Review by Kelley Crawford

In the first book of Victoria Foyt’s series Save the Pearls, Eden is a seventeen-year-old girl that has mating on her mind. As a pearl (a white-skinned person) she is the outcast of her post-apocalyptic society, and finding a mate is the only thing that will save her from The Heat—aka death by sun. Choosing the wrong man at first and then judging the next man in her life too soon eventually leaves Eden to her own devices when it comes to survival. Yet, now that her life begins to revolve more around her choices as she moves to a new world and a new set of obstacles, Eden starts to be revealed to everyone—including herself.

 The last two chapters of Save the Pearls Part One: Revealing Eden were the only chapters that captured my full attention. Eden’s judgmental, sporadically desirous, and tenacious personality was often unfounded rather than vindicated. The other characters in the novel are also one-dimensional—even though Foyt tries to create a layer of dimensions with the different fantasy worlds in the book.

 Bottom Line: I will not be on the lookout for Part Two of Save the Pearls

 Audience: If you liked Blood and Chocolate (Annette Curtis Klause) or New Moon (The second book in Stephanie Myer’s Twilight series), then Saving the Pearls Part One: Revealing Eden would interest you.