Silly Little Country

Harriett Devine Discovers Eve Dallas

I wound up picking up an Eve Dallas novel some time ago as an airplane novel (items I do not currently have the same need of), mistaking the author for someone else with a vaguely similar name, I cannot recall who. My guess is that I made the purchase at a local Zeller's book table with three novels available for some ridiculous price and I had found two unread Rebus novels and was trolling desperately to complete the threesome.
This passage stood out:

What I had not noticed until I started reading it was that this series' USP is that the novels are set in New York City in 2060. If I had noticed this it might have put me off, as science fiction is not my cup of tea. In fact it is so lightly done here that it is hardly noticeable -- it just takes the form of slightly more sophisticated technology, really, and I have to admit it's quite clever.

I did not notice this at all and it took a few pages into the novel I bought to recognize it. But it never intruded in the way that causes me to simply put a book down, as my interest in the author's speculations about the shape of the future vanish.
I have to agree utterly with this, though it is also evident I did not buy the same Eve Dallas incarnation:

Still, it's quite a well written book -- no Baldacci or Dan Brown infelicities here -- and you never know, I might just pick up another one sometime if the price is right.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 10:15 AM