How does one make sex boring? By making it silly. Heinlein's overeager and childish characters both deflate the intended eroticism and make fools of themsleves - and who wants to read about foolish people? ( )

Have you ever wondered to yourself, “What would it be like to be a member of the opposite gender?” Well that’s not what Johann Smith was thinking when he sent out an advertisement rewarding one million dollars for a brain dead patient with his rare blood type. Why? Well Mr. Smith had grown quite old, and in keeping with the human condition wanted to find a way to extend his rapidly closing life. When money is nothing, attempting a very risky and very controversial brain transplant is nothing. What Johann hadn’t counted on was his new body being that of his young, attractive and female secretary, Eunice.

Many will say that this is not one of Heinlein’s best books. Sure, the moral comes late and doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the rest of the story. Heinlein has some themes that are in most if not all of his books, this one being the importance of procreation, along with the search for immortality, free love, and the differences and relationship between emotional love and sexual experience. I will even say that by no means is this book a classic of any genre, but it is a book I have read several times over. However, it does have merits. This is, to my knowledge, one of the first science fiction works to show a homosexual couple in a sympathetic way, and it does explore the topic of gender roles.

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Explores themes of gender, sexuality, and mortallity. I liked this better than some of Heinlein's other works that tackle similar themes (especially Stranger in a Strange Land). I Will Fear No Evil seemed to be a more wholly complete novel. It's not without flaws; probably could have done with a better editor. But overall an intriguing book. ( )

What would it be like to live another life in the body of the opposite gender?
This could have been done so much better. ( )

This is an unreadably bad book. It will probably be one of the few available to damned souls in Hell's lending library. ( )