Review: Great Writing...but I didn't know what I was getting into
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2012
This book was one of the recommendations that came up on Amazon. I'm assuming that was due to my interest in dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction. Sounded good in the synopsis. The cover art threw me off a little but I figured, what the heck, it's just a girl and a guy kissing.Yeah...not so much. I should have looked a little more closely at the two people kissing.This story was actually very good and fresh. A clean and fine riff on the dystopian world with enough truly unique twists to make even a technophile's heart leap with joy. So, for that, I really and truly enjoyed the book.What I didn't like and what cost it a whole star for my opinion was all the sex! It was flat dirty and far, far too descriptive to be labeled as mainstream fiction. It was like a porn book met a science fiction book and created offspring. And while I don't want this to imply in any way that I disapprove of homosexuality, because I don't and do believe it is entirely natural, this was all gay sex.So, while I may not disapprove, I do not in any way want to have a hundred pages of graphically detailed gay sex mixed in with my reading of a nice dystopian book. Others out there who are innocently looking for a nicely twisted future need to be warned that this is in there. I started skipping over those parts but because they were so pervasive, I know that I missed great little bits of the otherwise stellar writing by doing so.Again, for all those who are immediately hitting the Not Helpful button and silently screaming Homophobe at me, please take a breath and calm down. If this was straight sex in that much detail I'd be writing the same thing complaining about the anatomically detailed writing of straight sex.I would highly recommend that somewhere in the description of the book someone labels it as Sexually Explicit or something. Given the cover and jaunty description, this could have easily wound up in my teen's reading list. Luckily I had time to delete it before she got hold of it. I like this writer's talent, but now I am leery of any other titles since I can't be sure which ones are devoted to explicit sex and which are just excellent stories.