Title: Distressingly Anticlimactic, Needlessly Opaque...
Product review: ..and slow as molasses. The jargony, overwrought prose of this debut novel might fool some of the people, but when you strip away the words that hang like too-ripe grapes, one sees that there is, in effect, no real plot. The Golden Age is vista after vista of astonishing sights and as vast as the ocean...if the ocean were about knee-deep. I kept thinking to myself, as I slogged my way through the first hundred pages - "Tanith Lee already wrote this story twenty years ago, and she did it much better." (Don't Bite The Sun, Daw Books)I found this novel an unfinishable disappointment.
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