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Dark Eden di Patrick Carman
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Dark Eden (edizione 2011)

di Patrick Carman (Autore), Dan Bittner (Narratore)

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Fifteen-year-old Will Besting is sent by his doctor to Fort Eden, an institution meant to help patients suffering from crippling phobias. Once there, Will and six other teenagers take turns in mysterious fear chambers and confront their worst nightmares??with the help of the group facilitator, Rainsford, an enigmatic guide. When the patients emerge from the chamber, they feel emboldened by the previous night's experiences. But each person soon discovers strange, unexplained aches and pains...What is really happening to the seven teens trapped in this dark Eden?

Patrick Carman's Dark Eden is a provocative exploration of fear, betrayal, memory, and??ultimately??immortal… (altro)

Utente:aethercowboy
Titolo:Dark Eden
Autori:Patrick Carman (Autore)
Altri autori:Dan Bittner (Narratore)
Info:HarperAudio (2011)
Collezioni:GT3, Letti ma non posseduti, Have read, Audiobook, 2021 (inactive)
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This book was very strange. Since Carman is the author of the Skeleton Creek series, I expected a fun, scary book with a lot of action. Instead, the book just felt very weak. The plot twists didn't add up, and the characters were watered down too much to get interested in them. ( )
  kamlibrarian | Dec 23, 2022 |
I'm immediately suspicious of any book covered in QR codes that has, like, exclamation points instructing readers to download the app and the game that goes with the book. This just wasn't very well written and it made no sense. Abandoned after about 60 pages.
  readingjag | Nov 29, 2021 |
Will's been in therapy, but his psychologist tells him that she can't do anything more for him: he needs to go to Dark Eden with six other kids and face his fear. But what this woman doesn't know is that Will's already listened to audio files that tell him about these other kids, and he's not about to go quietly.

I expected a little bit of a horror novel, but what I got was more suspense. The plot starts slowly setting the stage and builds quickly to the denouement. The suspense and plot drive the narrative rather than characterization, so this is a fast read and probably not one I'd read again to get any more out of. However, it is really compelling and the ending had me gasping in surprise, ready to read the sequel. ( )
  bell7 | Jul 22, 2014 |
I liked this book! ohhhh the twists. One after another it just came at you. The idea of the plot is interesting by itself. A bunch of teens at an institution trying to deal with their own fears. Some of their fears were horrifying and made you want to cringe when you read through them. I liked how the book was divided up into their own fears (with the appropriate pictures to accompany it).

The plot was good, the twists were appropriately placed and the overall mood of the story was dark and suitable. The characters were all right, I can’t really say they were likable. It was more like they were just there for your reading pleasure. I liked the explanation and the back story as to why this institution was created. I wasn’t expecting that AT ALL. It’s creative, and different and puts an interesting spin on this story. The ending leaves you wondering what’s going to happen but it keeps you curious and wanting more.

The second book is out already and I’m going to grab it. The ending of Dark Eden was good enough to get me curious as to what was going to happen next. YA readers would enjoy this one. Especially fans who want a thriller. ( )
  sensitivemuse | Jun 19, 2012 |
Review Courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales

Quick and Dirty: This thriller will leave you wondering what will happen to the characters next as they face their fears, and possibly your own.

Opening Sentence: Why are you hiding in this room all alone?

The Review:

What’s initially interesting about this book is that it is also interactive. There is an app, or you can get the same experience at this website, that will provide sound, images, text, and video related to the book. Some people may not enjoy the multimedia version, but I did check it out after I read the book.

Our narrator, Will Besting, is sent to a weekend retreat by his doctor with six other teenagers as a last resort to help confront and control their individual phobias. He has prior knowledge of the other patients since he secretly copied their sessions off of Dr. Steven’s computer. Upon arriving at the camp, Will leaves the group and fends for himself. He finds a small, unused room in the basement filled with old computer monitors. With no other options except for returning to the group, he camps out in the room for the weekend. Soon he finds out that the monitors are connected to hidden cameras in the house where the other teens are.

Will seems like an average teen boy who doesn’t feel like he fits in anywhere. He is a loner, and the only person he feels close to is his brother, Keith. While watching the monitors that turn on and off by themselves, Will gets to know the other teenagers. Their host, Rainsford, says that he has a way that will cure them all of their phobias. Will watches on as one by one each person is led into a room created especially for them as they relive their worst fears. Through the technology that Rainsford uses, Will is able to actually watch what each person sees in their head. Though he may not like the others, he feels closer to them as he experiences their fears. I liked how Patrick Carman used a range of characters, all with distinct phobias, to show how fear does not discriminate.

The other teens are Alex, Ben, and Connor, who are male, and Avery, Kate, and Marisa, who are female. Of course, Will does not feel comfortable with any of them, except Marisa, who is quiet and nice. For the first time in a while, Will has felt somewhat close to someone when he is with Marisa. He sneaks out of the room late at night to talk with her about what is going on. Both of them are reserved about taking part in Rainsford’s cure as the other teens seem to have odd side effects afterwards. Another teen named Davis comes by the fort, and assures them that he was cured a while back by Rainsford, which adds more suspense as to what is really going on.

As the book continues, we start to wonder what is with Rainsford’s “cures” and why no effort has been made to find out where Will is. They are in the middle of nowhere, and one of their patients are missing. We do get answers at the very end that made me interested to know what will happen next. Also, there is a definite shocker ending! Since it was just barely introduced, I expect Carman to go into more depth with the character of Rainford in the next installment.

This is not meant to be a super scary or psychologically chilling novel. It explores fear and mystery, and how that can affect a person, especially a teenager. The twister ending does require discussion, but that will have to wait for the next book!

Notable Scene:

I walked to the back of the basement, along the edge of the shelves that held the cans of food, and found one more door. This door was not like the others, which were all made of heavy timber and had iron hinges. The door I stood in front of was made of metal, like a freezer, and on the front a word stenciled with red paint.

BOMB SHELTER

I don’t fear enclosed spaces; in fact, I like them quite a bit more than wide-open cafeterias or ball fields. But the words had a ring of finality. It was a place people went if the word was coming to an end.

There was a pin on a chain holding a freezer handle in place. The pin emitted a sharp sound of metal as I removed it and let it hang from the chain like a body swinging from a noose. The handle was cold in my hand, but it pulled easily enough, and the door to bomb shelter was open.

A curb ran along the bottom edge, and I stepped over it, peering into a strange and secret place. Before I knew it I was inside, discovering a knob that clicked once and then turned, bringing up the light.

I had come to the farthest corner of where I could go; and, turning around, I pulled the door in close behind me, just shy of locking myself in.

The Dark Eden Series:

1. Dark Eden

2. Eve of Destruction

FTC Advisory: Harper Teen provided me a copy of Dark Eden. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review. ( )
  DarkFaerieTales | Feb 27, 2012 |
A spooky, psychological thriller. Will Besting, 15, is afraid. The fear that he feels is irrational, a byproduct of a traumatic event he experienced as a child that he can’t fully remember. His therapist Dr. Stevens, seeing no other way to help him, refers him to a mysterious man named Rainsford, who works out of an old, abandoned army base. After arriving at Fort Eden with six other patients, Will makes a break for it and manages to sequester himself in an old, nearly abandoned bunker with a mysterious bomb shelter. From there, he is able to monitor what happens at the base using old surveillance equipment. He witnesses silently as the other patients begin their “cures” in earnest but can’t shake the suspicion that something at the base is really wrong, just below the surface. Further complicating his hidden observations is Davis, a former graduate of Fort Eden who both encourages the other patients and begins to hunt for Will in earnest. Will serves as an outsider among outsiders, unwilling to be cured of his fears by the seemingly amoral Dr. Stevens and Rainsford. A crotchety old cook serves as both comic relief and as chief antagonist, with the suspenseful threat of her discovering Will right under her nose always looming. With seven different characters who have seven different fears, there is bound to be someone for readers to relate to in one way or another. While elements of this story may at first seem predictable, the supernatural twist at the end will leave teens with more questions than answers.
 

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Horror. Suspense. Young Adult Fiction. HTML:

Fifteen-year-old Will Besting is sent by his doctor to Fort Eden, an institution meant to help patients suffering from crippling phobias. Once there, Will and six other teenagers take turns in mysterious fear chambers and confront their worst nightmares??with the help of the group facilitator, Rainsford, an enigmatic guide. When the patients emerge from the chamber, they feel emboldened by the previous night's experiences. But each person soon discovers strange, unexplained aches and pains...What is really happening to the seven teens trapped in this dark Eden?

Patrick Carman's Dark Eden is a provocative exploration of fear, betrayal, memory, and??ultimately??immortal

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