Goodman, Alison: Eon

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Comments

[villagewitch]

I loved this two book series and I think the sequel was a lot better!

[villagewitch]

I totally agree! The characters really grew in the second novel.

[calico_reaction]

I'm very glad and comforted to hear that!

[roseeyedangel]

I read this... about a year ago i think (Eona is still sitting in my TBR pile maybe I'll pick it up next...) and I agree with a lot of things you are saying, other then one. I did not think it was a fast read, I loved the character development and the gender identity but for me the book moved slowly I often felt like exciting things were happening but I was just not that excited about them as a reader. I felt a little bit of disjoint with the writing and I could never really put my finger on it, because I really did like the story and the subject material but i never felt a sense of emergency I guess when reading it. It was a weird feeling. maybe it was because as someone else mentioned Eon(a) felt often like a victim to me as well and that was frustrating for a lead character, even though I could understand it given the situation. *shruggs* and that weird feeling it most likely why I haven't read the second one yet, beacuse I can't quite identify what bothered me about this book even though as I said I did rather enjoy it

[calico_reaction]

It's funny how we enjoy books but don't realize something is irking us. I hope you get around to the sequel, as I hear it's even better than the first book.

[kellicat]

I felt the same way you did about this book. It took me far longer to read than I expected because I could put it down again and pick up another book easily until a hundred pages before the end. I do appreciate how she ended the book, but most of it didn't grab me (except for Lady Dela).

[calico_reaction]

I hear the sequel is so much better. :)

[starmetal_oak]

I pretty much covered everything in my review, except the disability thing. I noticed it and thought it was cheap. I'm interested to see how this plays out in the second book since someone mentioned it doesn't go as planned.

Here's another thing I was thinking about that I'll throw out here:
Was anyone else uncomfortable by how Ido would "attack" Eon? He would invade her mind against her will and I thought it often a metaphor for rape. I thought the whole mind control thing was an odd addition and I wondered what the author was trying to say. It kind of annoyed me that a character for all intents and purposes was a boy and yet still managed to get "raped". Once Ido found out she was a girl, he tried to do it physically.

[calico_reaction]

Mind rape, yeah.... there is that. Is she inherently vulnerable because she's female, or would that have happened regardless of gender. I think that latter, but it seems stickier because she was a girl pretending to be a boy.

[burgandyice]

Here's my review

[calico_reaction]

Good point about Lady Dela's comparison to Eona. About the healing though, since I've been told in above comments it's not so simple as that, I'll reserve judgement until I read the sequel. :)

[intoyourlungs]

[calico_reaction]

Hee hee... holler when your review is up! I'm glad this worked for you so well that you're immediately reading the sequel. :)