Revealing Eden, Book 1 in the Save the Pearls series by Victoria Foyt, brought some very interesting concepts into play. Caucasians becoming the lower class due to overwhelming numbers of other races? I can't believe it hasn't happened yet. Creating genetic mutations in people? Probably not too far out there. Humans destroying their own world enough that living outside is toxic? Probably not too far out there, either. We do have a tendency to mess up a good thing. I enjoyed the plot line of the story, but found myself yawning every time the main gal inwardly oohed and ahhed over the main guy's flexing muscles, graceful lope, and penetrating eyes. Are we ever going to come up with new ways to describe a teenage girl to fawn over a bad boy? WAIT! Maybe if we turn him into a CHIMERA! ....hmmm, nope, that didn't work.
OK, maybe he's not really a chimera, because they left out the goat, but come on: take one part arrogant male eye-candy, add one part snake, one part bird of prey(not quite the chimeric dragon, but you get my drift), and one part jaguar and shake thoroughly. What do you get? Something that I couldn't picture clearly but closely resembled Panthro from Thundercats in my mind. What started out as a dystopic adventure started morphing into Beauty and the Beast visit the Amazon. I enjoyed the read, but am not overly enthralled by it. I still give it 4 out of 5 stars, and will now be searching the internet for old episodes of Thundercats.
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