While the author notes that the world is not meant to represent any single East Asian country, the influences of China and Japan are apparent, while providing historical accuracy in portraying the medieval landscape in East Asia.
She also illustrates the idea that strength goes beyond gender identity through other powerful characters such as Lady Dela, a transgender, and the many eunuchs and slaves throughout the book. Goodman’s writing of a girl who must do everything she must to compete and lead in a male-centric world gives readers a heroine so strong that Game of Thrones fans of Arya Stark would praise. Although she is eventually chosen by the return of the mysteriously missing thirteenth Dragon, her life remains in danger, as she must ensure her secret remains so for as long as she lives. In a society where only males are allowed to become the chosen ones, Eon has to hide her identity in order to even be considered. However, Eon holds a secret so deep and dangerous that it can lead to a gruesome death if divulged that Eon is a female, living under the guise of a male. This dragon, however, has been missing for over five hundred years until one Dragoneye candidate Eon came along.Īlison Goodman’s Eon: Dragoneye Reborn, also known as Two Pearls of Wisdom, is the first in a duology about Eon, a young crippled person trying to become the next chosen Dragoneye apprentice for the Rat Dragon.
The twelve Dragoneyes work in harmony with one another, but there is one other dragon, a thirteenth that can rule over them all. If these chosen humans are able to bond with one of the celestial creatures, they they are bestowed unfathomable power that can even control nature such as stopping earthquakes or creating monsoons to wipe out villages. Imagine a world where dragons based on the twelve celestial animals of the Chinese Zodiac lived through some chosen ones called the Dragoneyes.
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