Just finished reading this book.
I have to confess, I chose it for its title. Who could resist that catchy hook and the doughnuts?
A good read – I couldn’t put it down – but not a great book.
Things I liked:
The opening premise, the view of LA life, the relentless pace, the many different interwoven strands, the page-turning hooks.
Things I didn’t like:
Although told as a first person narrative, there was little opportunity to understand the thought process of the narrator. I wanted to believe in this lonely, control freak of a man, but I realised from the narrative voice, a few chapters in, that the author was a woman.
Things just seemed to happen to him and he suffered from many significant external events – each one would have caused his life to change anyway. There were too many unexplained teasers, and unresolved plot arcs, by the time we reached an unsatisfactorily disconnected ending.
Ruthless Readings 