Local Heavens by K.M. Fajardo
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I think I wanted to love this much more than I actually did.

But then, I blame my love of the original Gatsby for my somewhat lagging enjoyment of this.

Don't get me wrong. It's got a neat hacker subplot and it has standard SF trappings for this brave new world, so I should have just fallen straight in love with it. Perhaps. But this might just be a case of just enjoying the idea of the juxtaposition of two genres and not an actual "oh my god I just got torn apart by the conversation" like I was with Fitzgerald.

Instead, it's mostly all about sex and genteel betrayal. And not so much about class, new money, crime, or obsession. Although all those aspects are here.

I think I'll just say it's pretty faithful to the original even while it expands on it.

But to me, less really was more. Alas.

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