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Title: A bunch of stuff, with scattered good things
Review: One damn thing after another happens to Fitz, fifteen years after the end of his previous adventures. Neat low-tech survival details followed by romance-novel gushiness seemingly designed to pre-empt the slash writers, some court intrigue, action scene, action scene, character self-torture, action scene. Dangers pile further and further on Fitz, but the whole thing is past-tense, so you know something amazingly convenient is going to get ratcheted in place just in time....On the plus side, you no longer want to throttle the main character for his endless tortured internal conflicts---there's a _new_ character who's _worse_. Also, what could have been a simple Good Guys/Bad Guys scenario is nicely complicated (here's a hint: what if ACT UP turned really nasty).If you have a lot of free time, this is less of a waste of it than your second hour of web surfing, but more than your first.
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