kayis813 's review for:

Eon by Alison Goodman

5.0

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Usually when it takes me over a week to finish a book it's because I didn't like it or found it very boring. Fortunately with Eon that wasn't the case and it took me so long to finish it simply because last week had me in a near constant state of exhaustion and I couldn't focus on reading for very long.

Eon was such a good book! I absolutely love books with dragons and things based in Asian culture so I had high expectations for this book which isn't always a good thing but all of my expectations were either met or surpassed. This was EVERYTHING I've been wanting in a fantasy book for ages!

My favorite things about this book

The world building

The character development

Transgender people

Disabled main character

Mulan type main character

Identity issues the main character develops

The very subtle, barely there romance

All of the Asian culture

Things I didn't like:

Spoiler

Eona's disability gets healed at the very end. We need more main characters who are super powerful AND disabled. Not people who are cured/healed the second they get super powerful

This wasn't too big of an issue but I thought

Spoiler

Eon transitioned into Eona a bit too seamlessly and quick in my opinion

In other words this is an amazing book and anyone who likes fantasy should read it.