Review: Sibling Revelry
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2013
When animals breed, if they are closely related, the possibility of reinforcing undesirable recessive genes is greatly increased.  That's good for the gene  pool, so breeders tend to use inbreeding and line breeding to improve their herds, but when the individuals involved are human, those bad babies are unspeakably tragic.So incest is proscribed in virtually all human cultures.  When a child is molested by someone in a position of power and responsibility over the child, that's also called incest, and it, too, is often unspeakably tragic.In this story, though, we have adults who are step=brother and step-sister.  It's a guilty pleasure to fantasize about sex with a someone who you already know, love, and trust, with the spice of a taboo relationship ginning up the nerve endings as well.  It's a great-selling combination, which is why there are so many digests featuring incestuous love letters.This story makes heavy use of cyberchat transcripts.  This draws the reader into the story as no first-person (I) or third-person (he/she) storyteller can.  It's telling the story in the second-person (you).  Second-person point-of-view (POV)is quite rare in the dead-tree publishing world; editors reject books because it's extremely difficult to do well.Editors also reject most stories in which the point of view changes back and forth between first and third person, because transitions are hard to manage.  In "Imposter", it's as if the author ignores the change of POV.The editors are right when it comes to  this book. The author, pretty good in most regard should not try to fix this up; their talents would be better used in writing another book without this flaw.And, in fact, by clicking on the author's name above, I see that he's written quite a few others, and although I didn't remember his name, I recognize quite a few other titles from him as excellent reads.I would want to recommend this book as worthy of your time, despite this serious flaw, but if you are unfamiliar with this author, I'd recommend you explore other books by the same author, and read those first.