I just finished listening to this book on audio. If I had read it, I wouldn't have finished it. I did think I would stop several times but decided I wanted to find out what happened in the end. Yes, this book was written by a man and YES, you could tell. I was not impressed. The book was preachy and the idea that this was how someone would write in a journal is absurd. The characters were stereotypes which is a shame because the premise behind the story was the reason I picked up the book in the first place. It could have been so much more.