The End of the Day

This one's a reread. I have loved everything written under the name Claire North, and if I get a chance to read the author's other works under her own name, I'm willing to bet I'll love them too.

It's fascinating reading this one working a retail job. Anyone who has will understand that by about half an hour into any given shift, I hate all people always and forever, the whole species is irredeemable. And I love Charlie just going through everything with this curiosity and fascination with people. For a bit after reading, it's not that I like people that much more, but that I'm full of the understanding that people are fascinating and complicated and, yeah, exhausting and terrible on a regular basis, but isn't it amazing to see other people existing.

It has to be good writing if it's giving a retail employee during a pandemic a measure of faith in humanity.