There are a lot of secondary characters in this book but the one that stands out most is the Gray Forest, itself. He didn’t expect her to also be the sheriff who has come to stop him. He is The Avenger in the Netherwood and has drawn his Amazonia here to have her with him in the safe place he is helping to create. Lieutenant Robert Kovner is a rebel, a freedom fighter in a war few know is coming. In Netherwood she is Amazonia, warrior giant, and The Avenger is her lover. In the real world she is heir-apparent to one of the huge corporations who serve as governments in this future. She has played, for years, in a cyber-underworld called the Netherwood. Talia isn’t the good citizen she pretends to be, though. A terrorist who has destroyed the planet’s connection to the grid, a future internet with intergalactic capability, and left it vulnerable. Talia Fortune is an intergalactic sheriff who has come to the colony planet, Fresh Havens, to catch a terrorist. Netherwood is Robin Hood with The Matrix and I Robot thrown in and a sort of Aeon Flux feel. On her site Michele Lang describes Netherwood as “a futuristic Robin Hood story.” It is, but it’s way more than that. SciFi/Speculative Romance released by Shomi on 26 Feb 08 Alicia’s review of Netherwood by Michele Lang
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