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"Eros, Philia, Agape" by Rachel Swirsky1 star out of 5
Where to begin... There wasn't one character I could relate to or empathize with. Not Adriana, not Lucian and definitely, absolutely not the spoiled brat of their kid, Rose. Adriana needed a good shrink. Lucian was... uh, did the author actually want me to sympathize with him? If so, she failed utterly. And Rose, what a brat - but with those two as parents, no wonder. And the ending! I guess the author wanted us to believe in the possibility of a happy ending, what with the "maybe he returned to them and they both cried with joy!" crock of nonsense, but all I saw was Adriana behaving like a doormat.
The only positive thing was the gay couple, Ben and Lawrence. I would've preferred a story about them, thank you very much.
And this was a finalist for the Hugo Award in 2010? Wow, they must have suffered from a great lack of good entries that year.
