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Aquamarine
"The master of gay thrillers ... Mel Keegan's name is a byword for thrilling gay adventure in the past, present and future." - Millivres. AQUAMARINE is set in the late 21st Century when major land masses have been submerged by rising oceans and the Earth is a world of water. Russell is a hydrologist, based on the great floating city of Pacifica. Eric is one of fifty Aquarians, a new sub-species of human who can breathe underwater. When the pair refuse an attractive offer for Eric's services on a suspicious salvage, Eric is kidnapped and a fast-paced intrigue unfolds on the "acorn principle" ... a small event turns out to be the key to a major war which would involve the whole Pacifica region.
326 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2000
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About the author
Mel Keegan
51 books69 followersA self-confessed science fiction and fantasy devotee, Keegan is known for novels across a wide range of subjects, from the historical to the future action-adventure. Mel lives in South Australia with an eccentric family and a variety of pets.
Every Mel Keegan book is strong on gay or bisexual heroes (also, often, on gay villains), and some of these heroes are the most delicious in fiction: Jarrat and Stone from the NARC series, Bill Ryan and Jim Hale from The Deceivers, Neil Travers and Curtis Marin from Hellgate, and many more unforgettable characters. Because Mel's books feature the same sex relationships, the partnership at the core of each book is integral: this is the relationship driving the story, and it can be very powerful indeed.
Every Mel Keegan book is strong on gay or bisexual heroes (also, often, on gay villains), and some of these heroes are the most delicious in fiction: Jarrat and Stone from the NARC series, Bill Ryan and Jim Hale from The Deceivers, Neil Travers and Curtis Marin from Hellgate, and many more unforgettable characters. Because Mel's books feature the same sex relationships, the partnership at the core of each book is integral: this is the relationship driving the story, and it can be very powerful indeed.
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March 21, 2013
I'm fucking angry right now
Very fucking angry
Evidence ONE
"Nope. My busy schedule isn't want it used to be"
Evidence TWO
"Times were, Russell had read, when the hardest task facing people was the disposal of the dead"
.
THAT'S why I'm fucking angry??
NO, not all nonsense that EDITING would solve. I read worst. It's the fact this fucking book has to editing at all and it COST ME 10 dollars! YEAH! FUCK!!!!
10$ dollars!!!! For a crap full of errors, errors that can even be a problem if you want to understand the story!
I want to know about the Aquamarine and the Human... I really want to know. But I'm fucking angry for the waste of money, so giving up.
Sorry for all the "fucks" but it really angry me a lot... I got MANY smashwords books, and I LOVE to discover books from indie writers. Like Ann Somerville, Rose Christo (and the amazing Gives Light series!) etc. I get many from smashwords and NEVER got a crap like this book paying 10$!!!!!!
So, learn from my mistake, dear reader of this review. Don't spend 10$ for this book... Or do it, knowing the story is good, but the writing atrocious!
Giving up... 40% read (who knows how many more typos and lack of editing I missed! But yeah.. Just give up... And said FUCK looking by credit card invoice for this fuck waste of money!)
Very fucking angry
Evidence ONE
"Nope. My busy schedule isn't want it used to be"
Evidence TWO
"Times were, Russell had read, when the hardest task facing people was the disposal of the dead"
.
THAT'S why I'm fucking angry??
NO, not all nonsense that EDITING would solve. I read worst. It's the fact this fucking book has to editing at all and it COST ME 10 dollars! YEAH! FUCK!!!!
10$ dollars!!!! For a crap full of errors, errors that can even be a problem if you want to understand the story!
I want to know about the Aquamarine and the Human... I really want to know. But I'm fucking angry for the waste of money, so giving up.
Sorry for all the "fucks" but it really angry me a lot... I got MANY smashwords books, and I LOVE to discover books from indie writers. Like Ann Somerville, Rose Christo (and the amazing Gives Light series!) etc. I get many from smashwords and NEVER got a crap like this book paying 10$!!!!!!
So, learn from my mistake, dear reader of this review. Don't spend 10$ for this book... Or do it, knowing the story is good, but the writing atrocious!
Giving up... 40% read (who knows how many more typos and lack of editing I missed! But yeah.. Just give up... And said FUCK looking by credit card invoice for this fuck waste of money!)
November 15, 2020
I've read this book before, at least once. I've read other Keegan books in the past and quite enjoyed them, albeit that they're very often pornography with a plot, which is fine, and they are more than a little ridiculous.
This book... What the hell happened? Firstly, this book, while set in (at a guess) the 2190's, could not be more "of the 1990's" if it tried. The technology, the very 90's view of climate change, the slightly ham-fisted references to 90's era gay rights as "the past". It's just all so... 90's.
Which is fine, sometimes you try real hard for a future vibe and all you end up doing is very much grounding your book in your current reality, and I could have chuckled at that... "oh bless, he thinks DVDs will be the ultimate in media storage devices in 100 years".
Clearly Keegan did a lot of research, climate change research, oceanographic research... or at the very least, he did enough reading in order to do a lot of world building. A LOT of world building. Because in almost every other sentence he's derailing the current moment or emotion or action beat to cram yet another little nugget of his world down the reader's throat. A lot of which is slightly more interesting that the plot, but also, completely not appropriate for that moment.
There were so many instances were I was so distracted that I forgot where the fuck we'd been and what we'd been doing before the segue. For example, he mentions a very large ship looking like a mountain range, and then spends the next half of the page talking about mountains and what happened when the seas rose and things that have exactly 0% to do with what's actually going on in that scene. Which, may I remind you, ISN'T actually about a mountain. He segued on a simile or possibly a metaphor.
Even a scene at the end which is supposed to be about loss and grief gets detailed so that he can crowbar in the fairly fucking obvious idea that people who worship religions other than Christianity are now spread far and wide because the world got wetter and people went everywhere. Dude, by this point in the narrative, if we didn't fucking get that, you have bigger problems.
And in one chapter he cuts from a cliffhanger of one character running into an armed goon to the other character, then when he switches back the instant moment has already happened and everything gets mentioned in past tense or memory. I think. I read that passage more than once, and kinda lost the will to live part way through. It's doubly bad because I didn't even realise one of the characters had died the first time it's mentioned, because of a storybeat laid in earlier about her being claustrophobic, so it sounds like she'd just freaked out because of that. And yes, that's a spoiler, and no, I don't fucking care.
Add to that the fact that he repeats himself. Or contradicts himself. Or in repeating himself, contradicts himself. I can't think of a specific instance right now, I just remember thinking it more than once. You said that already a different way not half a page ago... and now the character that was just thinking about a thing claims to have no knowledge of it... so was that not their point of view, was that just reader only information? Argh.
I don't know if the blame for the last issue lies with Keegan or the editors over at Gay Men's Press... but there are SO MANY typos. Or words that are actually correct words, but not the right word in that sentence. Plus at least one instance of a new paragraph starting in the middle of a sentence, and what should possibly have been a new paragraph but instead was a long blank space between sentences.
The sex scenes are, in general, not sexy in the least... which is possibly 50% a Keegan writing in this book problem and 50% a me in 2020 problem. But he does gloss over male rape and/or attempted male rape fairly lightly more than once though, and yes, while I understand that "non-consensual sex" has been an element of gay men's pornography for a very long time, in 2020 it just doesn't feel like it should even be there. Because he's not making it "sexy", but he's also not making it traumatic, he feels, more than anything, to be making it a punchline or a non-event. I just know that when it got brought up, I didn't like it.
Finally, Keegan seems to have a weird obsession with a dolphin sex metaphor in this book. Like dolphins get brought up during the sex scenes on a freakishly regular basis. Or dolphin metaphors at the very least... "rode him like a wild porpoise", "the plunging rhythm, so near to the swim cycle of the dolphin", which is followed by a whole paragraph talking about how watching dolphins and orcas swim turned people on. Nope, nope, nope-itty nope.... No thank you sir.
Oh and, while not a dolphin, this is possibly the most unsexy sentence ever committed to paper...
"...Eric plunged into him like a seal diving into the ocean..."
Thanks, I hate it.
And legitimately, this book is not going back on my bookshelf.
This book... What the hell happened? Firstly, this book, while set in (at a guess) the 2190's, could not be more "of the 1990's" if it tried. The technology, the very 90's view of climate change, the slightly ham-fisted references to 90's era gay rights as "the past". It's just all so... 90's.
Which is fine, sometimes you try real hard for a future vibe and all you end up doing is very much grounding your book in your current reality, and I could have chuckled at that... "oh bless, he thinks DVDs will be the ultimate in media storage devices in 100 years".
Clearly Keegan did a lot of research, climate change research, oceanographic research... or at the very least, he did enough reading in order to do a lot of world building. A LOT of world building. Because in almost every other sentence he's derailing the current moment or emotion or action beat to cram yet another little nugget of his world down the reader's throat. A lot of which is slightly more interesting that the plot, but also, completely not appropriate for that moment.
There were so many instances were I was so distracted that I forgot where the fuck we'd been and what we'd been doing before the segue. For example, he mentions a very large ship looking like a mountain range, and then spends the next half of the page talking about mountains and what happened when the seas rose and things that have exactly 0% to do with what's actually going on in that scene. Which, may I remind you, ISN'T actually about a mountain. He segued on a simile or possibly a metaphor.
Even a scene at the end which is supposed to be about loss and grief gets detailed so that he can crowbar in the fairly fucking obvious idea that people who worship religions other than Christianity are now spread far and wide because the world got wetter and people went everywhere. Dude, by this point in the narrative, if we didn't fucking get that, you have bigger problems.
And in one chapter he cuts from a cliffhanger of one character running into an armed goon to the other character, then when he switches back the instant moment has already happened and everything gets mentioned in past tense or memory. I think. I read that passage more than once, and kinda lost the will to live part way through. It's doubly bad because I didn't even realise one of the characters had died the first time it's mentioned, because of a storybeat laid in earlier about her being claustrophobic, so it sounds like she'd just freaked out because of that. And yes, that's a spoiler, and no, I don't fucking care.
Add to that the fact that he repeats himself. Or contradicts himself. Or in repeating himself, contradicts himself. I can't think of a specific instance right now, I just remember thinking it more than once. You said that already a different way not half a page ago... and now the character that was just thinking about a thing claims to have no knowledge of it... so was that not their point of view, was that just reader only information? Argh.
I don't know if the blame for the last issue lies with Keegan or the editors over at Gay Men's Press... but there are SO MANY typos. Or words that are actually correct words, but not the right word in that sentence. Plus at least one instance of a new paragraph starting in the middle of a sentence, and what should possibly have been a new paragraph but instead was a long blank space between sentences.
The sex scenes are, in general, not sexy in the least... which is possibly 50% a Keegan writing in this book problem and 50% a me in 2020 problem. But he does gloss over male rape and/or attempted male rape fairly lightly more than once though, and yes, while I understand that "non-consensual sex" has been an element of gay men's pornography for a very long time, in 2020 it just doesn't feel like it should even be there. Because he's not making it "sexy", but he's also not making it traumatic, he feels, more than anything, to be making it a punchline or a non-event. I just know that when it got brought up, I didn't like it.
Finally, Keegan seems to have a weird obsession with a dolphin sex metaphor in this book. Like dolphins get brought up during the sex scenes on a freakishly regular basis. Or dolphin metaphors at the very least... "rode him like a wild porpoise", "the plunging rhythm, so near to the swim cycle of the dolphin", which is followed by a whole paragraph talking about how watching dolphins and orcas swim turned people on. Nope, nope, nope-itty nope.... No thank you sir.
Oh and, while not a dolphin, this is possibly the most unsexy sentence ever committed to paper...
"...Eric plunged into him like a seal diving into the ocean..."
Thanks, I hate it.
And legitimately, this book is not going back on my bookshelf.
September 12, 2022
more of a 3.5 stars
Sooo… this was an interesting book but I had trouble with parts of it. First, it was repetitive; the same information was given out as if we didn’t already learn it in the last chapter. There were strange word choices, ie throve instead of thrived, smelt instead of smelled.
The idea of the aquarians was cool and there was a lot of thought put into it. The world flooding and the comet are all things we fear and this was an interesting take on the fallout from those disasters.
Somethings didn’t make sense to in this world though. With land at a premium I can’t see them having a basketball league as courts would take up valuable space. Some items held value that I wouldn’t expect people would still care about.
All that being said, I did enjoy it.
Sooo… this was an interesting book but I had trouble with parts of it. First, it was repetitive; the same information was given out as if we didn’t already learn it in the last chapter. There were strange word choices, ie throve instead of thrived, smelt instead of smelled.
The idea of the aquarians was cool and there was a lot of thought put into it. The world flooding and the comet are all things we fear and this was an interesting take on the fallout from those disasters.
Somethings didn’t make sense to in this world though. With land at a premium I can’t see them having a basketball league as courts would take up valuable space. Some items held value that I wouldn’t expect people would still care about.
All that being said, I did enjoy it.
December 15, 2017
I don't know if it was that I read an older paperback copy or what but there were a great many easily spotted errors in the book.
Also, it felt like it should be a two-parter or two short novellas the book went in a completely different direction at the midway point.
The first half was great.
The second half was boring and tedious. Not that the events of the second half wouldn't normally be exciting but pretty much every character that showed up at that point was a cardboard cut out that disappeared from the story as soon as it was done with them.
Also, it felt like it should be a two-parter or two short novellas the book went in a completely different direction at the midway point.
The first half was great.
The second half was boring and tedious. Not that the events of the second half wouldn't normally be exciting but pretty much every character that showed up at that point was a cardboard cut out that disappeared from the story as soon as it was done with them.
April 7, 2015
Good classic Keegan book. For reference I'm a Keegan fanatic with 19 of his books under my belt and three more purchased to read. The science fiction was sound, the characters were all real and believable. The plot logic broke down during the climax, I kept asking Why?Why? Why? Actions didn't make much sense to me.
A lot of actions were taken just to make the story, without a purposeful, logical reason for the action
A lot of actions were taken just to make the story, without a purposeful, logical reason for the action
April 6, 2012
It’s been a while since I read any of Mel Keegan’s work, but Aquamarine is everything I expect from him. There are two likable guys in love, action, adventure, a little sex, mystery and intrigue. This isn’t great literature, it’s more like classic pulp fiction, but Keegan is a good example of why that style of writing remains so popular. Aquamarine is quite a nice little read, despite a number typos.
You can find the complete review of Aquamarine by Mel Keegan at my web site.
You can find the complete review of Aquamarine by Mel Keegan at my web site.
February 16, 2015
I enjoyed Aquamarine, and, as I do not read much in the sci-fi genre, this was an interesting take on the future. Unfortunately, the book was barely edited, which pulled me out of the life world the author was trying to create. Had my enjoyment not been interrupted by the editing and sometimes choppy prose, this would have been a four-star book.
July 17, 2011
Typical Mel Keegan; this time thinly-disguised gay Bodie and Doyle are a marine scientist and his genetically-altered partner caught up in political upheaval in a post-apocalypse-by-global-warming-and-comet 21st century. Fun as ever; rather less sex than usual, though.
March 23, 2010
3.5 stars
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November 2, 2010The GLBT Bookshelf (http://bookworld.editme.com/GLBT-Rumm...) is holding a rummage sale to support the wiki. I picked this up there, plus a bunch of free stuff. Go check it out!
September 11, 2011
It's Shallow as Hell, but reading it was fun as heck too.
July 6, 2019
A fantastic read - one of my favourites.
August 28, 2018
First: get the DreamCraft edition, NOT the old Millvres paperback!
What a joy this edition is: it's only the second time Aquamarine has been printed, and the DreamCraft edition is so far superior to the old edition put out the Millivres Publishing Group, you will be astounded.
Quite a story is attached to the old edition. I don't want to type it in here ... too tired, and besides, Keegan told the story better than I'd be telling it. So I'll save time and paste in the relevant bit from a page on a website so old, it's been offline for a decade:
AQUAMARINE is once again MK's property, since the rights have 'passed back to the author.' This is tremendous news for DreamCraft, and also for readers who either haven't been able to find a copy of AQUAMARINE (it's been hard to track down recently), or ... readers who have been driven bananas since 2000, by the 'tatty' presentation of the MPG issue. If you've read the 'Keegan Speaks' page, you'll know that 'things went haywire' at the pre-press stage.
The book was never proof-read! MPG went to press off the 'raw' files which Mel had emailed from Fairbanks, Alaska. Now, normally a book will be proofread four or six times before being published. (At DreamCraft, all books are proofed five times by humans and twice electronically.) This means very few errors get through. No book is error free, but you can get close, and we do. For seven years, readers have loved AQUAMARINE even though they've had to grit their teeth to get through the typing hiccups ... they can't be called 'proofing errors,' because the book wasn't proofed! So we've invited MK to go back to the 'raw' files, the exact, same files that were emailed from Fairbanks, and not only will they be properly proofed by DreamCraft,but MK has the chance to take a 'second bite' here: rework, redevelop, re-edit. The story won't change, but parts of the narrative are almost certain to. The end product will be far superior to the MPG presentation in many ways. We'll have a full-color cover, with a genuine depiction of the characters and locations rather than a monochrome (blue) pic of a young man; the interior text will be thoroughly proofed and error free; and the narrative will have been re-reveloped. Any writer will tell you, good books are not written, they're re-written ... and we're looking forward to wonderful things with the DreamCraft edition of AQUAMARINE.
...so endeth the pasteover quote.
There you have it, direct from the horse's mouth and what more could you wish for? All that was promised was done. Beautiful new typeset, great cover, and it was proofread to death. So --
The story of Aquamarine always fascinated me. One reviewer at Amazon called it "the book Waterworld should have been." I'd go along with that. It takes place in a "drowned future," so it's another of Keegan's after-the-holocaust tales; but in this case it wasn't a nuclear war, it was a cometary impact that put the final kibosh on the world after we'd already done 75% of the job with global warming.
The story takes place ~70 years in our future, I think. You easily recognize the remnants of our world and society. As always in a Keegan story you have two gorgeous heroes in a romantic relationship. In this book it's Russell Grant, a genetic scientist, and Eric Devlin, a genetically engineered human -- "transhuman" is the term they're using now. Eric has been designed so that he can live and breathe in the sea ... because the world is 90% underwater now, and future generations might depend on being "homo aquaticus" to have real freedom.
Eric and Rusty live on the floating city of Pacifica, which lives in the shelter of the converted monster oil tanker which serves as mothership for the city. The whole project is the brainchild of a very old man, Gerald Duquesne, who had a vision and acted on it when there was still time, though everyone thought he was mad. Pacifica is fine place to live. Eric and Rusty have good lives ... till they get complicated.
A bunch of mercenaries (very nasty characters) come in from Australia, wanting to hire Eric for a job, and when he refuses they just nab him and force him to do the work. Now I must be ultra-careful, because the plot spoilers are sloshing around your knees.
Without wrecking the plot, I can say that what starts as a minor nuisance in a wharfside pub blows up into possible nuclear war. There's 200pp between these two events, and if you love science fiction, gay romance, and thriller-type action, you're going to love this one.
It's one of the earlier Keegans, and you can tell: the plot is more linear, less tangled and interwoven. It's FUN, without getting into deep dark places inside the characters' minds and hearts. If you want something dark and convoluted, I really recommend you try the NARC novels, which will blow your mind. If you want a fast-paced, linear, "sunny" adventure, which is perfect for a rainy day or a hot afternoon, you can't go past Aquamarine.
I know a few critics have said, "Not what you expect of Keegan," because the style is light. But I have to ask the question, Why is there something wrong with the style being light? I'd guess Keegan felt like writing that way at the time, and for me (and a lot of other readers) it works. It's all down to your preferences. I like it a lot, I find it fun, refreshing, so I can make the recommendation without hesitation. Want something dark that'll stand your hair on end? It's Jarrat and Stone you're looking for. You may never be the same again, nudge, wink. (Incidentally, if anyone's growling at you that NARC is not finished -- they're dead wrong. It *IS* finished, with the final trilogy omnibus which shot to the Number One place for its genre at Amazon Kindle. Check it out.)
The only downside Aquamarine ever had was that the previous edition was so full of typos you sometimes cringed as you read it. Raw typescripts are like this. Trust me -- the word of God had to be proofread or you'd have ended up with The Book of Gemesod by Moshes, in which it says, Thou shalt now commute adultery, and Vengeance is mean, sayeth the Loud. Believe me ... they also serve who sit and proof. The DreamCraft edition cured this problem, and at the same time the book was beautifully rejacketed.
Highly recommended, without reservation. AG's rating: 5 out of 5 stars, and a gold stamp for having the determination to go ahead and do it.
What a joy this edition is: it's only the second time Aquamarine has been printed, and the DreamCraft edition is so far superior to the old edition put out the Millivres Publishing Group, you will be astounded.
Quite a story is attached to the old edition. I don't want to type it in here ... too tired, and besides, Keegan told the story better than I'd be telling it. So I'll save time and paste in the relevant bit from a page on a website so old, it's been offline for a decade:
AQUAMARINE is once again MK's property, since the rights have 'passed back to the author.' This is tremendous news for DreamCraft, and also for readers who either haven't been able to find a copy of AQUAMARINE (it's been hard to track down recently), or ... readers who have been driven bananas since 2000, by the 'tatty' presentation of the MPG issue. If you've read the 'Keegan Speaks' page, you'll know that 'things went haywire' at the pre-press stage.
The book was never proof-read! MPG went to press off the 'raw' files which Mel had emailed from Fairbanks, Alaska. Now, normally a book will be proofread four or six times before being published. (At DreamCraft, all books are proofed five times by humans and twice electronically.) This means very few errors get through. No book is error free, but you can get close, and we do. For seven years, readers have loved AQUAMARINE even though they've had to grit their teeth to get through the typing hiccups ... they can't be called 'proofing errors,' because the book wasn't proofed! So we've invited MK to go back to the 'raw' files, the exact, same files that were emailed from Fairbanks, and not only will they be properly proofed by DreamCraft,but MK has the chance to take a 'second bite' here: rework, redevelop, re-edit. The story won't change, but parts of the narrative are almost certain to. The end product will be far superior to the MPG presentation in many ways. We'll have a full-color cover, with a genuine depiction of the characters and locations rather than a monochrome (blue) pic of a young man; the interior text will be thoroughly proofed and error free; and the narrative will have been re-reveloped. Any writer will tell you, good books are not written, they're re-written ... and we're looking forward to wonderful things with the DreamCraft edition of AQUAMARINE.
...so endeth the pasteover quote.
There you have it, direct from the horse's mouth and what more could you wish for? All that was promised was done. Beautiful new typeset, great cover, and it was proofread to death. So --
The story of Aquamarine always fascinated me. One reviewer at Amazon called it "the book Waterworld should have been." I'd go along with that. It takes place in a "drowned future," so it's another of Keegan's after-the-holocaust tales; but in this case it wasn't a nuclear war, it was a cometary impact that put the final kibosh on the world after we'd already done 75% of the job with global warming.
The story takes place ~70 years in our future, I think. You easily recognize the remnants of our world and society. As always in a Keegan story you have two gorgeous heroes in a romantic relationship. In this book it's Russell Grant, a genetic scientist, and Eric Devlin, a genetically engineered human -- "transhuman" is the term they're using now. Eric has been designed so that he can live and breathe in the sea ... because the world is 90% underwater now, and future generations might depend on being "homo aquaticus" to have real freedom.
Eric and Rusty live on the floating city of Pacifica, which lives in the shelter of the converted monster oil tanker which serves as mothership for the city. The whole project is the brainchild of a very old man, Gerald Duquesne, who had a vision and acted on it when there was still time, though everyone thought he was mad. Pacifica is fine place to live. Eric and Rusty have good lives ... till they get complicated.
A bunch of mercenaries (very nasty characters) come in from Australia, wanting to hire Eric for a job, and when he refuses they just nab him and force him to do the work. Now I must be ultra-careful, because the plot spoilers are sloshing around your knees.
Without wrecking the plot, I can say that what starts as a minor nuisance in a wharfside pub blows up into possible nuclear war. There's 200pp between these two events, and if you love science fiction, gay romance, and thriller-type action, you're going to love this one.
It's one of the earlier Keegans, and you can tell: the plot is more linear, less tangled and interwoven. It's FUN, without getting into deep dark places inside the characters' minds and hearts. If you want something dark and convoluted, I really recommend you try the NARC novels, which will blow your mind. If you want a fast-paced, linear, "sunny" adventure, which is perfect for a rainy day or a hot afternoon, you can't go past Aquamarine.
I know a few critics have said, "Not what you expect of Keegan," because the style is light. But I have to ask the question, Why is there something wrong with the style being light? I'd guess Keegan felt like writing that way at the time, and for me (and a lot of other readers) it works. It's all down to your preferences. I like it a lot, I find it fun, refreshing, so I can make the recommendation without hesitation. Want something dark that'll stand your hair on end? It's Jarrat and Stone you're looking for. You may never be the same again, nudge, wink. (Incidentally, if anyone's growling at you that NARC is not finished -- they're dead wrong. It *IS* finished, with the final trilogy omnibus which shot to the Number One place for its genre at Amazon Kindle. Check it out.)
The only downside Aquamarine ever had was that the previous edition was so full of typos you sometimes cringed as you read it. Raw typescripts are like this. Trust me -- the word of God had to be proofread or you'd have ended up with The Book of Gemesod by Moshes, in which it says, Thou shalt now commute adultery, and Vengeance is mean, sayeth the Loud. Believe me ... they also serve who sit and proof. The DreamCraft edition cured this problem, and at the same time the book was beautifully rejacketed.
Highly recommended, without reservation. AG's rating: 5 out of 5 stars, and a gold stamp for having the determination to go ahead and do it.
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