Women in The Book of Lost Things

I am feeling rather ill today, thanks to vertigo brought on by my TMJD. Therefore, I bring you a crosspost from my personal livejournal:

I would like to address one of my major problems with John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things by providing you with a list.

What kind of list? The kind that identifies and annotates the role of every single woman to appear in the pages of the novel.

Here you go:

( Spoilers for The Book of Lost Things, obviously... )

And that's it. I'm sure it wasn't intentional, but damn.