Alas, I'm afraid I found the writing workmanlike at best, her characters only cursorily sketched out and the plot plodding. An opinion only confirmed when I read the Kushner directly afterward. Kushner's prose sparkles, her plotting is ingenious and her characters, even the minor ones, are fully formed flesh and blood.
Plus, Kushner knows how to make a novel seriously slashy. With Point of Hopes if I hadn't known that the main characters were meant to be a) Bodie and Doyle and b) ended up involved in the second novel I wouldn't have even noticed the slim threads of attraction between them. In Kushner's novels (both The Privilege of the Sword and the earlier Swordspoint) there is absolutely no chance of not noticing how deep the love between Alec and Richard goes.
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Date: 2006-12-27 02:18 pm (UTC)Plus, Kushner knows how to make a novel seriously slashy. With Point of Hopes if I hadn't known that the main characters were meant to be a) Bodie and Doyle and b) ended up involved in the second novel I wouldn't have even noticed the slim threads of attraction between them. In Kushner's novels (both The Privilege of the Sword and the earlier Swordspoint) there is absolutely no chance of not noticing how deep the love between Alec and Richard goes.