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A review by octobyte
Dark Eden by Chris Beckett
1.0
I'm so terribly disappointed in this book. I read the summary and was so excited about the idea of this book that the reality of it left me heart broken and with a bad taste in my mouth that I just couldn't finish it.
I listen to books on audio format. So with that in mind, the child like language this stranded group of humans that are several generations later from the original crew was distracting to say the least. I get what the author was going for, but repeating worlds to emphasize their meaning is just annoying and I don't see this as a plausible possibility. Think Lord of the Flies but grandparent age to children. If something is really cold, you use a different word, like freezing not "cold cold".
That part I could have over looked. I get it...you are trying to show a distinct language growing out of an ostracized group of humans, I don't agree with how you are doing it, but I get it. What killed the book for me was the complete obsession with sex (or slip). I understand sex is a big part of western culture, but I'm not a fan of it being one of the main points and constant thoughts of the characters...all the characters. This one think of I Am Legand, the book, not the movie. I want my books to have substance. If you want to put sex with substance, fine. If you want to make a character or two obsessed with sex, fine. But in the 5 chapters I listened to every character (boy, girl, young, old) obsessed over sex and bragged about it to each other...even an old blind man who's only memory of someone's grandmother he felt like talking about was the sex she gave him and how good it was.
Maybe it gets better, hell there are three books in the series already, but I just couldn't anymore. Sorry.
I listen to books on audio format. So with that in mind, the child like language this stranded group of humans that are several generations later from the original crew was distracting to say the least. I get what the author was going for, but repeating worlds to emphasize their meaning is just annoying and I don't see this as a plausible possibility. Think Lord of the Flies but grandparent age to children. If something is really cold, you use a different word, like freezing not "cold cold".
That part I could have over looked. I get it...you are trying to show a distinct language growing out of an ostracized group of humans, I don't agree with how you are doing it, but I get it. What killed the book for me was the complete obsession with sex (or slip). I understand sex is a big part of western culture, but I'm not a fan of it being one of the main points and constant thoughts of the characters...all the characters. This one think of I Am Legand, the book, not the movie. I want my books to have substance. If you want to put sex with substance, fine. If you want to make a character or two obsessed with sex, fine. But in the 5 chapters I listened to every character (boy, girl, young, old) obsessed over sex and bragged about it to each other...even an old blind man who's only memory of someone's grandmother he felt like talking about was the sex she gave him and how good it was.
Maybe it gets better, hell there are three books in the series already, but I just couldn't anymore. Sorry.