It's a flawed book. I had thought the book would be about the women who were brave enough to speak out against Harvey Weinstein, but Catch and Kill is not exactly that. Instead, it's a first-person account of what it was like to try to report on Weinstein. There is a lot of information about the sinister networks of power that facilitate or encourage abuse and sexual violence, and then suppress the voices of victims from ever being heard. But there's also a ton of inside-baseball discussion about how stories live or die in newsrooms, plus a ton of insights about how the NBC newsroom operates.

The book comes alive when Farrow takes a step back, removes himself as the center of the story, and simply reports what happened. In turn, the book becomes mildly annoying when Farrow assumes center-stage, and makes it all about him. This problem is even more apparent in the audiobook, which Farrow narrates, and often slips into funny accents, lisps and vocal fry in order to somehow portray whoever is speaking. It doesn't work and is practically a deal-breaker when listening to the book.

Still, it's a riveting story, and the final third of the book motors along like a freight-train. It's a thrilling ride, but also a guilty pleasure, since our enjoyment is based to some extent on the very terrible things that were done to a great many women, many of whom in the book are not given very much space in the book to be portrayed as anything other than victims.