2019 SF, a loose sequel to Mainline. Kes is the top dominatrix at
the top club on the planet, but one of her clients has attracted the
wrong sort of attention.
It's only a loose sequel, and the characters I cared about from
Mainline weren't the ones who came back. We learn more about the
setting (which the author has been developing with RPGs since the
1980s) but I didn't really care for any of the people, except insofar
as they were at the whim of nastier people. There are many good bits,
particularly when we reach up from these petty criminal squabbles into
Imperial-level politics, but there wasn't quite the sense of
enthusiasm which brought me back to reread Mainline after twenty
years.
Or maybe I'm just a prude for not finding D/s relationships
intrinsically fascinating. Yeah, I get it, you have friends in the
scene and you're not just doing it for the titillation, but just
because it's D/s that doesn't mean I want to read about it if I don't
also care about the characters.
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