Review: BREATHLESS NON-STOP ACTION...AND MORE
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2014
This extremely well-written book is set in an imagined future where the solar system has been colonized (the Great Solar Diaspora). Jonathan Harkon (scion of a royal family) lives incognito on one such station, Sanctity, a harsh, brutal environment rife with the sexual hypocrisy consequent upon fanatical religious prejudices. Life is portrayed in its unaccommodating, bare extremes, with some very sexy bar-ladies, abused women's bodies, and a succession of brilliantly-described, vicious fights and splattering body-parts, all set against the background of a twisted, bigoted society. Jonathan is thrown into a cycle of combat and imprisonment in his attempts to reveal the secrets of this priest-ridden society and save the woman he loves. Nonetheless, despite the zip of this great non-stop action (what I would call, the novel's superbly controlled breathlessness), and of course the delightful female flesh, the space habitat of Sanctity is also a satire on the present state of an ultra-capitalistic, religiously zealous and socially unequal US. Great stuff.