I’m reading Winter Tide

[feotakahari]

To explain why I find Trumbull such a profoundly boring character, I’d like to propose the Theory of Linking Fucks. In order for you to give a fuck about someone, they must give a fuck about someone or something. It doesn’t even have to be a thing that you give a fuck about, because the mere recognition of a shared capability of giving a fuck is enough to generate empathy. But Trumbull gives about as many fucks as a particularly mobile brick, and that makes it hard to have a reaction to her other than wishing she would go away.