Starter Villain by John Scalzi

As a human that has worked in some portion of the financial industry for about twenty years, I have to start this off by saying that there were many, many concepts regarding how the financial world, especially relating to the 1% worked, I wished the general populace understood. On that level alone I'd have given this five stars. Anyone able to make some of the most mundane things regarding financial industry deserves the entire world. And in the vein I am seriously considering reaching out to Scalzi to rewrite our entire CE program because omfg it's so boring. Okay not really but oh did it cross my mind several times. 

Moving on. 

Honestly, this was surprisingly cozy for lack of a better term. I adored Charlie's wit and cool under pressure head. The fact that he only loses his shit once is amazing. I fist pumped when he saw through The Convocations "offer" for the scam that it was, which in all honesty allows him to be consistently a half a step ahead of them. That all of the Villains were treated as less evil and more bumbling, entitled, morons was the icing on the cake. 

I would be completely remiss, however, if I did not mention The Cats, who were amazing, but The Cetacean Association of America Chapters One and Two. The latter were the true heroes of this story. 

I 100% recommend this for so very many reasons but it was, at its heart, a really well done and simple conversation on some high level topics in terms of how money actually works at the higher levels.