Revealing Eden Pt. 1 Save the Pearls

Victoria Foyt

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Altri dati

Formato:
Hardback
Editore:
Sand Dollar Press Inc (US)
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua:
Inglese
Pagine:
320
Dimensioni:
215 X 140
Codice EAN:
9780983650324
Generi:
Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction
Prezzo di copertina:
$ 18,99

I contenuti

Eden Newman must mate before her 18th birthday in six months or she will be left outside to die in a burning world. But who will pick up her mate-option when she's cursed with white skin and a tragically low mate-rate of 15 per cent? In a post-apocalyptic, totalitarian, underground world where class and beauty are defined by resistance to an overheated environment, Eden's colouring brands her as a member of the lowest class, a weak and ugly Pearl. If only she can mate with a dark-skinned Coal from the ruling class, she'll be safe. Just may be one Coal sees the Real Eden and will be her salvation her co-worker Jamal has begun secretly dating her. But when Eden unwittingly compromises her father's secret biological experiment, she finds herself in the eye of a storm and thrown into the last area of rainforest, a strange and dangerous land. Eden must fight to save her father, who may be humanity's last hope, while standing up to a powerful beast-man she believes is her enemy, despite her overwhelming attraction. Eden must change to survive but only if she can redefine her ideas of beauty and of love, along with a little help from her adopted aunt Emily Dickinson.

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Being at the bottom of the barrel is hard to fight up from. Revealing Eden is set in a far flung post apocalyptic future where darker skin proved to be a boon, and people of the lighter skin dwindled in number and found themselves on the bottom of the social ladder. Seventeen year old Eden is doomed to be outcast from her society if she does not find a mate before her eighteenth birthday, but the currents are hard to fight against. The kindness of a stranger may give her a chance to fight back yet, even as the world crushes down around her. Revealing Eden has plenty to consider on the issues of race and romance, very much recommended reading from acclaimed writer of novel and screenplay Victoria Foyt.
- Midwest Book Review
I was actually surprised by how political this books was. It's very race centred with the coals being the ruling race and looking down on the lowest-of-the-low pearls. Pearls have a special section on public transport and they work mainly as lowly servants to the coals, it's all like a reverse of the real racism that used to happen and, unfortunately, is still going about. In this post apocalyptic world, the sun's radiation is too high for people to go outside in the daylight hours. The lighter your skin, the more danger you're in. This means that pearls are low in number while coals are rising up. You must mate by your 18th birthday or you're cut off from all resources and pearls also have to cover up their white skin so they don't offend the coals, and also so they don't get killed. Eden has a job in a research lab purely because of her dad's genius, a pearl would never have such a high job otherwise. She unwittingly brings about the downfall of her dad's experiment and she and her father must escape along with her father's newest test subject. Eden's views change drastically while stuck in the jungle with Bramford, her former boss and father's current test subject. I think Eden is a relatable lead, although therea