When I finished Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh I was a little miffed. Not because I didn’t enjoy the story. No, that was okay. Great even. It’s just that somehow in all the raving about this book online, I’ve come away with the impression that it was set down under . . . just like its author.
So imagine my surprise to find out it’s set in San Francisco! Huh, duh? How did I miss this little detail, people? ‘Cause I know someone talked about it at length. Didn’t ya?
Humph. (Narrowing my eyes on some blogging buddies.)
Okay, so it’s all the fault of my poor little memory. Sure. Uh-huh. Guess I’m gonna have to go back and dig out me some reviews, just to check. And to be fair, I’m probably the one that got their wires crossed. Wouldn’t be the first time. It was just so weird to expect the story to take place on the other side of the world and then it . . . didn’t.
And I did really enjoy both it and it’s spin-off, Visions of Heat. A lot. I think the “universe” she’s created has a lot of potential. On the other hand, it has some problems that I’m still trying to figure out whether I like or not enough to keep reading. Let me get back to you on those.
Nath: Well, like I said, I probably wouldn’t have noticed if I wasn’t looking because she didn’t play up the city itself BUT then again there was a big deal made out of the fact that the cats and wolves were living in or close to the redwood forests. That was rather hard to miss.
May: Hah!
Okay, people, which is worse here? Nobody else noticing or you gals not believing me. Now I really am giving you all suspicious looks. ;p
I didn’t believe you, and went off to search my eARC of StS.
And voila, it really is San Francisco.
Like Cindy, I always thought it was a separate futuristic-Earth type world and didn’t think about it.
LOL,I’ve read this book two or three times already and I don’t remember it taking place in San Francisco ^^; but like Cindy said, I tend to see it as a separate world as well. and there’s no mention really of any of San Francisco’s building or must-see things in the city…
Well, I probably wouldn’t have thought twice about where it was set either if I hadn’t been expecting it to be elsewhere, you know. 😀 And there did seem to be a rather big imbalance between the populations. Come to think of it, did they ever even meet any regular humans?
You know, I never really thought about where the book was set because I see it as a seperate world. The one thing that has been jogging around in my brain is how the wereanimals seem countable while the PSY seems innumerable.
CindyS