I'm done with this series. I'm so done I don't feel like writing a review so here are the notes I took while reading:

-Thought it would be less sexist after the whole "I have a hot new secretary and oh look she's actually good at being a detective" thing wore off but it actually got worse
-All the men, except the main character, except actually including him, are assholes and the women just put up with them
-"Most women would have expected flowers." "I'm not most women." "I know."
-Disabled character used as prop
-Masturbatory plot about writers and publishing that wouldn't get nearly as much press as it does in the book
-Rich beautiful women constantly turning into desperate idiots and throwing themselves at MC despite him being described as not handsome or rich
-MC uses a woman who really likes him to get access to witnesses, sleeps with her, then ghosts her
-"Pubelike hair"
-hysterical trans character, MC keeps referring to her as pre op and assuming she wants an operation, blames her hysteria on all the hormones she must be taking, threatens her with prison rape "You wouldn't like prison. Especially pre-operation."

This book was just gross. It doubled down on all the sexism of the first book and threw in some transphobia and ableism. Oh and the mystery was dumb.