The Sardonyx Net by Elizabeth A. Lynn Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Sardonyx Net
Book Review: Not a gay book, but a great one!
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this book thinking, it has great reviews, it's science fiction, and it has gay characters; exactly what I was looking for. From the tags this book looks to be overflowing with gay storylines. Well to my disappointment, it was not. There is one sadist character that likes men(sometimes). His scenes are few and neither graphic sexually or sadistically. While I kept waiting for the all the "gay stuff" to appear, I genuinely got caught up in her storytelling. The author is excellent at world building as well as character developement. Interesting and well paced, this was a fun read. I enjoyed it greatly. With her talent, I'm definitely going to look into her other books.Book Review: Why doesn't she write more sci-fi?!
Summary: 5 Stars
This story is old (I think I was just a little kid when it was first published) but it sure doesn't seem like it. This futuristic tale is still futuristic, not dated in the least, and that's a timelessness that all storytellers should strive for. The basic premise of the book, drug enhanced slavery, is okay, but it's so much thin air without the involvement of the characters, my favorites being Dana and that sado-masochistic, pain/fun lovin' villian you love to hate to love, Zed Yago. The deep-space-faring hypers are so cool, it makes you want to dress up (or down) in leather and mesh, toss some glitter in your hair and cruise down to your neighborhood space bar. What gets me is that the only sci-fi Elizabeth A. Lynn has written is this book and "A Different Light." Of the handful of books she's written at all over the past 25 years, most of them are fantasy. I have no problem with fantasy, most of the books I own are of the genre, but her hip, stylish brand of science-fiction is one that I can get into, one that isn't so glaringly technical that my eyes roll back into my head, one that doesn't sacrifice story and style to teach you how to go about building a warp drive. Her two sci-fi stories are connected in many ways, and seem to take place in the same universe, with the sub-space highway of the Hyper being part of both. She could build on this if she wanted to, and if she does, I'll be there with glitter and eyeliner.