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So Many comparisons to Succession and it’s true! But I hate to say that my brain’s ability to drop the characters from THIS story into the fully formed universe of the TV show did a lot of the work that the author usually has to do themselves. I don’t think the book would be as good if I didn’t already have all the details of Succession in my brain and ready to fill in any gaps.

“The real sorrow of human life is that we feel. That’s our affliction. That’s why I wanted to walk for months on a trail through the woods. The world and its people are too much for me. I am crushed between empathy and impotence. I don’t think I’m important - not at all. In fact, I am embarrassingly insubstantial. Then why was I given this heart? It is so much more than I need.”