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#TBRPile 📚 John Rendleton lives in Eden, one of the 532 descendants of two stranded astronauts. Slowly starving and huddling underneath a sunless sky, his family waits for the ships to come back for them, even after six generations of isolation. But John refuses to wait. He will break the laws of Eden, abandon the old ways, venture into the Dark beyond the family‘s lands, and discover the truth about Eden.

Congratulations on the 100k! That's amazing @mitch

If you could fix it for me to #completetheseries with Doors of Stone, book three in the Kingkiller chronicles, that'd be awesome 😘
Or perhaps more realistic, I'd like to read book 2 of the dark Eden series. I have 1 and 3 on my Kindle, but not 2 🤔

This has quite a poor score on Litsy, but I really liked it. It imagines a group of humans, descendants of two explorers left stranded on a planet, as they make a community on a dark planet. And what happens when one of them tries to change the status quo. Really interesting exploration of power dynamics, gender and religion.

Donating blood = free reading time! (If you've never done it before, it's super easy and doesn't hurt)

Taking inspiration from Douglas Adams perhaps?

This took me a while to get through. A pretty interesting concept and pretty good story but just long and a little tedious.

Thank you @MommyOfTwo for the beautiful homemade blanket and book! Your stitching is so precise that I think it will be impervious to my beast of a dog! Thank you for making my first swap so much fun😀 #blanketandabookswap

I loved a lot of covers this year, but if pressed I'd pick this one for #favoritecover of #allthebooksof2017 because of the prism effect on the front ❤

Great dystopian literature. A book that takes place in the future that is absolutely amaZing

Set on an alien sunless planet a tribe of people known as Family live in a small valley that they have been taught never to leave for generations. Young John Lantern decides to break with tradition and venture outside into Dark, fracturing Family in the process. A fantastic and unique sci-fi coming of age tale.

My alternating audiobooks for my daily commute. One for thinking and the other for turning off my brain and escaping to a fantasy world.

My author with the #samename is Chris Beckett. My favorite modern science fiction writer. His most famous work is his Dark Eden series which starts with this novel. An intelligent and fascinating story about the evolution of a stranded tribe of humans on a remote beautiful planet. Explores issues such as prejudice, religion and power struggles. I'm looking forward to reading the third installment which was released a few months ago. #riotgrams

For #booktober #outofthisworld book, Dark Eden immediately came to mind. Very much like Orson Scott Card. A colony springs from 2 astronauts left behind - their society development is fascinating, as is the religion that forms from their ancestor-worship. Fascinating.

The biggest problem I have with this book is the voice. The author switches character points of view with each chapter and I like that concept, only he doesn't have a distinctive voice or style for each character. That really bothers me for some reason. I'm still trying to like the novel, though.

I really enjoy how this book is centered on that "against the grain" sort of thinking that I value so highly.

I'm only less than 100 pages in, but it's quite an interesting concept. I'm waiting to see if I get hooked completely or not.