Nicole Abadie

And even though we don't know it, and maybe the narrator doesn't know it at the time, we're witnessing an essential moment in his life when...

over the course of this summer, the narrative of his life changes, his friendships change.

It's very much sort of a relationship novel.

It's a novel where not a lot happens on the page, but a lot happens sort of between the lines on the page, between the words, I suppose.

Oh my goodness, yes.

I have read the new Michael Connolly book, Fair Warning, which is the third book in the Jack McAvoy series about a former LA Times journalist.

And again, this is about Jack tracking down a serial killer.

And again, it's sort of pitch perfect Michael Connolly, super suspenseful, a real page turner.

It's Michael Connolly in top form.

It comes out next week.

And frankly, yeah, you won't read a better crime novel this year.

Kate must be in knots about that.

Thank you.

It was amazing.

Thank you.

Kate, I think that the best way to describe this book is that it's the unsexiest book ever about sex.

There's a lot of sex in it that's not very erotic.

There is.

Adele, the lead character, is a sex addict who doesn't actually enjoy sex.

As you've hinted, she is, I think, a very unlikable protagonist and that does raise this issue about whether you judge the literary merit of a book by the likability of the protagonist.