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A review by annabunce
Love Addict: Confessions of a Serial Dater by Koren Shadmi
1.0
Warning: Spoilers
Not a fan. This book made me feel a combination of sad and icky in regard to the main character. He descends into this greedy sex addict with little regard for women, treating them like objects meant for his visual and physical enjoyment (although to be fair he seems to view women as things and not people right from the outset of the book so perhaps he didn't have far to descend) When the main character (Who is the author?!) commits sexual assault the book treats the incident so poorly. He has a brief moment of recognizing he's become a monster but there is no real recourse. No apology to the woman, no seeking of help, nothing beyond a very brief hard(ish) look in the mirror. Instead, the author/main character takes the incident to mean he's ready to commit to a relationship with the one girl from the sexual smorgasbord he'd been sampling that he seemed to click with. What a lucky woman.
This book does a terrible job of engaging with mental health, sexual assault, and even dating in any productive (or even critical) manner. It's intellectually lazy writing that, if the author really is like the main character he's styled after himself, we shouldn't be surprised by.
As other reviewers have said the title "Love Addict" is a misnomer. There's no love here.
Not a fan. This book made me feel a combination of sad and icky in regard to the main character. He descends into this greedy sex addict with little regard for women, treating them like objects meant for his visual and physical enjoyment (although to be fair he seems to view women as things and not people right from the outset of the book so perhaps he didn't have far to descend) When the main character (Who is the author?!) commits sexual assault the book treats the incident so poorly. He has a brief moment of recognizing he's become a monster but there is no real recourse. No apology to the woman, no seeking of help, nothing beyond a very brief hard(ish) look in the mirror. Instead, the author/main character takes the incident to mean he's ready to commit to a relationship with the one girl from the sexual smorgasbord he'd been sampling that he seemed to click with. What a lucky woman.
This book does a terrible job of engaging with mental health, sexual assault, and even dating in any productive (or even critical) manner. It's intellectually lazy writing that, if the author really is like the main character he's styled after himself, we shouldn't be surprised by.
As other reviewers have said the title "Love Addict" is a misnomer. There's no love here.