A review by cade
New Moon by Ian McDonald

1.0

While there were some exciting and interesting moments in this book, there are several problems. There is a silly amount of detail about what people wear. There is a lot of "prequel" material thrown in huge chunks of storytelling that does not really bear on the actual contemporary actions of this story. However, the real reason for the one star rating is that this book has too much smut. There is gratuitous sex and it is gratuitously non-traditional ("polysexual" people in "polyamorous" relationships). It makes any actual "drama" hard to take seriously, and it ruined any potential this book may have had.