What's with Cosby and his obsessions with sharp enough to slice [insert food, preferably bread or cheese] looking things ??? (Especially a crease??? The jaw was cringey but at least it made sense ???)

The prose can be a little unbalanced, but is mostly nice to read. However, one more sharp description like that and I'm going to crash out.

I'm having such serious gripes with the writing in this book.

Here's the thing... there are some moments, lines or passages that resonate SO well, feeling deep and meaningful. Especially in Ike's POV moments, depictions of grief for his son, and the chasm between him and his wife, are written SO well.

But then... you have to look at the rest of the book. Most of the time, the writing is intensely flat and simple. He does this. He does that. He thinks about this. He feels that. He sees a note. There is a drawing on it. He takes the note. There are numbers under the drawing. And the moment more than one character is present, the first names get overused SO HARD, and it's noticeable because the author has such a simplistic writing style in most scenes.

HOWEVER, on the flipside of that, the author feels the need to pepper in SO MANY similies, often random, contradictory, or just plain ill-fitting. Might just be me, but I DOUBT the homophobic redneck would describe another man as "a tall glass of water". The big man walks like godzilla. Blood is smeared across his hand like Sanskrit. EXCUSE ME what.

The POV also switches between characters from one sentence to the next without significant paragraph or chapter breaks, feeling random rather than intentional.