The Pearl Diver (Seven Worlds Saga Book 1), by S. Elliot Brandis
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I’m Elsie, from the planet Caelum. It’s 96% ocean, but that’s okay. Out of all six planets (or seven, if you believe the myths), we’re the only people with gills. I can breathe underwater for minutes at a time, discovering the secrets of the deep-sea. Diving is my first love. But not everybody understands. Each year they run a competition—a single black pearl is dropped into the ocean, and graduating students dive to find it. It sounds easy, but it’s not. The ocean is a dark and dangerous place, with caves, crevices, and flesh-eating creatures. Some years, not everybody survives. It’s how my brother died. My parents won’t let me compete. At times it seems like the whole island is against me. I don’t care. I will enrol, win, and gain the ultimate prize—a job diving on the head planet of the entire system. I’ll do whatever it takes. I’ll fight for a better life, out there in the stars. I will be the Pearl Diver. Or die trying.
The Pearl Diver (Seven Worlds Saga Book 1), by S. Elliot Brandis- Amazon Sales Rank: #655959 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-24
- Released on: 2015-05-24
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. A Pearl of a YA Novel By ConsumerAdvocate (dakotad555) at (gmail) dot (com) THE PEARL DIVER is an imaginative light-dystopian science fiction novel featuring better than average prose. What sets the book apart is the tone and atmosphere far more than the plot (which is interesting if a bit too similar to other YA dystopian offerings). Vast oceans, tiny pinpricks of land, humans that have evolved gills--no, this isn't a rehash of the terrible Kevin Costner movie Waterworld. Nor is it a rehash of The Hunger Games, though it shares some notable similarities with the best seller in the genre. As they say, good artists borrow, great artists steal. THE PEARL DIVER steals a few things, borrows a few others, and wraps them up with a great deal of original imagination to make a pleasing story.Like many YA dystopias, THE PEARL DIVER introduces a contest (though far less barbaric than the one featured in THE HUNGER GAMES) that the heroine must win: locating the illusive black pear. Dropped into the ocean by the enigmatic ruling class Dunamians, students graduating from their school (17-18-year-olds) may take their chances scouring the ocean floor to find the pearl. Elsie is one such diver--a girl with a tragic past and a keen desire to become The Pearl Diver--she's fairly standard fare for YA dystopia: strong but a touch fragile, eager but reluctant, in love but troubled. She's likable, and gains a good bit of gravitas as the story unfolds. She grew on me in the back third of the book. Without getting into spoilers, suffice it to say that the more she learns about the larger universe she occupies, the more likable and interesting she becomes.THE PEARL DIVER is a bit incoherent in terms of world building. Certain aspects delighted me, such as the numerous colony worlds occupied by distinctive offshoots of humanity, the ecology of the water planet that Elsie calls home, and the format of the diving contest. Less well-handled are elements of culture, which feel more "western" than they should. THE PEARL DIVER doesn't delve into the deep waters in terms of showing how a post-human culture of island-dwelling humans with gills might differ from the suburban life of your average adolescent girl. I suspect that was an intentional choice: one hallmark of most YA fiction is to provide the reader (predominantly teenage girls and women) a surrogate protagonist they can "slip into" like a new pair of jeans. Twilight is the worst offender in that regard with a protagonist so vacant of character that she's no more than a shadow. Elsie is *far* from that level of generic, but I found that the book strayed away from making the island where Elsie lived as vibrant, distinct, and individual as most of the island cultures that exist here on Earth. The logic and coherence of the different colony worlds, their location to one another, and the technology to support travel between them was also left a bit of a mystery, but I suspect those aspects will be fleshed out in subsequent novels.THE PEARL DIVER gets far more right than it does wrong. The book accelerates where it should, has many touching moments, and grows Elsie into a character worth sticking with by the back third of the novel. The story has great pacing, and the prose is well-constructed and enjoyable. It provides beautiful images and conjures real connection to the experience of swimming and diving. THE PEARL DIVER is at its best when doing exactly what YA novels should: placing the reader inside the head of Elsie and allowing us to see what she sees, feel what she feels. That's the double-edged sword of YA: The opportunity for a memorable experience, or the threat of a lifeless and listlessness Bela from TWILIGHT. Thankfully THE PEARL DIVER gives us a heroine worthy of the investment, and a book worthy of the time to read it.Overall, THE PEARL DIVER is a vibrant, engaging story hampered by a few world building aspects that don't tarnish an otherwise enjoyable read.4.5 / 5 Stars
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. A Great and Imaginative YA Universe By W. Swardstrom After reading previous books by S. Elliot Brandis in his Tunnel series, I thought I was prepared for The Pearl Diver. I was wrong. Starting a great new Young Adult series, Brandis does the unexpected, taking the reader in new directions with each step along the way.In The Pearl Diver, we are quickly introduced to Elsie, a 17 (nearly 18) year old living on the planet Caelum, which is 96 percent water. Based on the descriptions, it seems wonderful, almost like a year-round tropical island in many respects, but Elsie longs for more, just like many young protagonists in stories like this. She wants, desperately, to be The Pearl Diver.Caelum is one of six (or seven??) planets in the system, but each year administrators from the planet Dunamis, the head planet, organize a contest for a black pearl. The winner, if there is one, is named the Pearl Diver, and is taken to Dunamis where they are honored. THe first half of the book is all about Elsie’s journey to the contest and her attempts to be the Pearl Diver, but it’s the back half of the book that really got me.In Brandis’ previous books I’d read, he was liberal with hurting his characters physically. He literally plunged the knife in and twisted at times. In The Pearl Diver, Brandis has learned to do the same with emotions. The physical challenges and harm is still a factor, but when Elsie learns what life is like after the contest, we find the knife sticking out of our backs as well.Well done, Mr. Brandis.I don’t want to give too much away, but there is a larger and much broader plot Brandis has mapped out beyond the contest to find the pearl. I would definitely recommend this to any fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent, or Susan Kaye Quinn’s latest The Legacy Human.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Engaging Sci-Fi read set in a very imaginative universe By Alejandra Gutiérrez I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest review.The Pearl Diver is the first installment of the Seven Worlds Saga and it is a great introduction to the universe S. Elliot Brandis has created as the setting for his story. Elsie, the main character is a diver in a planet of islands where the ocean is the center of the lives of its inhabitants. The plot of the story, without giving away too much, is simple: Elsie is almost eighteen years old and about to graduate from school. She lives in Caelum, one of the six planets in this universe, or seven planets depending on who you ask. Every year Dunamis, the head planet of the entire system, hosts a competition where they drop a black pearl into the ocean and all the graduating students can compete. The one that finds the pear becomes a sort of hero. Marked by a family tragedy, Elsie struggles to become the best: the pearl diver.One of the greatest achievements of this book is how vividly the author portraits the ocean, which is itself another character in the book. There are beautiful scenes describing the underwater world and the interaction that Elsie has with her element.The novel can be labeled as Young Adult fiction and it certainly has many of the characteristics of this genre: a strong young protagonist, a challenge that becomes a kind of rite of passage, a love story (the books explore the relationship between Elsie and Jeriah, her muscular and sweet friend), among others. But, the book is also about survival, not only individual but collective survival and the curse of living in ignorance.The action in the novel is well-paced and the world is solidly constructed. The Pearl Diver is an intriguing start to the series that should pull the reader into the following books. I will definitely read them.
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