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Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus
Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus rated it 9 years ago
This promised to be a queersploitation, and not only that, one set in Kingston, Jamaica. Awesome. After all, I loved Django Unchained, which is given as an example of a blaxploitation movie, while also portraying slavery as evil and vile and wrong, and even having one white main character procl...
That's What She Read
That's What She Read rated it 10 years ago
The Fault in Our Blogs
The Fault in Our Blogs rated it 11 years ago
source: http://thefaultinourblogs.blogspot.comHoly Michael's names, this book! I was expecting some heart-warming philosophical novel when I picked it up, based off the reviews on the cover. The cover is gorgeous, by the way. It's iridescent. What I found was an imaginative world, and the story of i...
DoodlePanda reads stuff
DoodlePanda reads stuff rated it 11 years ago
** 2.5 Stars **I am finding it very difficult to write a review for this book.On the one hand it was good, the story was interesting, the world-building was great. The whole idea of humans living on a different planet with stories and myths about life on Earth was really interesting. And I loved how...
DoodlePanda reads stuff
DoodlePanda reads stuff rated it 11 years ago
** 2.5 Stars **I am finding it very difficult to write a review for this book.On the one hand it was good, the story was interesting, the world-building was great. The whole idea of humans living on a different planet with stories and myths about life on Earth was really interesting. And I loved how...
Roving Book Club
Roving Book Club rated it 11 years ago
Read by Tiffany: Amazing world, lulls you with familiar words for animals (fox, bat, leopard), then describes them chapters later and you realise how alien they are (six limbs, flat eyes, snow leopards throw their voice, forest leopards sing to victims).Dark Eden is told through 2 main characters pr...
TezMillerOz
TezMillerOz rated it 11 years ago
TRIGGER WARNINGS: Incest, ableism.The US cover sparked my interest, and the setting of Eden includes flora and fauna of which some is colourful and some lights up. I'm not even kidding when I say that a character, not unlike Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, has a light-up nose that comes in very hand...
That's What She Read
That's What She Read rated it 11 years ago
The writing within Dark Eden is absolutely fantastic. Mr. Beckett builds the world of Eden solely through John’s observations and inner monologues. Yet the vision one gets of this unusual world is as vivid as if one were viewing a picture of it. For a world in which nothing is familiar, this is quit...
Wortmagieblog
Wortmagieblog rated it 11 years ago
The story slingshots the reader onto a different planet, a planet where the trees are geothermic and humming, where animals have two hearts and dark green blood in their veins. A planet permanently living in the dark – Eden.There we meet John Redlantern, a 15 year old human teenager who desperately ...
FriedEgg
FriedEgg rated it 12 years ago
An unwilling couple are stranded on a strange, distant planet while the others attempt to get back to earth leaving only a promise that they will send help. This story starts around a century and a half later and their descendants now number over five hundred, most of which are beset with deformitie...
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