Comments on: Dividing Eden by Joelle Charbonneau

By: Jessica Wunder

Jessica Wunder — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:55:19 +0000

Tom,
Thanks for reading and commenting!
I don’t think the deficiencies are related to the YA status of the book. I’ve come across plenty of other YA novels that have a richer sense of world building, fully realized (and appropriately flawed) characters and don’t suffer from “telling”.

The Harry Potter series is the first title that comes to mind (it is considered YA I believe) but it’s not the only one.

One of my favorite YA series is the “Lunar Chronicles” series by Marissa Meyer. It’s not perfect and I wish there was more explanation and exploration of the world building, but I think it does a good job using interesting world building concepts in such a way that the world feels “natural”. The author is very good at “showing” us the setting, and the characters are fairly well developed.

By: Tom Brennan

Tom Brennan — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 19:32:11 +0000

Are these deficiencies due in part to the novel being for young adult readers?

Can you give an example of a YA novel that does that this novel attempts to do, but better?

By: Jessica Wunder

Jessica Wunder — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 04:20:50 +0000

In reply to Desirai Labrada. It was very info dumpy, especially in the last third. I've heard that the sequel is coming out Summer of next year (2018).

By: Desirai Labrada

Desirai Labrada — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 02:37:46 +0000

That cover is pretty sexy. It sounds like the story was a little info dumpy. I might try just listening to the audiobook from the library. I wonder how long before the second book comes out.