Review: Fast-Paced, Well-Written & Very Entertaining
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2014
The first book in the Chronicles of Paradise series gets off to a fantastic start, quickly sucking the reader into a fast-paced science fiction YA novel that manages to have a lot of thrills and a lot of emotionally charged drama. The novel leads readers into a dsytopian world where humanity has fled Earth for a promise of survival on a distant planet... only to have the unknown quickly begin to thin the ranks of the few who have survived. As Ristan Abel gets caught up in the far reaching plot and danger found on the planet Eden (or Zika to the natives) he has his world turned upside down and the very fate of the few humans that remain placed upon his shoulders as deep betrayal and intrigue begins to unravel.The sharply written novel has a vivid and engaging writing style that brings this story to life in intricate ways. Winding around you as Ristan's story progresses and the danger, hope, survival, power-mongering and betrayal begins to unfold. Archer Swift does a wonderful job of setting a gritty and exciting tone that sets the stage for what I think will be a truly thrilling series. This left me eager to read the next novel in the Chronicles of Paradise and see where else the story and Mr. Swift take us readers.