There are lots of good books to read and write about it feels self-indulgent to dump on someone's work simply to seem clever. Having the opportunity to pan a book isn't a good reason. I'm glad I didn't review "The Painter" - if I had, that would mean that I finished it, and a few years ago I decided life was too short to waste any time reading books I didn't enjoy unless there was a very good reason to read them. I didn't like the protagonist, a burly, manly cigar-smoking artist, and didn't like the prose, which felt both clumsy and affected. It was because I did read Heller's "The Painter" and it put me off. I also get why I didn't read the the first book, Heller's "The River" (2019).
Now I understand why the author was vague about the traumas our hero had suffered before the events of the current story. I didn't know Peter Heller's "The Guide" was a sequel until doing a little fact-checking.
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