Eona [Hardcover]

Alison Goodman (Author)

Book Description

Release date: April 19, 2011

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Eon has been revealed as Eona, the first female Dragoneye in hundreds of years. Along with fellow rebels Ryko and Lady Dela, she is on the run from High Lord Sethon's army. The renegades are on a quest for the black folio, stolen by the drug-riddled Dillon; they must also find Kygo, the young Pearl Emperor, who needs Eona's power and the black folio if he is to wrest back his throne from the selfstyled "Emperor" Sethon. Through it all, Eona must come to terms with her new Dragoneye identity and power - and learn to bear the anguish of the ten dragons whose Dragoneyes were murdered. As they focus their power through her, she becomes a dangerous conduit for their plans. . . .

Eona, with its pulse-pounding drama and romance, its unforgettable fight scenes, and its surprises, is the conclusion to an epic only Alison Goodman could create.

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About the Author

Alison Goodman, in addition to the Eon/Eona duology, is also the author of Singing the Dogstar Blues and the adult science fiction thriller Killing the Rabbit. She lives with her husband and their hyperactive Jack Russell terrier in Australia.

Product Details

• Age Range: 12 and up
  
• Hardcover: 637 pages
• Publisher: Viking Juvenile; Reprint edition (April 19, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670063118
• ISBN-13: 978-0670063116
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (115 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #353,844 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars "Bloody, violent, and a true end to the Dragoneye saga." July 10, 2011

By Pam van Hylckama Vlieg

Format:Audio CD

Eona is a hard book for me to review. Not only am I completely new to audio, Eona was such an epic conclusion to the Dragoneye series and a week after finishing I am still have trouble sorting my thoughts and feelings on the book.

My love for Eona that carried over from Eon dwindled slowly throughout the book. Eona's lies became like a cancer slowly eating away at me. She rarely does the right thing or make the right decision and she uses her friends to justify her own cruel lies. However, you can say she does it all to try to survive but who doesn't or can't trust Kygo our prince?

Eona's relationship with Ido the constant love vs. hate struggle interests me to no end, and in the final chapters of the book when she is forced to pick between Ido's selfish love or Kygo's chauvinistic brand it really is hard for the reader to know Eona's mind enough to predict an ending. Eona is after all a very unreliable character.

The book is violent and bloody with equal parts of action and downtime. Nancy Wu did such an AMAZING job with the narration of this book. I am not sure I would have finished it on paper. It's long, and in the years it took Goodman to finish the sequel it seems like most of the characters had changed into a different being. I didn't feel like I was picking up where we left of in Eon even though that is the exact point you pick up.

This doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the book, or love the ending because I did, so very much. It just means Goodman and Wu both did an excellent job conveying the contemplation of the characters and still after a week I am contemplating their actions as well.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Meh. June 7, 2012

By SoccerKnight

Format:Paperback

Eon was an interesting story with a strong female lead. I was looking forward to reading this book, since I was promised that everything would be revealed. Well, I was right in the fact that I now know everything I need to. I'm just not happy with how it turned out.
All right, I'll flip this around and start with the positives.
1) The world of Eon is expanded on tremendously in this book. In fact, it feels like almost half the story is taken up with describing the culture and people who inhabit the land the author created.
2) All of my questions were answered.
And now the negatives.
1) The worldbuilding really detracts and distracts from the plot. Great if you love that kind of thing, which I do, but not good for the story itself.
2) The characters all apparently transformed into idiots between books. Puzzles that they can't wrap their minds around were solved by me within seconds of reading them. And these puzzles are the crux of the plot. Which quickly becomes uninteresting, since the reader already knows what's happening.
3) Eona, once a BA character, seems to have degenerated into a meek female whose only job is to advise the old emperor. And this from a female author. Shame.
4) The ending is highly disappointing. As in, I want to write my own alternate ending, I'm so dissatisfied.
I'd reccommend this book to anyone who read Eon, but only because it answers the questions left from the first book. Beyond that, I felt empty and a little let down.

23 of 30 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Bad Female Lead June 18, 2011

By Vixen VINE™ VOICE

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

Well, the book really does grab you. I couldn't put it down.

I was disappointed with the lack of development in Eona's character. Eona makes bad decisions and even when something goes down that isn't her fault, everyone blames her anyway - its not like she knew what would happen when she healed Ryko, but everyone blamed her for what was done to both him and the village they were in at the time. I expected her to be stronger, wiser, in this second book, but its like she learned nothing from the events from the first. Then though there was some sword play, and it was cool seeing her kick a little ass, there wasn't really any to speak of. Most of the fighting and sacrifices was all done by other people. She just kind of stood to the side and spoke on cue. It was just sad. She was like that in the first book but it was understandable given the situation, being thrust into this very new place and not understanding what was going on, but in this book I just expected a much stronger heroine, one that would communicate with others instead of keeping secrets as that did not work out so well for her in the first book, a heroine that I could stand behind, be proud of. But instead she was exactly the same and frankly, it was a bit embarrassing. By the end of it I just thought she was stupid.

And then the author decided that it would make perfect sense for Eona to develop romantic feelings for and even make out with Ido, the man who tried to RAPE her. Not that having feelings for the prince, Kygo, considering how many times he betrayed her trust, insulted her, and used her, made any more sense.

I won't be reading this book again, ever. These books are okay for maybe a little weekend escapism but I wouldn't recommend them for young, impressionable girls.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars The first book was much better July 3, 2011

By Speaksilent.

Format:Hardcover

I just finished reading this and I have to say, this was awful. The first book was much better and more compelling to read. The second book I had to force myself to read through it. Eona is a very annoying and weak character and there seems to be very little progress through out. Most of it is just Eona feeling afraid, angry, and insecure and her going through teenage angst. She wasn't the strong woman I liked in the first book and there was absolutely no character development of the new characters in this book. There were no exciting parts to read and when there were potentially good parts, the author did not bother to follow them. I would absolutely not recommend this book.