Mike Finn’s Reviews > Dread Journey > Status Update

I’m startled by how sophisticated and contemporary this feels. It reads like a post-Me-Too novel in its undertanding and acceptance of the exploitative misogyny of Hollywood. The observations are acute. The people feel real. Ubiquitous poverty sets the context for the obsecenly large movie business salaries. The train porter, who would have been mostly invisible in a Christie novel is a well-rounded character.