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kaseyd's review
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
The world created in the first book had potential to be really interesting. Unfortunately Constantine totally squandered it. This series just eliminates the need for women, insulting and belittling them even within the hermaphroditic Wraeththu. Every main character Constantine chooses is interesting for one reason and boring for a million others. They do nothing, everything is done to or for them. Both books were just two har discovering what sex is and having a lot of it while pining over beautiful people and being pushed around by other characters who drive everything yet are not focused on. I fell asleep multiple times reading this. I am not going to read the third book despite already owning it. Yawn.
graysen's review
5.0
I think I like this book even more than the previous one; it's darker and packed with steamy passion. Constantine's knack for character development really shines through with her story of Swift; which follows his progression from innocent harling to mature har as he experiences the world outside of his haven - We Dwell in Forever.
carrionkid's review
3.5
A good followup to the first book, and interesting to see the species move further from humanity and try to find its own place in the world.
Content Warnings
Graphic: War, Blood, Death, Body horror, Drug use, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Torture
lijadora's review
4.0
This one took me k longer to read than the previous one. It follows a character that has a short appearance in book one - a hermaphrodite born of other hermaphrodites, son of a leader of a tribe.
There's emphasis on development of relationship and characters - who are often complex, ambiguous.
There's emphasis on development of relationship and characters - who are often complex, ambiguous.
aliciagg's review
5.0
This might be my favorite out of the 3 first Wraeththu books.
The story is written from Swift's innocent point of view and it is too adorable!
You get to know the old characters better and knowing the new ones is fascinating.
The story is written from Swift's innocent point of view and it is too adorable!
You get to know the old characters better and knowing the new ones is fascinating.
expendablemudge's review
3.0
Rating: 3* of five
Wraeththu burst onto the barren LGBT science fiction scene in the late 1980s with a blaze of attention. It was unique! Hermaphroditic men who fucked each other and made babies (somehow, I never really got with that part of the program)! They look like human men because they were human men until It Happened.
And now that we're past the initial shock of how the Wraeththu change human men into themselves, the story moves ahead to some very political territory that I liked.
Wraeththu burst onto the barren LGBT science fiction scene in the late 1980s with a blaze of attention. It was unique! Hermaphroditic men who fucked each other and made babies (somehow, I never really got with that part of the program)! They look like human men because they were human men until It Happened.
And now that we're past the initial shock of how the Wraeththu change human men into themselves, the story moves ahead to some very political territory that I liked.
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