Review: no mastery here
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2010
okay I don't know what the other 2 reviewers read but what I read was really crap.  It was wrong on so many levels it's hard to know where to start. Set in a slightly dystopian future,  most of the world population is gone,  and the world is divided into masters and pets.  So far,  so interesting.  However,  we get Jiri,  who is male,  but is completely female in all his characteristics, you could make him a woman and only change the pronouns and it would still work (or not)  So Jiri is beautiful, fragile, feminine, virginal and his lover is obsessed with his inexperience and jealous of any experience he may or may not have - which is such an old virginal set up,  and surely we've outgrown it. Then the entire plot momentum is about misunderstandings, which just grew old fast,  and Jiri bringing his mother's influence and good manners to the camp, civilizing the rough men etc...This is a wall banger for me,  I wouldn't recommned it to anyone and will never read it again.