Sometimes we just need to have fun.
Fade In is Kyle Mills unleashed—and exactly what we need right now
Good grief, the world is dark. I don't need to list the many ways we're being bombarded by horrors—you know them already.
And no matter how much you love your work, they call it work for a reason. Even if you happen to be joyfully reveling in breaking the rules via a disruptive startup, and even if you have the best colleagues in the world, and even if you get to work in service to the most delightful collection of artistic collaborators, that doesn't mean you don't need a break sometimes.
Or is it just me?
It's peak summer here, and so I'm here to recommend that for all our sakes, while we're busy trying to do good or do better, we don't forget to revel in what this season is made for. And by that I mean: don't forget to have fun.
Maybe like me you looked for some fun in a summer blockbuster. Popcorn in hand, ready to suspend all disbelief, I found myself settling in for what was supposed to be fun with the latest Mission: Impossible. Mistake. The plot and writing were so preposterously bad I wished I'd just taken a nap.
If you can't count on Hollywood for fun, what's the point?
And that's what brings me to my enthusiastic recommendation of a book going on sale today: Fade In by Kyle Mills.
Many of you know Kyle Mills as the nine-time #1 New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Mitch Rapp series, but he's back with his own antihero. This is Mills unleashed—exploring the dark intersections of tech, power, and politics through the eyes of a morally complex operative who makes his own rules.
This is the book that delivers the experience I was looking for in that movie theater. Villainous billionaires who've decided democracy is too slow to save us, and a complicated hero forced back into the game. Writing that flies. An ending that will make you actually laugh with the writer at its audacity.
So if you, too, feel you need a break from all the seriousness—just for a bit, just to restore you until you go back in there to fight again in the fall—my prescription for you is Fade In.
(And if you have your own recommendations for books or other entertainment that fit this same bill, please drop them in the comments!)
Happy summer reading.
Madeline
Sounds great! Can't wait to buy it and read it!