The plot is predictable and matter-of-fact. The novel has a stripped-down story line and limited character development.
Melanie Thorton, a campaign aide for presidential candidate John Hillman, who might as well be named John Kerry, decides to direct attention away from her affair with a married journalist and a Swift Boat veterans-like scandal by creating an imaginary sex scandal through a blog called Capitolette. It has its share of sex, but it also has something else: a protagonist who comes of age the good-old-fashioned way. Though neither book is complimentary to Washington politics, Cox's book is less risqu and more a behind-the-scenes look at the seamy not the steamy side of politics. The cover of Dog Days is red, white and blue with silhouettes of a donkey and an elephant. The cover of The Washingtonienne has cleavage ensconced in a lacy pink bra.
The jackets of the two novels tell volumes about what's between the covers literally and figuratively.
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