I really wish I could take such a blase look at the book as "REALLY bad erotica", but the book reeks of ephebophilia-apolgia couched in fiction. One defense that Kelman uses is: "Technically, all the girls in the book are legal. They are young women, they are not children. Many of them are precociously sexual and some of them are predatory, too. No one comes out of the book that well.' Sure thing, Nic.
Sure, sure, I'm guilty of using hyperbolic shorthand for the ephebophilia-apolgist whose book is extremely distasteful. However, that doesn't dismiss my retort to Paul—which, I will repeat, that according to W&H's legal complaint, everything was progressing swimmingly until WotC replaced their liason with Kelman.