Review: Oh Yeah, Just A Little East Of Eden. . .
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2014
Life can get rough when you are a teenager in the future living on a new planet called Eden trying to get your own life together. Do you really care about the fate of the human race and your planet no, but unfortunately sometime fate propels you into a situation. That you have to call the shots with no support from the parents.That is the beginning salvo that is fired in this breathtaking. fast paced, rite of passage, slice of life Sci Fi, YA story. I know that is a lot of hats to wear and most times with that many hats all you get is a jumbled mess but there is an exception to everything and this happens to be the exception to the rule.This is the first book in a new series and of course my quest is finding new series to become a part of hence the beauty of a series. If written correctly it gives you an opportunity to develop a long term relationship with the characters. That is of course if the story is series worthy and you can usully tell three pages in for that one. I breezed through the first chapter and was duped right in the middle of the action.Plus what I really liked is that the dialog flowed smoothly there is nothing worse then cheesy dialog with a bunch of tags in it. The dialogue serves two purposes that I can see one moves the story line forward and two the author has use the dialogue to explore the character o f the character.When I say character I mean what makes them tick how they address the age old moral dilemma. The subtext in this story is there on each page you just need to be open to the translation. In this series author Archer Swift created  characters that are three dimensional getting below the surface to the meat of the internal workings of each one.My personal philosophy is that there are only so many story lines in the universe..I define good books as stories that have found a creative twist. To one of those standards I have yet to read.I will say this book has succeeded skillfully. I have signed up for the email notification for the next book in the series. It’s at the top right of the page in case you didn't know.Takes all the problems out of being a series addict you never miss the next one. Great job giving this book a five because I'm coming back for more.