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Eos (The Eos Dawn Series Book 1) by [Jen Guberman]

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How far would you go for freedom? After a world war left the country in ruins, the survivors regrouped, creating four cities. With the population lower than ever, the prison system became impossible to maintain, so the city officials developed the Exile Town System… Avid—a literal dump for the thieves, Bellicose—caverns for the violent, Clamorite—mountains for the unruly, Delaisse—factories for the addicts and vandals, and Equivox—a lake for the liars. When a young thief learns about the Skeleton Key, a device that can be used to unlock anything, she can’t help but to go after it. But there’s a catch—in order to unlock the box containing it, she needs a key from each of the exile towns, which turn out to be far more dangerous than she could have imagined.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08199MZVY
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 10, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5543 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 340 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,289,293 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,101 in Teen & Young Adult Dystopian eBooks
- #3,542 in Teen & Young Adult Dystopian
- #9,529 in Dystopian Fiction (Books)

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Jen Guberman isn’t a New York Time’s bestselling author, and she has no critical acclaims, but her mom thinks her books are pretty good. She graduated from Gardner-Webb University with her Bachelor’s in Communications & New Media, and now she works as a marketing content writer. Jen lives with her husband and their one-eyed cat, Camden, in Huntersville, North Carolina.

For more information about Jen or her writing, please visit: www.UberGuberman.com

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Allison M

Intriguing read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2023

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What a journey Eos went on! This book had me enthralled in what was going to happen next. Who were really bad guys, and good guys- some surprises. I definitely enjoyed it!

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Anne

I'm ordering the 2nd book now.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 11, 2019

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I don't read allot of fiction, and I don't write reviews but here goes. This was a fun easy read that was perfect for me at the end of a long day of work. It is written in the first person, which connected with me. It has likable and well defined characters, and an interesting plot. The story takes place in a made up world, during an undefined time, after an unknown war. This world has organized itself using some simple precepts that the protagonist gets caught up in the effects of. The writer uses the story line to make side commentaries on social issues, but not so much that it takes away from the simple storyline if that's all you want out of it. I can't wait to see where the author takes this. I'm ordering the 2nd book now.

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BC

Fantastic debut!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 7, 2021

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This book was a pleasant surprise and fulfilled my desire for a good dystopian story! Characters were unique and I loved the smidge of romance that the author sprinkles into the story.

Lots of mystery with some fun actin scenes that kept me turning pages. A very good debut and I look forward to reading the rest of the series!

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J Smith

Better options available

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 26, 2021

Money better spent on much higher quality options in the genre

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Anonymous

Wonderful Dystopian novel

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 7, 2021

This book is a great read, especially if you just want to sit back, relax, and get lost in a world that is a little more messed up than ours. I truly enjoyed escaping through this book. The entire series is amazing. Would suggest!

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Andrew Hindle

Spoiler: The carrots probably don't survive this neglect

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 13, 2021

I’m torn when it comes to characterising this book as a young adult dystopian sci-fi in the vein of Maze Runner and The Hunger Games, but those were the stories I was reminded of as I was reading. That’s just a risk of this subgenre, and I know it will read as a point in favour to some and a point against to others. Personally, even though I wouldn’t say I’m a fan of young adult dystopian sci-fi, it’s solid entertainment and Eos Dawn can easily stand next to Katniss Whatsherface without feeling self-conscious.

And just for the record, I didn’t hate the Hunger Games series as I read it. It was good escapist fun and said some interesting things about humanity. Eos, in my opinion, might say even more (potentially) – and that’s pretty darn cool. I’d watch movies of this, and I’d definitely snoot about how I read the book first, and the book is better. Also I read it before it was cool.

Anyway, let’s get into the meat a bit more.

Eos tells the story of a post-cataclysmic-war world where the known population is restricted to a handful of cities because of the radiation and other devastation. Travel between cities is strictly controlled, and society frighteningly regulated. Any threats to this regulated existence, from violent crime to just kind of being a sassmouth, are neatly removed and placed in “exile towns” according to their category of non-conformity. This is a rather cool concept and makes for a nice self-contained story map (literally) with lots of potential for expansion. And the names of the exile towns are clever.

Eos Dawn is, at least on initial impression, an extraordinarily gullible and naïve thief who puts up with people being [REDACTED]s to her at least three more times than she should at the outset. And she’s given one, what, half-hour job to do each day and somehow forgets to do it after two days? [REDACTED] me. But here’s the thing: that’s a very human and relatable set of failings (and it doesn’t really matter, since we don’t get bogged down in that [REDACTED] pseudo-normal nine-to-five thing anyway). I’m just saying, it’s not hard to water a garden if that’s the one thing you have to do the entire day. I just – fine. Bygones. Moving on.

Eos isn’t your typical hero, who after an obligatory period of angst immediately sets about righting wrongs and taking names. No, Eos is a big dumb-dumb who isn’t really great at anything, and even a couple of learning curves and a training montage later, she’s still getting herself needled with knockout drugs (which seem to be everywhere, but are we even surprised? This is an authoritarian Everybody Be Nice dystopia after all). Everything she does is kind of seat-of-the-pants and she doesn’t seem to get bitter and broody about it. She just sighs and throws up her hands and goes 'you see what I have to deal with here?' Her quest isn’t for justice and unity or anything else. It just seems like something she’s doing because it’s slightly more interesting than watering the [REDACTED] – fine.

Yeah, I thought it was a fun read. There are some clumsy segments of dialogue and inserted thought-statements explaining what is going on in the story – they looked to be added in to clarify what had just happened in case the reader missed it, and in some cases they’re necessary because the scene was misleading, and in some cases they’re not necessary and serve to pull the reader out of the moment … but none of it ultimately interferes with the simple and highly imaginative narrative and setting.

Sure, there’s a few issues with the world Guberman has created here. It all seems very flimsy and prone to security breaches, and with all the apparent malcontents and people with … let’s be generous and call them skills … outside in the exile towns, it’s hard to believe they haven’t just busted out and overthrown the cities before now. Maybe the second and third books in the trilogy go into more detail about this. The nature of the war that destroyed everything is also unexplored, but that’s not a deal-breaker. We only need to know it happened. It wiped out things like birds and rabbits, but the hunting teams still bring in game … I’m not certain about that, but eh. It all works. The Fabian set-up and pay-off, once we get to it, seemed a little too miraculous to me. Some more earning of that coincidence would have been nice, but the ultimate ending of that thread helped me get over it.

And what’s with the daggers? They definitely mean something and we need to know.

As I said, this is the first book in a trilogy – it had a nice cliffhanger ending, leaving the reader all too ready to one-click purchase the next instalment for the ol’ kindle, but did not leave the first book wanting for a proper beginning, middle and end. I like the symmetry of the click … click storytelling device.

So what else have we got?

[REDACTED]-o-meter

Solid and rather innocent young adult fare, barring the occasional assault-and-near-[REDACTED] one should probably expect when detailing a journey through dystopian penal settlements populated almost entirely by specific types of violent criminals. Hey, at least there wasn’t a Fiddlerville[1]. I award Eos twelve and a half shades of grey out of a possible you know the [REDACTED] how many shades don’t make me say it.

Gore-o-meter

Not much violence in this story – a throat-slashing, a gut-stabbing and a head-on-floor bashing, along with some random fights and stuff … okay I guess it had its share of gore. Two flesh-gobbets out of a possible five.

WT[REDACTED]-o-meter

How did this whole world happen? What was the nature of the war and is there anything left outside the (apparently) inhospitable nuclear wastelands? How are they feeding people now that Eos stopped watering the carrots (no I will not let this go)? How did they even start with the truck routes and lockup system and where are the rations coming from? Are they people? Is the mystery meat people? Why all the fuss over a key that can open stuff that can generally be opened in other ways? What are we missing from this story’s past? There’s a lot of WT[REDACTED] here, to be sure, but it’s mostly unanswered-questions WT[REDACTED] rather than the higher-grade uncut surreal WT[REDACTED] I need in my veins. Nevertheless, I’ll give it a polar bear dressed up as The Fonz out of a possible The Fonz dressed up as a polar bear.

My Final Verdict

Eos was an enjoyable read and was a great introduction to a fascinating and troubling world where society comes at the cost of all the things that make society robust and vibrant (but I mean, yeah, if people could stop stealing and killing, that’d be nice). A little more exploration of the different interwoven threads – the thieves who steal out of poverty and oppression, the noise polluters who are just speaking out against injustice, the privileged joy-riders who just got kicked out because therapy is hard – might have been nice to see, but there’s a lot going on under the surface. I remain uncertain just how much of a video game MacGuffin the assorted keys and boxes and the final goal were, but it was fun to watch it unfold. Solid three stars on the Amazon / Goodreads scale.

[1] For … people who play the violin badly. What? What did you think I was going to suggest? Yeesh.

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ryan bloszinsky

Outstanding storyline

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 4, 2021

Great read and the storyline is captivating! Excited to start the next book!

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Jordan

Very well-written

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 6, 2021

Excellent read!

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