Review: An amazing story with some warnings
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 19, 2013
Eden by Dean Crawford is a very powerful, very disturbing story. It verges on the horrific and includes some of the most vile characters and actions in any post apocalyptic novel. No one is spared; all have good and bad elements. In that sense it mirrors reality. Nonetheless, the focus is on negative aspects & actions. At the very end (last sentences) there is some hope for the future.The novel concerns some arctic scientists marooned after a solar 'event' wipes out the world's electrical grid. It offers a much more pessimistic view of the future than most P-A novels. In addition, there are a lot of typos and errors: 'span' is used for 'spun', 'poured' for 'pored' (pored over), 'Pan Handle' for 'panhandle', 'canvass' (what politicians do) for 'canvas' (sails). Late in the book, Jake is named for Saunders and a few pages later, Saunders is named for Jake. Perhaps the largest error is that the coordinates given are nowhere near Boston harbor and appear to actually be in British Columbia (55N, 126 W).Still, if you like a good, violent story, this one is exceptional.