Title: Emperor's New Clothes, I'm afraid...
Product review: I eagerly anticipated reading this book - the testimonies from Orson Scott Card and Samuel Delany were candid and unambiguous- essentially stating "buy this book".This book is self indulgent and anonymous in its detail- period. No explanation as to how the circumstances arose, no explanation or insight into why or how the situation developed - despite this apparently being part of the books appeal.No general understanding of the human condition is conveyed - what race or armies of the world willingly ( by its actions) allows the atrocities Arslan ( the leader of the world, remember ) committed on the school stage for example. No, this is a shallow fantasy contrived by MJ Engh, who seeks through subliminal messages and euphamisms to assert the author's own troubled and rather singularly one dimensional thinking.One start out of five and the Emperors New Clothes for me...
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