Author: Emily St John Mandel
Published: 2020
Rating: ★★★☆
Published: 2020
Rating: ★★★☆
A strange mixture of isolation (the titular hotel) and big money. Like Station Eleven predicted CV19, the big money Ponzi scheme plot almost predicts the cryptocurrency mania and collapse, though this is obviously heavily based on the real-life story of Bernie Madoff. It’s interesting to learn about high finance shenanigans, but the book overall is less satisfying than Station Eleven despite clever foreshadowing of the events and characters from that book being scattered throughout.