Meh. This book suffered from the intense word-of-mouth that had me expecting a fantastic novel. It was quite serviceable, but not spectacular. I was very bothered by the fact that the hero lived in "Metropolis/New York City" and yet there were apparently no resources for gay people. Gay people were openly mocked and their families ostracized and punished, without any sort of push back from any organized gay community. I realize that bigotry is alive and well the world over, but it seemed very much magnified into a trope and quite out of place in the author's otherwise enlightened world.