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A Colony of Eves by Larry Kaplan

5/23/2019

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​​Genre: Science Fiction/ Mystery
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A few times every year I am lucky enough to find a book that absolutely captures me. I find myself either reading it or thinking about it all day, every day, until I finish the last page,  and then I regret that I finished it so quickly. In December of last year I was captivated by When the Past Came Calling by Larry Kaplan. I couldn’t wait to read another of his books and found A Colony of Eves several weeks ago. I was not disappointed. He is definitely an author to follow.

In A Colony of Eves a family of Russian immigrants (Oksana Kuznetsky, her son Mikhail and her parents) settle in America. Kaplan does an excellent job portraying the difficulties of settling in a new land. Luckily they have family and new found friends to help them, and things seem to be looking up until Oksana disappears.

The book jumps from Oksana’s family to the Amazon rain forest where a strange configuration of corpses is found indicating the possible extinction of humans in the not so distant future. The reader is then introduced to an unsavory organization with a leader intent on controlling the future of mankind and an albino army working to make his fantasy a reality. The story-lines connect when we find that Oksana Kuznetsky's rare bloodline may possess the antidote to mankind’s extinction.

Although there is definitely a good deal of science fiction woven into the story, it is more a characterization of young Mikhail and those who begin to help him in his search for his mother. Mikhail and friends are young (preteen) and it becomes a bit of a stretch of the imagination at times, but frankly I didn’t care. I believe author Kaplan’s talent in building a story will keep the reader involved until the very last page.

- Beverly

Publisher - Amazon Digital Services LLC
Date of Publication - ​January 13, 2011
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