Don't worry, black people of the world! When the planet is flooded by lethal UV radiation that kills almost all animal and plant life, your SPF 1,000,000 melanin will keep you safe! Until everyone needs to become cat people to survive! Victoria Foyt says so! 
 No, I'm not kidding. 
 I wish I were, because "Revealing Eden (Save the Pearls Part One)" is the worst science-fiction novel I have read in years. Not only is it casually and consistently racist (with blackface being the MILDEST aspect), but author Victoria Foyt constantly pelts the reader with hilariously ghastly science, bestiality romance and the worst "heroine" you can imagine. 
 That "heroine" is Eden Newman, a "Pearl" (white person) in a society dominated by "Coals" (black people). Contemplate those names. Her mad-scientist father has been developing a method for allowing Pearls to live outside... which is to make them cat people. Again, not kidding. But after Eden stupidly gives information on this to an evil anti-Pearl group, her dad ends up turning his boss Bramwell into a jaguar/human hybrid. 
 The three of them immediately escape the facility and flee into the deadly world outside, where they take shelter in a village of random Mesoamericans who, of course, speak SPANISH. And since Bramwell is no longer a black man but a black BEAST-MAN, Eden now finds him incredibly attractive. I wish I didn't have to keep saying that I'm not kidding, but I do. 
 To be fair, I don't think that Victoria Foyt INTENDED to make "Revealing Eden" as skin-crawlingly vile as it turned out. It comes across as being the sort of book written by a sheltered, clueless woman who has probably never even had a conversation with a black person, yet still thinks she "understands" racism. But whatever her intentions, the book is contemptibly racist. 
 How is it racist? Black people -- or "them," as Eden says -- are all depicted as cruel and/or treacherous; the only exception is a man who spends 90% of the story as an actual, literal beast-man. White people are depicted as fragile refined flowers who read poetry and are downtrodden by the mean ol' black people. And Mesoamericans are depicted as stone-faced Aztecs (WHAT?) or convenient Noble Savages who have no purpose other than to take care of the fragile white people. 
 Also... blackface. Not in an ironic "Tropic Thunder" way either. Also, "Coals" and "Pearls" -- just think about the implications. 
 But the racism isn't the only problem -- Foyt is a writer bad enough to make your skin crawl. Her prose has the clumsiness of a thirteen-year-old writing her first fan fiction ("Eden quivered as she pictured Bramford, lusty for the kill, ripping into the howler"), and she comes up with some spellbindingly awful "sexy" scenes (such as Eden humping Bramford's neck to make him run faster.... WHAT?!). 
 And did I mention that there's bestiality in this story? Once Bramford gets pantherized, Eden spends the rest of the book quivering with lust at how hot his animalistic qualities get her. 
 As if the racism, sexism, bestiality and ghastly writing weren't bad enough, Eden is possibly the worst heroine I've ever read about -- she makes Bella Swan look like a decent human being. Not only is she blindingly stupid and incompetent, but she spends most of the book bumbling around, whining and insulting Bramford because... well, she hates black people. She's pretty open about being every bit as racist as the villains. 
 And she will not shut up about showing the "Real Eden" to men. Guess what, Eden! We've all seen the "Real Eden," and she's not somebody anybody who isn't a masochistic white supremacist furry would want to know! 
 Victoria Foyt needs to take a hint and quietly end the "Save the Pearls" series right away. "Revealing Eden" is not only racist, it's also one of the worst sci-fi novels I have ever read.