Amazon’s Number 6 Top Reviewer gives Tribes of Eden four out of five stars!
A Cautionary Tale – Recommended, January 13, 2012
This review is from: Tribes of Eden (Kindle Edition)“Tribes of Eden” is a cautionary tale set in the near future. I enjoy Sci-Fi novels so was pleased to be offered a review copy of this book by the publisher.
No plot spoilers from me: This is an interesting story that tracks the collapse of American society (“The Fall”) and the emergence of a new order known as the GRID. While the GRID offers order and stability through it’s walled enclosed towns and on-line, virtual social structure, it is authoritarian and repressive and supports revisionist history. Add to this a collective of back to basics villages that were established before “The Fall”, populated by a freedom and truth loving community that resists absorption into the GRID, and there is plenty of room for a serious clash of cultures.
Strong themes of family values and the importance of honoring elders for the contributions they have made and the knowledge and wisdom they possess run through the story line. These tie in directly to the message the author wants to convey and it works fairly well.
I enjoyed the writing style and the flow of the story that moved along at reasonable pace. Like all Sci-Fi, there is the required suspension of disbelief and acceptance of the author’s portrayal of character’s reactions and motives. In a few places I found certain situations and reactions hard to accept, but nothing that took away overmuch from the story.
Recommended!
CFH
