Dividing Eden

TWO SIBLINGS ONE CROWN, ABATTLE THAT NO ONE CAN WIN...

Review by bbreview14 Contains spoilers for the ones who have not read it yet…

Rating 5/5 stars

Eden is a city filled with light and dark secrets. When king Ulron and Prince Micah are brought back dead the elders are ready to place a new line of royalty on the throne until a seer brings about a new way to pick a king/queen. Since both princess carys and prince Andreus was born on the same day, they must go through a set of trials…to the victor goes the spoils of the kingdom. The seer also predicts two paths. One leading to the light of Eden and the other to the destruction of Eden and the path of darkness. Both carys and andreus hold secrets….andreus was told from birth that he was cursed. Cursed with a pain that would kill him if the elders found out. Carys secret is an addiction to a drug that keeps her from feeling pain but she is also pledged to protecting her twin from his secret being found out.

Andreus falls in love with the seer Imogene who twist his mind into believing that carys is out to kill him and take the crown as her own. Believing that the elders are on his side he fights to win the crown away from her and in doing so fills his heart with hate for her.

Carys knows the truth. She knows Imogen had her brother and father killed and when she is attacked by the seer and kills her she does all she can to tell her twin in order to keep him on her side. During the last trial Andreus leaves carys to die in the dark alone…in doing so he brings about darkness and with it the crown….but is he really in control and is carys really dead in the end??

The story is told from both POVs from Andreus and carys. The plot is set around their secret and a truth that will change the game forever. I found this book to be enjoyable. It had good twist and turns a few plots I never guessed coming, but it also never left me with wanting to just put it down…I wanted to continue reading the story until the very end and I believe this will be one of many in the dividing Eden trilogy.

The trials Well let’s just say with the period this book was written a few of the beginning trials did not seem to fit with the books plot. I didn’t care for the foot race, nor the fighting to knock the other into a pit of mud which really did not seem to go with the story as it should have. However the trials did pick up in pace and gave the story a nice action packed feel that would draw readers in.

Andreus His character was that of a jealous twin. Always in his brothers shadow and then in his twin sisters. He was the kind person in the beginning that took weak children off the streets and gave them a chance to live…an idle. But he like most men was corrupted by lust. A lust for a woman in bed with him at all times and a mother whispering in his ear with encouragement for his actions. His goal was to lust Imogen into his bed and once she was she had him under her spell weaving lies and distrust for his sister. Which in the beginning he did love his sister and like most twins he was close to her but you could also tell he was jealous of her. Of the way she was always there to save him and keep his secret safe.

Carys Carys is the hero of this story. She does not let lust feel her heart like most heros do so in the end she did not try to win for the heart of anyone but for her brother. Since training to protect her brother since her mother told her too. She knew how to tell that her father and brother was killed from their own men and not by the hand of a different king. So she begins asking questions and questioning the loyalties of the elders whose oaths mean nothing in the end. Carys decides to make sure that Andreus wins the crown no matter what…she will stand by him like a loyal sister should and protect his secret curse from ever being found out. But when the seer Imogene attacks her and she is left with no choice than to kill her; she finds out that it’s not her brother that is cursed but instead she herself. And the medicine her mother addicted her too is not a cure for her pain but instead a way to keep her powers hidden from her and her kingdom.

The curse made no sense. Carys had a power to control the wind….possible even be able to see the future but that is all we know until the next book. Andreus has a weak heart which causes him to get overly excited and pass out. So really this made no sense in the book plot.

Imogen She should not have died. Not this early in the book I believe she should of played it out to the next book to make the seers power more interesting to want to know about.

In all this book was amazing and I could not stop reading it. I recommend this book and encourage the writer to continue the story but please don’t drag it on for more than at least three to four books. I don’t believe the overall idea and interest in this book will stick long as long as this same plot is played out.