Mr. Justice Raffles Book

Guilty pleasure does not get any guiltier than this. The flow is pretty smooth here. Lescroart sure knows how to write believable characters with clear motivations. Plus, his books are just so much fun to read. A right amount of everything in them; equal part cynicism and hope.

Codicil: November 2020

Thursday, 19 November
International Men's Day 2020

Okay.

So, I was thinking about this book back in November, when I was watching Jojo Rabbit, then I saw that one of the dates was an International Men's Day that month. Witch. Which at first I thought was a joke, a jest even. Maybe satire, who knows? But no, that's a real day. Kinda redundant but whatever, and I canceled that whatever, so whatever. The thing is. No, listen. As bad as men are, Women are no better than them, really, who are you really, women are people, she's a person, not chattel. Patriarchy is well and alive, still a thing, sibilant, There. But Men tend to be the aggressor, women are usually their victims. So a day in March makes much more sense to me, To Me Ghost, than the one in November, for sure I don't like that Day, and how could I. For men came up with entire religions, made themselves the center of attention, the whole of their tiny universes, how do you spell insecurity, damn. So this day is a joke, not a very good one. I have heard better ones.

Anyway, on that day I found myself but thinking about one of the characters from this novel. Therefore, well not exactly on that auspicious day, but for that sacred day, I present to you the antagonist from this fine wine of a novel. In the vein of Kilgrave, seriously one of the most aggravating creatures in fiction. One of the vilest, bitchiest, gaslighting of all assholes. A personal villain who took everything a little too personally. That's who reminded me of on a day for men, that's who it made me think of. International Men's day, yikes, that's what I thought of that day, so good job. In any case. Women are not that great either. They just didn't get their chance to showcase their fall, they certainly didn't get or their due, we just didn't get to theirs yet. Instead, they got colonized by one of the dumbest creatures on God's green earth, Men.

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