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Eon: Dragoneye Reborn (2008)

by Alison Goodman(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0670062278 (ISBN13: 9780670062270)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Viking Juvenile

series

Eon

review 1: Not bad at all, although the weird thing is I kept accidentally skipping random details I probably should not have. Slightly awkward. Huh. Anyways, moving on from that. The story line was good, mainly cause it was based in China. Imperial CHINA and played on good kinda myths and things to weave it into a great fictional read. The only bother I had was the random chinese character. STOP.Please. i DONT want to make any racist jokes here. Read this, but warning it is rather long and the story got tedious at times, although 2 days was basically what I needed, with very random intervals of reading. SO okay read.
review 2: When I read Eon in maybe eighth grade or so, I thought it was one of the most creative ideas I’d ever witnessed. I was a bit disappointed with ... morethe nonexistent romance in this book, but that did not bother me for long as I delved deeper and deeper into the realm of the ancient dragons. It’s a very intriguing novel; I even wrote an essay on it for school. I really love how she didn’t try to provide all the background information by shoving it into the dialogue of the characters. She instead utilized a sort of prologue or introduction that was short and also ended on some mysterious notes. For example, she mentions the misogyny in the very last paragraph. Obviously, this is supposed to be meaningful—and it is—as Eon herself is actually a girl. I just love how smoothly that flowed. I don’t have to be tossed into a world haphazardly and try to understand through the tiniest details. She gives you the premise, and so you enter the gates. The whole ideas of Dragoneyes and the whole ceremony—all of that was really, really interesting. I like how she starts the first chapter with action, when Eon is practicing for the sword ceremony. This whole world that she creates, it teaches me some things. For one, it taught me about the queue, which was an actual hairstyle for the Manchu people of China, a very long time ago. But it also implies that there is no black and white in the world we live in, not the world in Eon, not the world today. Eon has committed crimes, she has. So has Kygo. Yet I still liked Eon, though because she seemed more real to me. She panicked, she wasn’t perfectly strong. She made mistakes. And since the book is written in her first-person perspective, I naturally lean towards her side. I love when she begins to have a tentative friendship with Prince Kygo, too. She grows more honest with him. I feel like this book began to bring to light some things for me that had been vague at the time I read it. It’s not a book that I would just read once and never think back to it. It’s something that I would often wonder about, how that world existed. Goodman’s writing style was also exquisite, capturing the voice of a teenager yet still being able to be descriptive in a way that conveyed Eon’s observation. less

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