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A review by bepevy20
Dark Eden by Chris Beckett
2.0
Interesting concept but I feel like it could have been a better story. The writing was intentionally simplistic, the plot was very slow and thin, and there was only really one character I found interesting. Everyone else seemed to be created specifically to revolve around him.
Very little happened in this book and I was grateful every time a time skip occurred. I felt like I spent the whole book waiting for something bigger to happen. That's not to say I need action packed books to have an enjoyable reading experience. One of my favorite books last year could be summed up as "a young woman goes home for the weekend." but somehow it felt like less happened in Dark Eden than in that book.
The book could have been greatly improved by making this story shorter and jumping much further into the future at different intervals. Or maybe a better story would have been (SPOILERS!!!!) ......... If earth humans actually had come back to get the people on Eden ...... (end spoilers) Sadly, neither of those things happened and the whole book felt underdeveloped. There is a good story that could be told with this premise but this is not it.
Very little happened in this book and I was grateful every time a time skip occurred. I felt like I spent the whole book waiting for something bigger to happen. That's not to say I need action packed books to have an enjoyable reading experience. One of my favorite books last year could be summed up as "a young woman goes home for the weekend." but somehow it felt like less happened in Dark Eden than in that book.
The book could have been greatly improved by making this story shorter and jumping much further into the future at different intervals. Or maybe a better story would have been (SPOILERS!!!!) ......... If earth humans actually had come back to get the people on Eden ...... (end spoilers) Sadly, neither of those things happened and the whole book felt underdeveloped. There is a good story that could be told with this premise but this is not it.