A review by rocketiza
New Moon by Ian McDonald

2.0

The author's ambition was way too much for their storytelling ability. I am seeing a lot of comparisons to Games of Thrones in other reviews, the difference being those are 700+ page long books that lay groundwork and build into a story, not a frantic ping ponging that tries to take short cuts and smash you over the head with this is the guy who is like this, this is the girl who does this without much subtlety. Then there's the horniness.. there's a section that has more pages about how a character masturbates than many of the more important actual story plot sections. In the end everything just ended up feeling shallow.