by Chris Beckett
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...
** 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...
** 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Glad I read this as a paperback as I'm not sure that I'd file it under sci-fi in my kindle. Yes there was a spaceship generations ago but does that qualify?That aside, I loved it and want more. What will happen to John and his family now...
I actually have a lot of really complicated feelings about this one. On the one hand, it has some fascinating worldbuilding and the development of language is of particular interest to me, as are the social rituals and relationships that have risen on this new world. Those aren't the reasons I picke...
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