Plot: To survive in a ruined world, she must embrace the darkness…
Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled-in city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten. Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them—the vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself dies and becomes one of the monsters.
Forced to flee her city, Allie must pass for human as she joins a ragged group of pilgrims seeking a legend—a place that might have a cure for the disease that killed off most of civilization and created the rabids, the bloodthirsty creatures who threaten human and vampire alike. And soon Allie will have to decide what and who is worth dying for again.
My Opinion: While I heard a lot about these books I wasn't sure if I would like them and pushed it somewhere back in my mind that I might want to read them. One day at Amazon I discovered them for just a few € and decided to buy the ebook copies. I never expected to be this entertained and that these books would get me at all. But the storytelling is awesome and exciting, fast paced and the characters well build. You get to know a bunch of characters and you either love them or hate them.
I never expected these books to be so brutal and full of blood. I don't know what I expected but I think it's just the way Julie Kagawa describes every situation and fight. She goes into detail describing every bit, which made it sometimes really hard for me to get forward.
Now this sounds like I doesn't know anything about vampires, but I have to add that I never really read anything vampire related, except Vampire Academy and House of Night (don't judge me XD"). Nowadays vampire stories get all the way romanticized and you only get glimpses of the original portrayal of vampires, which is why the Blood of Eden series is so different. You get to see the real monsters vampires are and you get to see the fear and hate of humans for them. You also get to see the struggles between humans, vampires and turning ones. There are still some of the typical clichés, but all in all it's way different than most young adult vampire stories. At least that's what I see here. Not much of a romanticized version, even when there is the typical young adult love in this trilogy. But put it aside and you get a good load of a dystopian world full of action, cruelty, humanity and the urge to survive and fight the end of the world no matter what it costs.
For
Kylie, the miracle of her survival is also her burden-as a doctor at
one of the clinics for the infected she is forced to witness endless
suffering. What's worse strange things are happening to the remains
of the dead and by the time she befriends Ben Archer she's
beginning to wonder if a global pandemic is the least of her
problems....
My Opinion: We get to see the beginning of the Red Lung outbreak. People were still fighting to survive or even to succeed the virus. I liked the turn to a more adult allyway in this novella. We follow two fledged adults through their adventure of getting away from the Red Lung Virus. But after a while both of them have to admit that there is more.
We meet K(anin) when he rescues both protagonists. While K's name is never mentioned, everyone who first read the trilogy knows who it is. He's already fighting with himself about what he'd done and is determined to find a cure for Rabidism.
With the mention of Ben Archer we also get introduced to the Archer-family, which we know from the first book. All in all this was a bit too fast, because it is too short. It would have been even better with a couple more pages and not so much insta-love. But in the end we still get a bloody and scary journey full of action. While on their way to the farmhouse Kylie and Ben meet more and more of the rabids. Since these are the first times they meet them, they are so scared. And Because Julie Kagawa is brilliant in portraying situations you also get super scared.
Dawn of Eden is a short story full of action, blood and the fighting for life. Ab bit short, but still satisfying. Even when the title is a bit misleading, since you could expect to actually get to read about Eden and how it was created.
We meet K(anin) when he rescues both protagonists. While K's name is never mentioned, everyone who first read the trilogy knows who it is. He's already fighting with himself about what he'd done and is determined to find a cure for Rabidism.
With the mention of Ben Archer we also get introduced to the Archer-family, which we know from the first book. All in all this was a bit too fast, because it is too short. It would have been even better with a couple more pages and not so much insta-love. But in the end we still get a bloody and scary journey full of action. While on their way to the farmhouse Kylie and Ben meet more and more of the rabids. Since these are the first times they meet them, they are so scared. And Because Julie Kagawa is brilliant in portraying situations you also get super scared.
Dawn of Eden is a short story full of action, blood and the fighting for life. Ab bit short, but still satisfying. Even when the title is a bit misleading, since you could expect to actually get to read about Eden and how it was created.
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