Synposis: Sea Base ten of the Seannan Empire is attacked by unknown forces and Seacat John McCall crash lands on a foriegn planet outside his empire's sphere of influence. He cannot send a Mayday for fear of endangering this planet's inhabitants (because, he is just that noble!) He has no money and no way to get home. So he works in the local in hoping to find some way home. Then a Seeker from Surreal offers him a ride. John is suspicious because there is no payment required, he just has make a stop at Surreal first.
Surreal is a planet that was attacked by a different group of baddies 20 years earlier, and half of it inhabitants now exsist in the mist (which is apparantly better than being dead, but only just.) These people of the mist can only regain their true form when their soul mates claim them.... but it is more complicated than that. The seeker knows that John is destined to be the soul mate of one of the people of Surreal, but he cannot (or will not?) explain this to John. He meerly must stall and hope that John embraces his soul mate.
And buddy do they embrace!
Review: I love the world that this author has created! It is this fascinating conglomeration of familiar and unique. The Seacat people remind me of Honor Harrington's Cat people, but more human like. (Especially hottie half-breed John!) The author has several fascinating different races represented in the book and this whole back world that is even more interesting than the main focus of the story (which was a whacky, crazy, heart-wrenching story in and of itself!). And that was my main frustration with the story. I want to know more about the big picture!! Kong gives us just enough to keep this plot moving without leaving us completely lost, but I see so much potential for future books in the series (which unfortunately are not out yet!) This is one of the reasons that I hate reading series that aren't finished yet. Hurry Ms. Kong and write more books so we can read them!!It is self-published and although it is much better edited than a lot of the self-published stories I have read, there were still some typos and word usage points that left me a bit bewildered. Kong found a clever way to adjust for those. You see, there are several different languages in the book, and most of the characters speak Earthlish, but just like people in the Midwest pronounce things differently from people in the South, and have different words that are unique to their location, a lot of the characters in the book do the same thing. Once I got into the story, it was easier to gloss over a lot of these as being just how John's world is different from our own.
The only other warning I will give readers is that there is sex. And not the brush over it and you know something happened, but we aren't going to tell you just what, type sex. There were scenes that left me blushing when my kids ran in the room. You've been warned, you may not want to read in public!
A lost Kitten is her debut novel. To learn more about the stories she has coming soon (hopefully!) check out her website at http://seaanan.com
Rating **** Four out of five stars.
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