content: "The Parrot Trainer" by Swain Wolfe is just plain awful. I kept reading, hoping it would get better but it didn't. The writing is ham-fisted and the story telling is clunky. The characters are simply a collection of badly written stereotypes and are shallow, predictable and uninteresting. The writer seems inordinately satisfied with the breadth of his own amazing intellect -- there's a know-it-all quality about the information he regurgitates onto the pages without much point and the writing swings wildly from pretentious to unbearably cutesy and cringe-making ...The only thing in this book that rings true is the lecherous/dirty old man way in which the author (not to be confused with the characters) seems to salivate over Willow, a character who spends the book [with few clothes on] and which made me want to wash my hands when I put this book down. ...