cewritespoems 's review for:

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

DID NOT FINISH: 21%

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This book is just jarringly sexist and once the narrator turns 16, I couldn’t read more than a page and a half before running into another description along the lines of undressing a woman is “like peeling a sweet potato on a winter’s night” or lengthy descriptions of breasts. At first I thought the author was just trying to characterize a few characters as womanizers… but every single man except one minor character in this novel can’t speak one sentence without objectifying every woman around them. I just want to read the actual mystery and the gothic elements but it’s impossible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness

Minor: Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Excrement