Shadow Man

I went into this book with a lot of anticipation. I have not been a fan of Melissa Scott's works so far, but "Shadow Man" won a Lambda Literary award and is in the Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of fame. As of this writing, she's won four of the former award, two of the latter. She seems to be the darling of the LGBTQ literary award circuit. I thought this book would be different. It's about a planet with five sexes and nine sexualities, which was really intriguing. Well, the author pulled off the world-building really well, but the execution of the story was terrible. It was a slog to get through. It was only three hundred pages long and nothing happens for the first two hundred. But by the last third I was only barely interested. I figure this book won its accolades for the concept, because the plot has a lot to be desired.

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