skygiants

RIGHT, that's what got me when Becca described this authorial approach! Like, as much as I hate BUCKLE UP TWITTER threads (and oh, do I hate them), I will grant them that at least they're making an assumption about their audience that may be based on an assessment of the OP's actual followers' tastes. For this... who do they think is going to be reading a book about the history of Roman murder, if not people who are interested in Roman social history??

(True crime podcast aficionados who are just here for the murder, I guess. But there are about a zillion other books they could read if they didn't want to get Roman social history along with all the murders -- and every true crime podcast aficionado I know is also a massive nerd, although to be fair most people I know are massive nerds -- so it still seems like a baffling conclusion to draw.)