Kari C. reviewed on + 77 more book reviews
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Misspent Youth is set a few decades in our future. The setting is an interesting one - the European Union is slowly taken over all of Europe, while in the US the religious conservatives have taken power. The economy is not in great shape, and the Datasphere (which replaced the internet) has completely changed the way humans interact and think about things - thing torrents and Wiki Leaks taken all the way to the end of the slippery slope.
Trying to keep the interest and support of it's citizens the EU has figured out how to revert a human back to their early 20s, as far as physical health. The book follows the family of the first person to undergo the treatment.
However, while all of that seems really interesting, the plot skids away sharply to be replaced by the man and his son lusting after and sleeping with anything they can. Pretty much most of what I read (I only read about 115 pages) was high school dating drama, with very little about the rejuvenated character whom I assumed was going to be a main character. What we do get from him indicates his libido is going to be taking over very soon.
I skimmed the rest and saw it was mostly high school romance drama mixed with anti-EU politics. Not really my cup of tea. I like my romances to feature characters with more maturity and like the politics left out as much as possible.
Trying to keep the interest and support of it's citizens the EU has figured out how to revert a human back to their early 20s, as far as physical health. The book follows the family of the first person to undergo the treatment.
However, while all of that seems really interesting, the plot skids away sharply to be replaced by the man and his son lusting after and sleeping with anything they can. Pretty much most of what I read (I only read about 115 pages) was high school dating drama, with very little about the rejuvenated character whom I assumed was going to be a main character. What we do get from him indicates his libido is going to be taking over very soon.
I skimmed the rest and saw it was mostly high school romance drama mixed with anti-EU politics. Not really my cup of tea. I like my romances to feature characters with more maturity and like the politics left out as much as possible.
