![]() ![]() ![]() And the characters I found most intriguing seemed to show up and then go offstage for too long - whether that will correct itself in the rest of the series I don't know. There's a lot of gang-influence, pressures from old friends/lovers trying to re-awaken the old Riki, and some explanation of the class systems and social/biological limits on this society, but I found it more frustrating than intriguing for one thing, much of the prose seemed repetitive, with the same points being hammered on again and again. The main part of the story deals with Riki, formerly the "Charisma" of his street gang, returning after a long absence (presumably as the pet/sex-slave of the Man), and trying to fit in to a life that doesn't seem to interest him much anymore. Even when I began to get an idea of the timeline, from comments made by the main characters later on, it wasn't clear where the opening scene fit in, and while it wasn't important to the story, it nagged at me. But this seems to be a teaser for the series (this book is the first of, I believe, a six-book series), since there aren't any more sex scenes in this book, and while I think it's pretty clear who the Captive and the Man are, the events of that opening episode aren't referred to again. ![]() ![]() the book starts out very strongly, with a bound youth being tormented sexually by an icily beautiful man, neither of them named. ![]()
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