Look, I sympathize. It is genuinely difficult to have your POV character be Totally Wrong about something in a way the audience can detect but he is completely unaware of, and have that work. But one of its failure modes is "your POV character is a blithering idiot," and I'm afraid that's how I felt in this instance.
It probably didn't help that everybody else in the novel was coming across as abrasive and unhelpful, too.
Sorry. I really wanted to like your book, but it just didn't work out.
It probably didn't help that everybody else in the novel was coming across as abrasive and unhelpful, too.
Sorry. I really wanted to like your book, but it just didn't work out.