The Garden of Good and Eden (An Eden Daire Novel Book 1)

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Eden Daire has known her whole life that she was different than everyone else. Not just because she was adopted into a large Catholic family in rural Kentucky, but because she could do things that no one else could do. Things like make plants grow at will, communicate with animals, and even heal them when they were sick. No one seems to have any answers: All that changes on the eve of her 25th birthday when her whole world comes crashing down around her to reveal secrets and creatures she had never known existed. And they all seem to think that she is the key to an ancient prophecy that will topple kingdoms.

On top of all that, a different type of threat is looming over her beloved family and she's the only one that can stop it in its tracks. How will she balance the love and commitment she feels to her adopted family and the new power and responsibility that comes with finally getting the answers to her past?

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Her world will never be the same again Kindle Edition , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Garden of Good and Eden , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The Garden of Good and Eden. How would Lord of the Rings look if Sauron were the hero?

There he is, just trying to rule his lands, when the races of Men et al decide to overthrow him. Even the trees get in on the action! Although this type of story clearly lends itself to parodies of existing work, I for one am keen to explore my options on this. Shades of grey, people. But not beyond forty-nine….

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Some will never be identified, but they are all important. Germany was not wiped off the map, after all. Their survivors have their own stories to tell. Their own History is quietly grieving in the shadows under the oak trees. This stupid fecking draft will not die. Did I even make it to 25k? It was another year for personal growth as I got swamped with work projects and refused to bury my head in writing to cope with it. There are those really gripping books you read where there are good but boring bits in between the good scenes where all the cool stuff happens.

I need to keep those subtle hooks as well as the big T-Rex claws. And the more stuff I go back over the more I want to change. I spent a lot of time back in writing it for NaNoWriMo where the goal is just to write a lot of words. So the first bit has had a lot of pruning for completely pointless waffle. But the middle bit is now problematic. Take scenes out here, put them in there. Build the tension, spin it out, ramp it up. There has to be a certain amount of deliberate construction.

I know I can. I can do the good words thing. Stringing together sentences and paragraphs and whole chapters that go somewhere… I have done that. At least for the story to get to a conclusion. Is she acting realistically? I am afraid of entering Marysue Town. To some extent yes you need the readers to buy into the fantasy and wish to be that person on their thrill ride, but on the other hand, teens are smart. So are adults who read YA. I have to get to the end. It deserves an ending. Here we are on 20 th September. August got away from me before I knew it.

I had a lovely holiday and then it was back to work, and so the quilt had a lot of things templated up but nothing really done.

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So far, I have: It does feel like more of it is done than I think, and that it will come together pretty quickly. I was trucking along nicely, adding the bottom piece of skirt wreath with some killer zig-zag topstitch, when the foot level broke off! Just enough left to still vaguely work, so I locked off and got the fabric out, but… dayum. In the process I managed to get glue all over my hands and tip over a chair covered in clean clothes.

I read both available Eden Daire books one after the other, having found them through a random RT and thought the premise was interesting. I have to mention that there were a few typos in the books, though my review is on the content. Eden Daire has known her whole life that she was different than everyone else. Not just because she was adopted into a large Catholic family in rural Kentucky, but because she could do things that no one else could do.

Things like make plants grow at will, communicate with animals, and even heal them when they were sick. No one seems to have any answers: All that changes on the eve of her 25th birthday when her whole world comes crashing down around her to reveal secrets and creatures she had never known existed. And they all seem to think that she is the key to an ancient prophecy that will topple kingdoms. How will she balance the love and commitment she feels to her adopted family and the new power and responsibility that comes with finally getting the answers to her past?

Her world will never be the same again…. On the whole I enjoyed these books, taken as they are. The pace was good and the over-arching story has so much potential that the two sub-stories that make up these books are given proper treatment and come to satisfactory conclusions. The main premise is that there are three warring factions: Earth, Sky and Sea. Eden, the protagonist, is at the centre of this conflict.

She lives in Kentucky, with a huge extended family more on that later and has always been different. As the story progresses, the tension between the human world and the supernatural world builds nicely and Eden gets some good meaty decisions to make about her destiny. The powers that Terra and Eden share are clearly defined and demonstrated, and are finite. A lot of the style of these books reminds me of the Southern Vampire books by Charlaine Harris. She is a strong young woman, and acts decisively.

Eden has so many relatives I just had to let it wash over me. By dint of being juuuust outside The South, the Daires avoid total hillbilly, huge redneck family status, but only just. There is some family conflict in Getting Eden with Starla and Pharaoh, which makes up for this a little.

The other thing is that despite being twenty-four years old, successful or not, too many of the older family defer to her. Yes, she has magical greenfingers, but the Daire family have their own skills and ventures and intelligence. The other big gripe I have with this series is the inclusion of vampires. There was already so much stuff to play with: Or dwarves and gnomes. But the vampires… I felt like the grandson in the Princess Bride, being tricked into reading a kissing book.

Granted, the main vampire character, Patrick, is not a constant presence and the rest of the story chugs along nicely, but why not a dryad or a minotaur? Or an Amazon, since the author is happy to include homosexual relationships with side characters hoorah for normalising non-hetero couples! What is the big obsession with vampires and werewolves? Is it the fangs? The mystery and romanticism of the night? This comes up when Eden is learning about who and what she is, with Terra and Demetrius telling her that myths are partly true. Eden has read Greek myths. It sort of jarred with the rest of the story.

Like Oakes sort of wanted to write a vampire romance but tucked it away inside an already strong premise.

As I said, though, Patrick is not around all the time and hopefully in the next book the vampires will be out of the picture. I am interested to see where the story goes, and will be keeping an eye out for the next one. I want to see Amara develop, and more of the Storm Riders, and Boone getting more badass. I've lived in Kentucky my whole life and I love my state and the people in it I'm an avid reader and have been writing on and off since I was 12 years old and have wanted to be an author forever.

I started by publishing my first ever book, "The Garden of Good and Eden" in September and I couldn't be more excited! More than anything else, I just want people to enjoy my book and love the characters as much as I do. I love when readers give me honest feedback in reviews, even if it is just a sentence or two. If the majority of readers enjoy my books, that will be the real measure of my success as a storyteller.

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