haldoor's review against another edition
3.0
Great premise; terrible execution. The plot itself wasn't bad, but there was so much extraneous material about the main protagonist's view on things that often had no bearing on the story, I got quite annoyed. His arrogant Americanism also left a little to be desired as a non-American reader (eg: the description of a British socialist prime minister was frankly annoying and xenophobic to say the least and I'm not even British). It simply reinforced my opinion that many Americans are extremely insular and intolerant of other ways of living and made me think his character somehow thought he was superior to most others. He also read as extremely Mary-Sue, or whatever the male equivalent is, and in addition had no grasp of sex or much else from a woman's perspective.
Won't read the sequel, if it ever eventuates.
Won't read the sequel, if it ever eventuates.
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