The Casual Vacancy

[Kardan]

Finally got round to finishing it, and I thought it was a great book

Spoilers just incase you haven't finished it...

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I was surprised that there wasn't more focus on the election results, as the book built up towards it for so long, and I would have preferred if the book carried on for longer at the end, there were many things left unexplored. I also had a flash of inspiration that Fats' biological mother gave him away when she was 14, and refused to say who the father was, and Terri had two children taken away from her and she didn't know who the father was. And with the whole incest theme around Fats, that would fit nicely considering Fats and Krystal were getting it on. Of course, I then realised that Terri can't be the mother, because then Fats and Krystal wouldn't be in the same school year

I'd like to see some sort of sequel, and I'm looking forward to the BBC production of it next year

[Inseriousity.]

Finally got round to finishing it, and I thought it was a great book

Spoilers just incase you haven't finished it...

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I was surprised that there wasn't more focus on the election results, as the book built up towards it for so long, and I would have preferred if the book carried on for longer at the end, there were many things left unexplored. I also had a flash of inspiration that Fats' biological mother gave him away when she was 14, and refused to say who the father was, and Terri had two children taken away from her and she didn't know who the father was. And with the whole incest theme around Fats, that would fit nicely considering Fats and Krystal were getting it on. Of course, I then realised that Terri can't be the mother, because then Fats and Krystal wouldn't be in the same school year

I'd like to see some sort of sequel, and I'm looking forward to the BBC production of it next year

I'd have liked to see the results too but I think a big part of the book was that their obsession with politics was blinding them to human struggles so it could fit into that even if it does feel a bit unfinished lol