nilchance 's review for:

4.0

Very, very queer. Canon intersex, mpreg, polyamory, orgies! The book requires a lot of consulting the glossary in the back, but it's definitely worth it. Layers on layers of imagery and meaning. The story short-changes women, even with a character acknowledging that by creating only male Wraeththu they are leaving behind women, already a persecuted group. That total lack of women in a book that emphasizes the balance of male/female is a little squicky, to me, but it doesn't overshadow what is a basically good cult sci-fi epic.