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rjdenney's review against another edition
5.0
This was a freaking awesome read. :)
I didn't know much about this book going into it, but I knew I wanted to read it because it sounded good and it was dystopian. I had no idea that this book's story line packed so much. It was different for me because normally I don't pick up books about an all girls school. But this was different. The girls in this story are awaiting graduation so they can move into the city of sand and develop their own lives, but that is not what will happen to them. What they don't know is that they will be sent to a house where they will be a part of a breeding process for the new america. A plague has ripped the world new one and 15 years later the world has gone to shit and there is a king who is a big dick. Luckily, there are groups of people who help escapees and orphans so that they aren't pawns in this king's sick game.
We are introduced to Eve who is the class valedictorian and is hyped about graduating and starting a life in the city of sand. When she notices a girl named Arden acting very suspicious, she sets off to see what this girl is planning, since she tends to play pranks and jokes on the classes a lot. Eve discovers that Arden is escaping the school and tells Eve about what really happens to the girls who are graduating. Eve tries to brush it off, but when she witnesses Arden leaving the school, she decides to check things out on her own. Later in the day she escapes her dorm and walks into the lake separating the school from the house that supposedly houses girls who have graduated years before. When she walks up to the house she notices a window lit and peeks through. What she discovers is what Arden tried to explain to her and so with the help of a teacher, Eve escapes the school and sets off on a journey to Califia (a place that helps escapees and orphans.)
That is where I will leave it off and this shouldn't be a spoiler because it happens in the first 30 pages. YES! 30 pages. I loved that this book was FAST PACED but packed a lot. Sort of like another Author's work hmmmm I wonder who I am talking about? ;) The book is around 315 pages and it does not disappoint. The loved the characters and it sort of had a Peter Pan type feel in the middle of the book when... well, you'll find out. I don't mean Peter Pan as in something magical, you'll see.
This was a very good book and the ending left me wanting more, so I will be picking up the second book. I also will be buying a finished copy of EVE sometime soon, since what I read was an ARC.
Happy Reading!
& excuse the errors in this review. I don't usually edit my reviews. :p
-R.D.
I didn't know much about this book going into it, but I knew I wanted to read it because it sounded good and it was dystopian. I had no idea that this book's story line packed so much. It was different for me because normally I don't pick up books about an all girls school. But this was different. The girls in this story are awaiting graduation so they can move into the city of sand and develop their own lives, but that is not what will happen to them. What they don't know is that they will be sent to a house where they will be a part of a breeding process for the new america. A plague has ripped the world new one and 15 years later the world has gone to shit and there is a king who is a big dick. Luckily, there are groups of people who help escapees and orphans so that they aren't pawns in this king's sick game.
We are introduced to Eve who is the class valedictorian and is hyped about graduating and starting a life in the city of sand. When she notices a girl named Arden acting very suspicious, she sets off to see what this girl is planning, since she tends to play pranks and jokes on the classes a lot. Eve discovers that Arden is escaping the school and tells Eve about what really happens to the girls who are graduating. Eve tries to brush it off, but when she witnesses Arden leaving the school, she decides to check things out on her own. Later in the day she escapes her dorm and walks into the lake separating the school from the house that supposedly houses girls who have graduated years before. When she walks up to the house she notices a window lit and peeks through. What she discovers is what Arden tried to explain to her and so with the help of a teacher, Eve escapes the school and sets off on a journey to Califia (a place that helps escapees and orphans.)
That is where I will leave it off and this shouldn't be a spoiler because it happens in the first 30 pages. YES! 30 pages. I loved that this book was FAST PACED but packed a lot. Sort of like another Author's work hmmmm I wonder who I am talking about? ;) The book is around 315 pages and it does not disappoint. The loved the characters and it sort of had a Peter Pan type feel in the middle of the book when... well, you'll find out. I don't mean Peter Pan as in something magical, you'll see.
This was a very good book and the ending left me wanting more, so I will be picking up the second book. I also will be buying a finished copy of EVE sometime soon, since what I read was an ARC.
Happy Reading!
& excuse the errors in this review. I don't usually edit my reviews. :p
-R.D.
abaugher's review against another edition
5.0
How do you spell awesome? Anna Carey, that's how! love love love this book! Divergent, The Big Empty, other post-pandemic population wipeout stories; that's Eve. And there's a sequel hitting the stores on July 3. Can I wait patiently? NO!
devansbooklife's review against another edition
3.0
Simple to read. Likable characters, even if they are on the naive side. I won't be reading book two but I can say this book kept me entertained. And I was extremely disappointed that Eve caused the lives of others just trying to reach Caleb. It was sad and extremely selfish of her.
klaragon73's review against another edition
4.0
Have you ever walked around in a bookstore and then just the way the name is displayed on a certain book grabs your attention? Well that is what happened to me with Eve. I love the cover, it just looks so awesome and it just shows you that this story is going to be guy-in-death-metal-band hardcore. And it was. A dystopian novel focuses on the depressing side of things. So if you do not want to feel a wave of despair crawling over you when reading a book, I suggest you steer clear. I on the other hand, love dystopian novels and depression they create when reading. Don’t get me wrong, there are a few happy moments present but then it gets sucker punched by a scene that isn’t all unicorns and rainbows.
It starts off where we meet Eve, the main character, at one of the government schools of the New America. It is called this because a deadly plague wiped out most of the world population and they are trying to rebuild. These schools are only for girls though and they teach these girls that all men are bad. That men just want to use and abuse you, that they are liars and deceitful people and only want sex from women. These girls, all of them orphans, believe their teachers because it is all they know. They teach them that there is no such thing as love between a man and a woman, the women love but the men use their love to their advantage. Hectic right? This was honestly the weirdest part for me of the book. They even used Romeo and Juliette, not as the tragic love story that it is known for, but as a symbol of how men can manipulate women and isolate them from their families and that is why Juliette ended up killing herself. Not because the love of her life was dead, but because she was all alone and no one to turn to.
By then I was in such a WTF mode that I had to finish this book pronto because I needed Eve to figure out that this was not the truth, that it was lies that a pathological liar would be proud of.
Things take a turn on the night before graduation. She comes across Arden, a girl in her grade, who is trying to escape. She succeeds, but before she leaves she tells Eve that the school isn’t what she thinks it is. That the girls don’t graduate to go to the Graduates Buliding to become doctors, artists, lawyers, etc, but instead something more sinister and disgusting. Eve of course refuses to believe this, as any girl of eighteen would, but during the course of the night she becomes restless and decides to go investigate. What Arden said turned out to be true and she hatches a plan to escape, until a teacher catches her. Luckily for her the teacher helps her escape.
She meets up with Arden after a few days and that is when they meet Caleb. He saves Eve from a bear attack. She, of course after all her schooling, doesn’t trust him at all even though he saved her. According to this silly girl he must have an ulterior motive. She voices that she knows he saved her just to have sex with her. This is where I literally hit myself in the face with the book. I mean honestly, so what if he wants to have sex with you (he didn’t though), the dude has dreadlocks, the body of a god and the prettiest eyes ever. If he wants to do the hanky-panky, you nod your head and just go with the flow *cough cough*. In books is the only place where this can happen so I thought it is a valid observation.
Caleb takes them to where he lives but promises to help them get to Califia, a safe haven for outsiders, as soon as they are able to. Eve also finds out that the King of the New America is personally searching for her so they need to stay hidden at all times and during that time they develop a very new sort of love, since none of them have actually experienced it before so it was quite cute.
Eve’s character starts of as very naive and infuriating and most of the time I just wanted to shake her and knock some sense into her, but at the same time I understood why she was like this. Her education gave her very few other choices. Luckily during the story she starts to develop as her own person and gets her own beliefs. I loved this story because you can actually vividly see the change in the character and it was so refreshing. Then there’s Caleb who was completely drool worthy but he did act a little childish some of the times and when that occurred bad things tended to happen to Eve.
Anna Carey has a way of sucking you right into her story. Some of the times I actually felt like I was Eve. Not many authors can do that for me and I enjoy it immensely to get completely lost in a book. This is definitely recommended. The ending will leave you with a “huh????” feeling though. Stay tuned for my review on the sequel, Once coming soon.
~A Kelly M Review
It starts off where we meet Eve, the main character, at one of the government schools of the New America. It is called this because a deadly plague wiped out most of the world population and they are trying to rebuild. These schools are only for girls though and they teach these girls that all men are bad. That men just want to use and abuse you, that they are liars and deceitful people and only want sex from women. These girls, all of them orphans, believe their teachers because it is all they know. They teach them that there is no such thing as love between a man and a woman, the women love but the men use their love to their advantage. Hectic right? This was honestly the weirdest part for me of the book. They even used Romeo and Juliette, not as the tragic love story that it is known for, but as a symbol of how men can manipulate women and isolate them from their families and that is why Juliette ended up killing herself. Not because the love of her life was dead, but because she was all alone and no one to turn to.
By then I was in such a WTF mode that I had to finish this book pronto because I needed Eve to figure out that this was not the truth, that it was lies that a pathological liar would be proud of.
Things take a turn on the night before graduation. She comes across Arden, a girl in her grade, who is trying to escape. She succeeds, but before she leaves she tells Eve that the school isn’t what she thinks it is. That the girls don’t graduate to go to the Graduates Buliding to become doctors, artists, lawyers, etc, but instead something more sinister and disgusting. Eve of course refuses to believe this, as any girl of eighteen would, but during the course of the night she becomes restless and decides to go investigate. What Arden said turned out to be true and she hatches a plan to escape, until a teacher catches her. Luckily for her the teacher helps her escape.
She meets up with Arden after a few days and that is when they meet Caleb. He saves Eve from a bear attack. She, of course after all her schooling, doesn’t trust him at all even though he saved her. According to this silly girl he must have an ulterior motive. She voices that she knows he saved her just to have sex with her. This is where I literally hit myself in the face with the book. I mean honestly, so what if he wants to have sex with you (he didn’t though), the dude has dreadlocks, the body of a god and the prettiest eyes ever. If he wants to do the hanky-panky, you nod your head and just go with the flow *cough cough*. In books is the only place where this can happen so I thought it is a valid observation.
Caleb takes them to where he lives but promises to help them get to Califia, a safe haven for outsiders, as soon as they are able to. Eve also finds out that the King of the New America is personally searching for her so they need to stay hidden at all times and during that time they develop a very new sort of love, since none of them have actually experienced it before so it was quite cute.
Eve’s character starts of as very naive and infuriating and most of the time I just wanted to shake her and knock some sense into her, but at the same time I understood why she was like this. Her education gave her very few other choices. Luckily during the story she starts to develop as her own person and gets her own beliefs. I loved this story because you can actually vividly see the change in the character and it was so refreshing. Then there’s Caleb who was completely drool worthy but he did act a little childish some of the times and when that occurred bad things tended to happen to Eve.
Anna Carey has a way of sucking you right into her story. Some of the times I actually felt like I was Eve. Not many authors can do that for me and I enjoy it immensely to get completely lost in a book. This is definitely recommended. The ending will leave you with a “huh????” feeling though. Stay tuned for my review on the sequel, Once coming soon.
~A Kelly M Review
mybookloveobsession's review against another edition
4.0
Fun book, fast read. Interesting plot, different from others I have read. Drew me to wanting to read the next in the series. Fell in love with main characters and enjoyed the suspense.
ladytiara's review against another edition
2.0
After the success of The Hunger Games trilogy, young adult dystopian novels seem to be flooding the market. The latest entry in the dystopian race is Eve by Anna Carey. The book has its moments, but for me, it doesn't hold up well when compared with The Hunger Games and other recent standouts of the genre (like Wither and Divergent).
In the not too distant future, most of the United States' population has been wiped out by a pandemic. The surviving female orphans attend all-girl schools and receive what appears to be a comprehensive, albeit virulently anti-male, education to prepare them for future training and a job in the City of Sand, the new capital city. Eve is at the top of her class, and she's looking forward to the next stage of her schooling. But the night before her graduation, she learns the terrible truth (spoiler alert, but it's not much of a spoiler since you learn it in the first chapter): there is no future training. The girls are going to become brood mares, forced to bear as many children as possible so New America can be repopulated. Horrified by this knowledge, Eve runs away, hoping to reach a city called Califia, where she believes she'll be safe. And so she begins an arduous journey, along the path of which she finds danger and love.
The dystopian world in Eve is an interesting concept, and parts of the book worked well for me. The concept of a society nearly decimated by a pandemic is chillingly realistic, and the idea that one politician could create order out of the ensuing chaos and seize ultimate power (the new leader has declared himself king) isn't at all far-fetched. The book is very readable, and the plot moves quickly.
However, I have a number of issues with the book. I have a big question about the world-building: if the girls are just going to be used as baby machines, why are they rigorously educated for 12 years first? And why wait until the girls are 17 or 18? If they're just going to be incubators, why not start them on breeding ever earlier? Another issue I had was the romance with Caleb. Caleb's a likable enough character, but Eve's initial distrust turns to love very quickly, and I found it hard to believe that she could overcome 12 years of indoctrination against men in a matter of days. As a character, Eve didn't really work for me. She's the best in her class at school, but as her fellow student Arden points out, she's book smart and has no actual survival skills. I get that she's hopelessly naïve because she's lived most of her life behind the walls of her school, but even after being on the run for a while, she continues to make really stupid decisions despite knowing how high the stakes are. The hard nature of Eve's journey is occasionally glossed over. There are chunks of the journey where we're told that several days have passed. Somehow, Eve has survived, but the reader is given very little detail and this felt unrealistic, especially given how hopelessly unprepared she is for life outside her school.
Despite these issues, Eve was an entertaining read. But its shortcomings keep me from giving it a higher rating.
I received an ARC of this book from Amazon Vine.
In the not too distant future, most of the United States' population has been wiped out by a pandemic. The surviving female orphans attend all-girl schools and receive what appears to be a comprehensive, albeit virulently anti-male, education to prepare them for future training and a job in the City of Sand, the new capital city. Eve is at the top of her class, and she's looking forward to the next stage of her schooling. But the night before her graduation, she learns the terrible truth (spoiler alert, but it's not much of a spoiler since you learn it in the first chapter): there is no future training. The girls are going to become brood mares, forced to bear as many children as possible so New America can be repopulated. Horrified by this knowledge, Eve runs away, hoping to reach a city called Califia, where she believes she'll be safe. And so she begins an arduous journey, along the path of which she finds danger and love.
The dystopian world in Eve is an interesting concept, and parts of the book worked well for me. The concept of a society nearly decimated by a pandemic is chillingly realistic, and the idea that one politician could create order out of the ensuing chaos and seize ultimate power (the new leader has declared himself king) isn't at all far-fetched. The book is very readable, and the plot moves quickly.
However, I have a number of issues with the book. I have a big question about the world-building: if the girls are just going to be used as baby machines, why are they rigorously educated for 12 years first? And why wait until the girls are 17 or 18? If they're just going to be incubators, why not start them on breeding ever earlier? Another issue I had was the romance with Caleb. Caleb's a likable enough character, but Eve's initial distrust turns to love very quickly, and I found it hard to believe that she could overcome 12 years of indoctrination against men in a matter of days. As a character, Eve didn't really work for me. She's the best in her class at school, but as her fellow student Arden points out, she's book smart and has no actual survival skills. I get that she's hopelessly naïve because she's lived most of her life behind the walls of her school, but even after being on the run for a while, she continues to make really stupid decisions despite knowing how high the stakes are. The hard nature of Eve's journey is occasionally glossed over. There are chunks of the journey where we're told that several days have passed. Somehow, Eve has survived, but the reader is given very little detail and this felt unrealistic, especially given how hopelessly unprepared she is for life outside her school.
Despite these issues, Eve was an entertaining read. But its shortcomings keep me from giving it a higher rating.
I received an ARC of this book from Amazon Vine.
sly99's review against another edition
2.0
i actually did not finish it. i was too bored at the ater part. probably if i read this when i was starting out in diatopia i would have given it a 3 star. now, not so much.
redentrapy's review against another edition
2.0
Ok so I read this book because everyone told me it was great. I wasn't all that thrilled with it though. Actually I was bored through a good portion of it. The plot was weak and slow. The character were so two-dimensional that you always knew what the characters would do they stayed the same through the whole book and didn't change all that much. The plot in the beginning was great but once she runs away it gets so slow and nothing really happens. Not only that but the ending was a complete disappointment.
Plot: The world's population is dwindling. Men and women are kept in separate camps the men doing labor and the women going to school and getting an education. Eve finds out a horrible secret about what is really going on at school and so she runs away. Out in the wilderness Eve runs into Caleb and his bond of boys that help teach her to survive out in the wilderness. Eve knows the only place she is truly save is Califia a women camp but to get there she will have to leave Caleb who she loves.
Plot: The world's population is dwindling. Men and women are kept in separate camps the men doing labor and the women going to school and getting an education. Eve finds out a horrible secret about what is really going on at school and so she runs away. Out in the wilderness Eve runs into Caleb and his bond of boys that help teach her to survive out in the wilderness. Eve knows the only place she is truly save is Califia a women camp but to get there she will have to leave Caleb who she loves.
shirleymak's review against another edition
4.0
4 stars cause the girl got PRETTY DANG ANNOYING. but this was a good boook! Really want to read the next one now