joannerixon 's review for:

Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
2.0

Terrifically interesting premise, but Kress seems to lose track of what she's working with. By the second half of the book the story becomes thematically confused. It meanders through time and eventually trails off into formulaic, operatic, early-90s sci-fi. I would give it two and a half stars for creativity and a truly authentic-feeling main character, but must choose between two or three stars, and so will give it two.