Oh, excellent! I was kind of over the moon for both of those books; I hope you enjoy them too! Plus, Elliott's second book is coming out next January, so there will be more. :)
Exactly! If you want to write escapism where we just revel in the fantasy of having all the money, then write escapism!
Yes, I would have liked this so much better, because I wouldn't have been jarred out of the story every time it whipsawed between different levels of realism. And she explicitly says that she wrote the book as an antidote to the current political situation, which, sure. But my problem with the current political situation isn't which party's engaging in these self-enriching behaviors, it's that politicians engage at them at all. It just does not fit together well in a single book.
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Date: 2020-10-14 08:44 pm (UTC)Exactly! If you want to write escapism where we just revel in the fantasy of having all the money, then write escapism!
Yes, I would have liked this so much better, because I wouldn't have been jarred out of the story every time it whipsawed between different levels of realism. And she explicitly says that she wrote the book as an antidote to the current political situation, which, sure. But my problem with the current political situation isn't which party's engaging in these self-enriching behaviors, it's that politicians engage at them at all. It just does not fit together well in a single book.