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And it only gets worse from there. As soon as she meets this man, who is, of course, gorgeous she's talking about her breasts and how a girl "always" needs a generous amount of bounce. Umm, what??? Then begins the constant thoughts of her jumping into bed with him. This all before page 124.
I'm sure there's probably a terrible sex scene at some point, and I was prepared to skip over it because the plot intrigued me. What I couldn't overlook was the protagonist's blatant bigotism. The protagonist is a Benefits Fraud Officer who delights in hunting down people receiving benefits and 'catching them in the act' because, of course, everyone on benefits is just scheming the government in some way. The way the protagonist's comments come across leaves me in no doubt of the author's political persuasion put it that way.
The final straw came on page 124 when snide remarks were made about an old woman, a total stranger, which the protagonist and her intellectual companion approached as part of their investigation. There was absolutely zero reason for the following description other than being callous:
" [...] although I had a hunch that she had been cursed with the kind of face that probably looked old in her teens. "
And let's not forget the follow up judgemental comment: "We’d interrupted her enjoying a rare pleasure: the thin, white book in her hand could have been a Mills & Boon. Or something that was fifty shades more fruity."
The author had already made a point of referring to the couple as "Enjoying their baby-boomer retirement, sucking the life out of the NHS and the government pension pots".
Yep. After all that I decided that as interesting as the plot was, I didn't have the stomach for more of the judgemental bollocks. I can get enough of that IRL, I don't need it in something I read for pleasure.… (mere)