Title: Not Even the Sexy Parts Can Save This Book
Product review: Plot, characterization, style, art, skill -- this book lacks it all! The characters are undifferientiated, and Heinlein's refusal to directly identify which character is speaking doesn't help. Then again, it doesn't matter, because aside from secondary sex characteristics, there is very little to distinguish them. Thank God all four characters aren't the same sex, or I would never be able to tell them apart. (Heinlein must have known this, because each chapter is named after the character who narrates it, and the chapter headings are printed at the top of every right hand page, for reference. Thanks for the hint, guy!)The pseudo-technical detail is maddening to wade through, what little plot the book has is dragged down by the constant annoying arguments and more annoying endearments the characters bandy about, and not even the sexy parts held my attention for long.
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