The Casual Vacancy

There is no you-know-who that the whole world should be afraid of, there is no single hero with boundless moral authority, there is no global issues that tells epic stories. Each and every character are the villains and the heroes of their own story (more or less) and their challenges, as small as they may be, are real and relatable.

It started out slow and stoppable until I was half-way in. I thank myself now that I persisted.