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The Harvest: A YA dystopian novella (Eridu Series) Kindle Edition

by Alanah Andrews (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
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ONLY THE WORTHY PASS THE HARVEST
Ever since WWIII devastated the surface of the Earth, emotions have been strictly forbidden. Childhood friends, Eve and Hana, have grown up in an underground compound, their emotional control monitored at all times. But the harvest is approaching . . . In two days, the low-ranked students will be culled and the worthy assigned to their permanent positions in society. Eve is a high-ranked student, but harbours secret concerns about her brother leaving—feelings that she must conceal from her monitor if she wishes to succeed. Hana has always struggled to control her emotions, and she fears that this harvest will be her last. Both know there's no place for friendship when they're competing for their lives. The harvest is coming, and only the worthy will remain.
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    64 pages
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    January 25, 2019
  5. Reading age
    13 - 18 years
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07N4N6G7D
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Deadset Press (January 25, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 25, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 944 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 118 ratings

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Alanah Andrews

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Alanah Andrews grew up with a steaming mudpool in her back yard – so it’s no wonder that she writes speculative fiction! Alanah has won several awards for short stories, including the Avid Reader’s Flash Fiction Prize, Birdcatcher Books Short Story Award and Sweek Short Story Competition.

Her work has been published in anthologies such as Hammond House’s ‘Eternal,’ Lane Cove Literary Awards Anthology and Birdcatcher Books’ ‘Mosaic.’ Her writing has been recognised internationally, including being read aloud at LitFest Pasadena, California, as a finalist for the Roswell Award.

Alanah specialised in creative writing at Monash University where she studied a BA in Professional Communication. She also has a Master of Teaching and loves being able to foster a love of reading in her students. She currently teaches English in Australia.

Alanah has published a book of short stories ‘Beyond,’ and has a YA dystopian novel coming out in August.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Immediately Invested!!!
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2019
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I just finished reading this and it was soooo good!!! I was immediately drawn into the world of Eridu and fell in love with a character that I don't even know!!! Eve has so much hidden depth and Hana is so relatable. I want to know about Luc but... the whole set up of the world is AMAZINGLY dystopian but in a realistic way. Almost like the Delirium series but less medicated (Delirium was good too). The family structure is interesting too. Prime and Secondary parental figures, and dependants. The sex of the person is evident but not important. But, how are babies made? How do people fall in love? If everyone sleeps in different pods, is there sex? I have to binge this series. Now then, off to buy Eve of Eridu!!!
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Gypsy M
4.0 out of 5 stars Rather Accepting Dystopian Society
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2019
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One of the pitfalls of this novella is the idea that this is an emotionless society, which makes for a rather dry, emotionless read. It’s also a rather slow read, without much happening during it. I kept hoping someone would rebel, decide that it was unfair what they were doing to the society in that the low-ranked kids might do great things in the future which doesn’t fit into a series of tests. But no. They all went along with the system with no thought of changing things. And it doesn’t look like the idea of rebelling and changing things occurs in the next book either, which doesn’t sell me on the idea of continuing this series. It is an interesting society with all of its technology, the pods they sleep in, their tablets, keeping track of everything including their emotion wristbands. And, also, with the leaderboards, it segregates into classes, which you’d think would be something their anti-war society would want to quash. Hanna was my favorite viewpoint to follow as she struggled through the worry that this will be her final year, and tried to reach out to former friends, only to be turned away since no one wants to associate with someone at the bottom of the leaderboard. Readers can identify with her isolation and loneliness and despair, and struggle to retain hope since there might be a slim chance to survive. Eve, however, is emotionless and focused on her position in society, her future, and retaining her top leaderboard status, which frankly I don’t identify with, since it makes her unsympathetic to those at the bottom who might soon lose their lives. The other thing I had a problem with was, of course, The Grid. What I got from it was a rather religious idea that they think of it like one would think of Heaven, so it was a universally accepted idea in their society that it was a good place to end your life to go to, with absolutely no one questioning it. Me, I wanted to poke at it immediately, but no one did. There are holes with this society, like if the population is so reduced from the wars, why are they “culling” people at all, other than to keep everyone in line and add tension to the story?
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Just some girl
3.0 out of 5 stars Decent beginning
Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2020
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First, this is not a book. It's a free introduction designed to entice the reader to buy the series. The lack of emotion means it is hard to connect with The characters. That could be overcome, possibly, by transporting readers to another realm. The author creates a whole new world, Eridu, but does very little to describe it using mostly visual descriptors, so the setting is unfortunately also a bit of a flop. There are parts that are illogical. For example, If 95% of humanity was killed, why are any humans being culled? No explanation. Overall, fairly boring and disappointing read. Not good enough to buy the rest of the books.
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bruce
5.0 out of 5 stars Very enticing prequel
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2019
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Very well told story. I was very curious to see what would happen next. I was also very drawn into the story where I was trying not to breathe so deeply and not to be emotional for fear that my free characters in the story and might be harvested as a result.
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Wenderella
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Story
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2020
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Really enjoyed it. Refreshing new idea. Interesting characters. More for young readers but I liked it and I am 69. Can't wait to read the next in about the culling.
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Niterythm
4.0 out of 5 stars Ummmm?????
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2019
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Okay, I really enjoyed the style of writing and the intrigue the author gave us. I felt like I was apart of the lives of the Characters and I was living side by side to them all. Blocking your emotions and learning the virtues of living in peace, but is it living? Ummm, that is where Eve is now. With her brother culled, can she stay on top of the leaderboard or will she be the next one to be culled and not make it through the Harvest? This keep me going and understanding what Eve and the other characters go through. How do you keep yourself in the Blue???
But I really was lost at the ending of this book, I was left with the feeling (hahaha Don't go Amber) of confusion and disappointed all at the same time. Come on Book 2 I need more of Eve and her new adventures!
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Mystee
5.0 out of 5 stars Great start
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2019
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What an amazing start to an amazing series. The characters are so captivating in their different views of the world.
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Stella C.
3.0 out of 5 stars The Harvest
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2019
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The Harvest, first book in the Eridu series by Alanah Andrews is told from the point of view of Eve, the main character and what she experiences as she goes through the process of the harvesting and what it means for her and her brother Luc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in Canada on April 4, 2019
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Wow. Just wow. So I made a promise to myself this year not to purchase any books, but to read the books that are free. Well I have broken my promise to myself. I have purchased the next book in line. The storyline is just absolutely amazing as well as the characters. The book just draws you in and the author has done an amazing job of capturing us.
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Manda
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 24, 2019
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In read this book In less than a day what an amazing epilogue to the series so much so that I went and bought book 1 straight away I need to know what is going on and I have a feeling that something is wrong more then anyone can imagine . It reminds me a little of matrix but I loved that film so I will no doubt like this series it's a definite 5 stars from me
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5.0 out of 5 stars Never again can humans be allowed off their own leash.
Reviewed in Australia on April 4, 2019
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Post the apocalypse.
Post emotion.
Self control. Humanity control.

Never again can humans be allowed off their own leash.

Humans will control their own humanity.

We will harvest the best. We will cull to control the rest.
And we will never show what we feel.
The Harvest by Alanah Andrews sets these as the basic parameters for the society of Eridu. The protagonists in this introductory book are Eve – a young woman of high rank, a year away from being harvested to join the elite, and Hana, a struggler whose natural place is lower down the order and who is almost certainly about to be culled and made to become a disembodied, digitised part of the Grid, whose purpose and function is unknown, but which contains all those who have been previously harvested by or for Eridu.

What happens, when a normally calm, controlled high ranker emotionally red-lines in front of the gathered community?
How/why does the culling not proceed in quite the manner intended?
And what has happened to Luc, who was destined for such great things in society? Is he somehow, somewhere exerting a subtle influence over proceedings?
This is dystopia, in the guise of ‘what is done, is done for the greater good’, harking in a straight line back to George Orwell and Animal Farm, or 1984.

I enjoyed this introduction to Eridu, and can recommend it highly for YA readers interested in dystopian worlds. (5 stars)
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J. Agombar
3.0 out of 5 stars Worth a read!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 29, 2019
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The Harvest is a prequel to the Eridu series which I haven’t read. But after reading Alanah’s anthology, ‘Beyond’ I was inclined to pursue this book. It’s novella size and maintains her very clear style of writing. It tells the story in 1st person perspective from the characters Eve and Hana, who are part of the same facility in a future where emotions have been banned. It explains a lot in this story, enough to get to grips with for the following instalments and swaps perspectives of the characters with each chapter. Although done well, this jarrs for me a little in the fact you feel you are reading the same events twice in places. The whole idea is sound and proves Alanah’s excellent narratives involving emotional conflict and imbalance, but the idea of people having to control their emotions I feel might restrict any author as it makes it hard to define strong character traits if they have to suppress them. The internal thoughts of the characters are what drives the story in this case and they are portrayed very well throughout. The lack of action doesn’t necessarily take away from this book as it serves as a solid introduction to a longer standing series. It’s the sort of story that I can see turned into a film one day. Worth a read!
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Veronica Strachan
5.0 out of 5 stars Clear, sharp and engaging
Reviewed in Australia on March 25, 2019
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This story draws you in immediately. The writing style is sharp and seamless, the characters pop into being fully formed. Great world building and hints of future twists and relationships in this excellent dystopian series prequel.
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