sue_mcneill_bindon 's review for:

The Handyman Method by Andrew F. Sullivan, Nick Cutter

2.0

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I wanted to love this book! But I really didn’t. It was a book that had one good twist with a whole lot of miserable people doing miserable things while being miserably mired in a house trying to consume them. There isn’t a single thing to like about Trent or Hector or Asscrack Al/Ned or “Handyman Hank” or any other male character in the book. The misogyny and beta-male bashing are so obvious and clunky and nothing clever comes of it. Rita certainly doesn’t escape the ham-fisted gender stereotyping though very little in her characterization makes her two big choices make sense to me. Houses with evil beneath/in them are usually a solid hit for me, and the generational trauma we find out about is the one twist I “enjoyed” but it was too damn little too late.