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The Eternal Dawn (2010)

by Christopher Pike(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1442413182 (ISBN13: 9781442413184)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

series

Thirst

review 1: Reading this book was such a treat to me, given the fact that I read the original releases of the first six (now condensed into two novels - Thirst 1 & 2) when I was just a kid. Its amazing how 250 pages were enough when I was a kid - now the publishers feel the need to combine 3 novels into one in order to sell to this generation! All the same, I really liked this book - it felt... comfortable and familiar. I'm not sure I like how Pike decided to continue the story, by fictionalizing Seymour's account, but at the same time its very Pike :DReading this was a bit of an eye opener in how far I've come as a reader. This book was so clipped, so to-the-point, that I don't even know what most of the characters looked like! Person and place descriptions were minimal and obviously... more not important to the writer. I'm not complaining though, my imagination just went wild and I loved it! Most novels I really enjoy and remember are the ones where my imagination did all the work. Plus, I can't remember the last first person narration I've read.I'll definitely be reading the follow up books!!!
review 2: Couldn't finish it. I was so incredibly excited when i first heard that there were more books in this series. I stuck with it at first because I was sure that once the first scene was over there would be an explanation for why Alisa was back. However, this was not forthcoming. There was no explanation until about halfway through the book and even then it was half hearted and feeble at best. To Christopher Pike you mean to tell me that you put me through emotional heartbreak, poignancy and pain for six books only to wash it away with the idea that it was the semi-true ramblings of a teenager with AIDS through a psychic link? It smacked of ghost writing truthfully. There was none of the deep musing on the ideas of faith and grace, or the revolutionary idea of the facets of god and how they are represented through figures of history. In fact Alisa is nothing but a shallow shadow of what she was in previous books. After the trials and turmoil she has gone through to protect her blood (including a nuclear explosion I might add) only to give it to a young girl so that she will win the olympics? Previously when Alisa gave up her blood it was out of love and compassion which is how she retained her grace with Krishna. Overall, poor effort1/5 less

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