Lilibet Bombshell's Reviews > High Times in the Low Parliament

I honestly don’t know what I just read, but I do know I didn’t enjoy it and didn’t get the point of it. I don’t even know for sure if there was a point.

“High Times in the Low Parliament” reads like a genre mashup of political satire, fantasy, and drug-fueled fairy tale. It’s a novella, so it’s not like the story itself is a hefty tome to take on for a bit of light reading, but at the same time I like anything I’m reading (even novellas) to at least have a point or to have a message of some sort I can take away with me to let my brain chew on for a while. Neither of these things happened with this story and it left me with that awful feeling of having wasted my time when I could’ve been reading something else that would’ve fulfilled me and really commanded my attention.

If you like LGBTQIA+ short stories way off the beaten track, then you may enjoy this little diversion from the real world. It just wasn’t for me.

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