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Jan 24, 2012

Jo rated it:

”He was a strange breed of man, part wild. Not the sophisticated kind who graced the pages of The Great Gatsby. Nor did he seem like the violent man I’d encountered on my first day in the wild. He had saved me, at least. I could only hope that it wasn’t for some nefarious purpose.”

High Points.
The idea…. I know people will be like ‘B-b-but it’s exactly the same as The Handmaid’s Tale’… but I’ve never read it sooo… I think Ms Carey did a great job at setting up this idea and it w More...

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Jan 27, 2012

Kira rated it:

Yee gods, what a boring book. I literally felt my life fading away as I read it. It's not as if the prose is bad (because it isn't!) and it's not like the cover is ugly (because it isn't!) and it's not as if it's another Twilight (because it isn't!)...

But there's only so far you can go when you hate every single one of the characters.

I'll try again some day, kittens.

A Little Notie: Before, I said it's not like the plot More...

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Dec 03, 2011

Reynje rated it:

Instant Dystopia: Now With 50% Less Logic!

Start with your randomly selected future date at room temperature. Add an ambiguous Plague (capitalised is best). Stir briefly to create a drastic population reduction, thereby ensuring wombs are a hot commodity in your new society. Heavily indoctrinate your characters to keep them in line and create exploitative scenarios, especially for teenagers. Insert an Improbable and Unexplained System of Government.

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Aug 23, 2011

Amy marked it as to-read

The comparison to Twilight is overwhelmingly off-putting, but I'm holding out hope here because a dystopia and a King? I don't see that combination too often. And the sales pitch mentioned a cross between Romeo and Juliet and The Hunger Games, a cross which I am entirely excited to read :)

Ah, a summary! Hmm...as to this part: "but Caleb slowly wins her trust...and her heart", the key word here, folks, is slowly. Do you hear me, Anna Carey? I'm all for a good romance so long More...

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Feb 21, 2012

Stephanie rated it:

One of the first questions I ask myself when I'm reading a dystopian novel is, "Could I ever live in this world?" I can easily answer no for Eve. I can see this book having two distinctive effects on people: horrifying them and completely turning them off or intriguing them just enough to keep them reading. I'm happy to say I fell in the latter category.

Eve lives in a world that has been devastated by a deadly Plague leaving countless children orphans. As a result, the c More...

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Aug 24, 2011

Mara rated it:

Eve essentially dooms itself from the very get go after quoting Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, immediately drawing up unfair comparisons to what is definitively a better book inhabiting the same genre Eve happens to occupy.

So about fifteen years ago a plague wipes out most of humanity but, as so often happens with these things, proves inefficient in taking out the crazies. America is a body-littered hull of its former self. Now a monarchy called New America and headquartered i More...

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Aug 04, 2011

Isamlq rated it:

2.5/5

There's potential here, but what comes to mind right now is Handmaid's Tale, even Wither. Except Eve is a pale version of those. Where all three possess elements of a society being rebuilt on the backs of unwanted, Eve lacks the deeper emotions and awareness that Handmaid's has; it also lacks the seamless, lush writing that Wither possesses. That said, Eve isn't a bad story despite some of the clumsy dialogue and sudden/abrupt shifts because right now it feels like to ended too More...

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Dec 30, 2011

H.D. rated it:

I got this book courtesy of the NetGalley Program, and have been itching to read Eve by Anna Carey ever since I read the plot. Romeo and Juliet meets The Hunger Games, I had high hopes for this book.

Nowadays, there are a ton of dystopian books for young adults trying their best to top the trilogy that is The Hunger Games. A lot of the books I have read are really great, and don’t try desperately to become the next big thing.

Sadly, Eve is not one of those books. It makes More...

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Jan 05, 2012

Naru rated it:

I have been waiting to read this book in what feels like forever, so you can imagine how excited I was when it finally arrived in the mail today!

Eve is set in a post-apocalyptic world that turned dystopian during the rebuild. After a plague wipes out the majority of the population, orphans are being sent to schools (girls) and labour camps (boys). It is at the school for girls, a school which supposedly "educates" them for their future, that Eve's story begins.

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Aug 24, 2011

Mlle. rated it:

Man. Oh Man. I was so ANGRY at this book by the time I finished it. Just...ugh. It starts off slow and then builds into a massive trainwreck. The heroine, Eve, makes one bad decision after another after another, gets everyone around her into horrible trouble, says she's sorry, and then does it again. She's supposed to be a real smart girl but you wouldn't know it from the way she acts in EVE.

So we've got a dystopian novel in which earth's population has been wiped out by a ho More...

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Oct 25, 2011

Jennifer rated it:

3.5
*low whistle* WOW. There is quite a bit of ragging on this book here.
I did a naughty thing. I picked this book to read, then looked at the reviews here. And did I ever TAINT my own mind!
So I immediately started off wanting to hate it and call it misogynistic. But guess what? I actually DIDN'T hate it!

Okay, so it's not the Mona Lisa of YA, but really, I don't think it deserves the one and two star ratings.

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Sep 13, 2011

Jennifer rated it:

At Eve’s all-girls school, the students are richly educated in literature, music, and more so that once they graduate they will enter training for their new positions in the City of the Sand. Eve is the Valedictorian of her class, and has never questioned her upbringing. But the night before their graduation, Eve ponders the warning of her most hated classmate, Arden, who informs her that everything is not as it seems. Eve steals away into the night, haunted by Arden’s words. When she crosses th More...

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Oct 13, 2011

Joy (joyous reads) rated it:

This is the world according to Eve:

• Men are evil.
• The world is full of them.

Okay, okay. Simmer down. You can’t really blame Eve. She grew up in a world where women are priced commodities and are apparently only good for one thing – as a part of a baby-making assembly line. I’m not kidding. This book has some serious demented concepts, far beyond the reaches of my usually open, accommodating mind.

Eve is probably one of those characters that, had she b More...

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Oct 25, 2011

Sasha rated it:

Eve has lived most of her life within the confines of a boarding school-esque type place where she has happily gone along with whatever they told her to do (including taking medicine and getting shots). She is the top of the class - the prettiest girl - you get the picture. But then one day she sees what happens to the girls after they graduate and it is so horrible that she decides to run away...into the unknown. There, she encounters another runaway, people who hide runaways, and a clan of boy More...

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Dec 04, 2011

Eunice rated it:

3.5 of 5 stars

After a plague that eat up most of the population of America girl orphans were brought to an exclusive school were they got educated and taken care of supposedly to make them ready for the trade in the City of Sand after they graduate. On the night before her graduation Eve discovered something about the school; what her school's purpose really is, what the students are for, and what will they be once they graduated. She then escaped her school and wander through the wild More...

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Oct 21, 2011

Dhezza rated it:

After the plague, orphans are being sent to schools for girls and labor camps for boys. The school supposedly educates the girls to learn their trade at the City of Sand. The night before Eve's graduation, because of Arden Eve learned the truth about their school. The fate that awaits her. She escaped from school. She wanders with no definite clue on where she starts looking for Califia (safe refugee for escapees) and learned to live in the wilds. She ran into Arden, a girl she knew from school More...

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Sep 27, 2011

Andi rated it:

I found Eve to fit in delightfully with the dystopian trend that is occurring, and was quickly engrossed in Eve's tale. While I loved Eve's tale of escaping from the fate of the other graduates, I was occasionally off-put by how quickly Eve shook off years of training to hate and fear boys & men. Despite a summary and my expectations that Caleb would 'slowly gain her confidence' I found the opposite to be true, where despite a few skittish moments, Eve nearly immediately trusted him. I found Eve More...

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Feb 11, 2012

Christy (TheReaderBee) added it

Eve is a young adult dystopian novel. I have only read a few dystopian novels at this point, so I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I did find the book to be quite an interesting read.

The main character in the story is Eve. Eve is a very sheltered, naïve child. Her whole life she has been carefully hidden away from the world behind the School walls. Because of her naivety, she made some really questionable decisions throughout the book that lead to quite a bit of trouble. I found E More...

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Feb 21, 2012

Sandeelovesbooks rated it:

Dystopian has always been one of my least favorite genre in YA books.
I have read good ones like Hunger Games and Divergent.
I loved those but like Wither the first dystopian book I’ve read, Eve did not live up to my expectation.

Reading Eve had been a struggle. It started out good but gradually I became more and more unenthusiastic about it.
If this was how we are going to be 2032 then I wouldn’t want to be alive during that time.
No exaggeration!

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Sep 29, 2011

Rachel rated it:

3.5 stars

The premise of Eve is utterly creepy. When you find out exactly what the students are in for after their graduation, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Anna Carey sets up how Eve learns all of this quite well, and I thought the world-building was pretty darn good. I felt like most of my questions were answered, and since it's a planned series, the few I had left were quite alright.

I feel like Eve is a bit more post-apocalyptic than dystopian. This may change More...

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Sep 14, 2011

Krystal rated it:

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This book begins with a sad letter from a desperate mother to her daughter, Eve. The letter is informative for the reader, telling of a terrible plague that will soon claim the mother's life and the mother's unshakable hope for her daughter's future. Flash forward to present day, much older, Eve; Eve is one of the brightest, prettiest, and inquisitive girls in her "School." The School contains girls who are supposedly ther More...

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Sep 23, 2011

Laura (All of Everything) rated it:

Eve has been on of my most anticipated novels for fall. As you may know I'm a huge fan of dystopian novels, could read them all the time, so I was super excited when I got the chance to read this. Unfortunately, Eve left me a little disappointed.

Eve lives in an almost barren world, most of the population decimated by a virus. She, along with other orphan girls, are lucky though; they live in a great school, learn about art and music and are told of the wonderful lives they'll pursue More...

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Dec 16, 2011

Loretta rated it:

Lets talk cover 1st. Thoughts? I love it. The colors. How she is running. Amazing. A+.
Eve was a good read. Hands down. Wow. I was really into this book, and before I knew it I was finished.
A virus broke out in 2016. The vaccine that they were giving people just really made matters worse, so their was a lot of death. The population was dwindling.
Eve lives in this school for girls. Kind of to me like a compound. You can't just get out. Or in. There are gates, and guards.
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Sep 15, 2011

Infinite Playlist rated it:

Lang und breit
Eve beginnt vielversprechend. Ein Mädcheninternat, auf dem den Mädchen und jungen Frauen beigebracht wird wie gefährlich die Männerwelt doch ist, und kurz darauf eine schockierende Entdeckung, die Eve dazu zwingt vor ihrer so gesichert wirkenden Zukunft zu fliehen. Ab da ist leider Schluss mit Schock und Spannung.

Eve ist eine ziemlich naive, aber nicht unsympathische Heldin. Sie macht immer wieder Fehler, was sie menschlicher erscheinen lässt. Leider scheint sie e More...

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Sep 01, 2011

Nafiza rated it:

You see, the trouble with the recent spate of dystopian novels (in the YA genre) is that after the initial two or three, they all start to blur into one another. Here's some advice for other budding writers out there from a voracious reader: If you are going to attempt to tell a story that is very similar to one that has already been told (and told spectacularly) either try to do something entirely different with the subject or better yet, write something entirely different. This is the problem More...

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Nov 05, 2011

Nicole rated it:

You can check out this review and many others on my blog, The Reader's Antidote

I was surprised by the low ratings for this one. The synopsis sounds very promising and aren't dystopians the thing now? It's funny because everyone seems to be tired of dystopians, but I feel like I'm just getting started. I think the main thing is that I love world-building, where you can make up your own rules and names of places and people, and Anna Carey does a great job with that. I was sucked in rig More...

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Jan 18, 2012

Melina added it

My Review:
Cover:
I am in love with this cover, I love the color scheme and scenery. I feel like I have to be looking for something through that fog.
The Insides:
Eve was a page turner for sure. However I went into it with high expectations and I was somewhat disappointed in its lack of originality. Don't get me wrong I read this book in record time and truly enjoyed it. The flaws in the book were mostly limited to a cookie-cutter style dystopia and lack of character developm More...

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Dec 01, 2011

Lyndsey rated it:

Starting off in a girl's boarding school, I was a bit worried about where the plot was going to go. I definitely did not want to read another whole book set in a school! Once the whole reasoning of the school became apparent, I loved this aspect of Eve. If the world did ever turn out this way, as it does in this book, I could totally see this kind of thing happening and this made Eve quite scary. Anything that could actually happen freaks the hell out of me and that was exactly the case here.
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Feb 19, 2012

Bitten By Books rated it:

My Review:
"Eve" induces a girl name Eve, who is one of many young girls that survive the plague. At the age of five Eve was brought to a school with other survivors to be protected and safe... In the year 2015, a terrible plague wiped out half of the United States and only a few survive. That was 12 years ago.. Now seventeen, Eve and her friend Pip are excited for their new lives after they graduation from their all girls school. But the night before Eve's graduation, she discov More...

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Feb 18, 2012

Yassie rated it:

This book is about a girl named Eve and she goes to this all girl boarding school and she's an orphan and every one who goes there is to. And the girls who is in there have never been outside the school since they started going there the rules are strict and when they gradute they can leave the school and start there one life, but as it's turns out it's a lie. This girl named Aredn is gonna escape from school and Eve found out and Aredn alredy knew everything at the school was a lie but Eve dosn More...

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