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Book Review of Biting the Sun: Don't Bite the Sun / Drinking Sapphire Wine (Four-BEE, Bk 1 and Bk 2)

Biting the Sun: Don't Bite the Sun / Drinking Sapphire Wine (Four-BEE, Bk 1 and Bk 2)


It's a perfect existince, a world in which no pleasure is off limits, no risk is too dangerous, and no responsibilities can cramp your style. Not if you're Jang: a caste of libertine teenagers in the city of Four Bee. But when you're expected to make trouble -- when you can kill yourself on a whim and return in another body, when you're encouraged to change genders at will and experience whatever you desire -- you've got no reason to rebel...until making love and raising hell, daring death and running wild just leave you cold and empty.

Ravenous for true adventures of the mind and body, desperate to find some meaning, one restless spirit finally bucks the system -- and by shattering the rules, strikes at the very heart of a soul-less society.