Too many twists, too much misery. I'm all for suspension of disbelief, but this is the book that made me sigh with fatigue: end it, already. Also, by this point, I'm exasperated with Hole's determination to be miserable for no reason. Here again, I'm all for moody detectives and dark places in the mind, but the relentless grind of self-loathing does have its limits, at least for me. Not enough humor to balance the onslaught of the protagonist's self hatred and that of almost every single other character in the book. And his mooning over Raquelle! I cant stand it for one more second, it's too pathetic. Everything together is too bleak.
All that said, I can't deny that I listened to all 22 hours or so (with frequent fast forwarding for the last 5 hours) because there are compelling sections and the writing is good. And I Iike the dark humor of the author giving his detective a name that, in English, is a play on words and we are forced to think of a hairy hole every time a character says his name. Which is often.