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Eve of Man

(Eve of Man #1)

Tom Fletcher,

Giovanna Fletcher (Goodreads Author),

Anne Delcourt (Translator)

4.12 · Rating details · 10,203 ratings · 1,267 reviews

Imaginez qu'aucune femme ne soit née sur Terre depuis cinquante ans. Imaginez qu'enfin, une fille, une unique fille, naisse. L'avenir de l'humanité repose sur elle. Comment va-t-elle réussir à se rendre maîtresse de son destin ? ...more

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Jun 19, 2018 Sara rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, young-adult, arc

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Eve is the first female to be born in 50 years. In an ageing world destroyed by man, she’s raised away from the conflict in the ‘dome’ - a paradise of school lessons, dancing and talking to her AI ‘friend’ Holly. But there’s more to Holly than meets the eyes. As Eve approaches her 16th birthday, can she accept her inevitable fate as the saviour of her race, or will a forbidden love force secrets out into the open?

I tried to like th I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Eve is the first female to be born in 50 years. In an ageing world destroyed by man, she’s raised away from the conflict in the ‘dome’ - a paradise of school lessons, dancing and talking to her AI ‘friend’ Holly. But there’s more to Holly than meets the eyes. As Eve approaches her 16th birthday, can she accept her inevitable fate as the saviour of her race, or will a forbidden love force secrets out into the open?

I tried to like this, I really did. On paper it should be right up my street. Dystopian YA, female lead, ideas of gender suppression - but I just found it incredibly simplistic and uninspiring. It all just feels a little bit ‘been there, done that’ with a rather unsophisticated take on The Handmaid’s Tale, and this idea that women have been oppressed and controlled, which seems to be a recurrent theme in dystopian fiction at the moment. The writing style is very overly descriptive in terms of feelings, which I don’t think really works here, as nothing is left for the reader to interpret and develop their own opinions. It’s all telling, with no subtleties, which I think would have helped elevate the text.

The world building is also rather limited. Other than an overview at the beginning, which gives an outline into the current state of the planet and humanities apparent lack of respect for the environment due to no future generations to pass it to, there’s little explanation as to why the world is how it is. Why are no female being born? What exactly happened? Would a world full of mainly men really result in global catastrophes? I find this slightly condescending to believe. Perhaps this will be expanded on in future literature, but I really think more time should have been spent trying to flesh out the world that I was suppose to care about. The glimpses we see of life outside the dome were some of my favourite segments, and I found the hints of environmental destruction and how the ‘Freevers’ live far more interesting than any character in the dome.

Eve and Bram, as the two narrators, have very distinct voices and it was easy to differentiate when each of them is in control of the narrative which helped with the flow of the story. However, they do unfortunately suffer from what comes across as instalove, and I found quite a lot of their scenes together quite cringy - especially the gushy declarations of love. We’re given a background to suggest that Eve and Bram have ‘grown up’ together and know each other well, but they’ve never so much as touched. It’s a very ‘clean’ romance, which is rather childish and simple but to me it also feels more like infatuation, and the love of the unknown rather than romantic love - which makes the second half of the book and the motives behind it even harder to understand.

A major issue that I found in the book is this very clear divide in the story into two distinctive parts. The first half is very Eve focused, and centres around her life in the dome and her relationships with Bram and the ‘Mothers’ - the ageing women who care for her. The second half is very much more of a revolutionary fast paced action story. I found it quite jarring, although I did enjoy the second half more. However, again I found Bram’s story a little too ‘easy’ for him. Everything falls into place with very little struggle and strife, and his character goes from beaten down son of high powered genius to revolutionary leader without any real believable development of character. In comparison, Eve comes across increasingly more like a damsel in distress as the story progresses, with little ability to really fight for herself without the help of others.

This could have been a good story about gender dynamics and the distribution of power in a world devoid of females and the continuing struggle to preserve the female race. Unfortunately, I just couldn’t enjoy it was much as I wanted, but I genuinely hope this finds an audience with younger readers as an introduction into dystopian fiction with an innocent romance. ...more

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Aug 10, 2018 TeaAndBooks rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

THAT ENDING THOUGH
I NEED MORE

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May 06, 2018 Deborah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

3.5 to 4*

The blurb intrigued me and my first thought was the incredible Children of Men. The difference is in Children of Men no children had been born for eighteen years. Whereas in Eve of Man it’s been 50 years since the last baby girl was born.

Without females the human race was facing extinction and by the time Eve was born the earth was a mess. Men living without hope of a future have abused the world beyond imagination. Overconsumption of fossil fuels accelerated global warming.

Then came t ...more

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May 23, 2018 Karoliina rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, netgalley

I received an ARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

There are number of things in Eve of Man that left me feeling deeply uncomfortable, and that really took away any enjoyment I might have gotten from the story otherwise. Before I get into why I disliked this book, first I want to acknowledge that there are fun sci-fi concepts in here that I found imaginative and novel, and I especially liked how the futuristic technology is actually central to the plot. There is also a believab I received an ARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

There are number of things in Eve of Man that left me feeling deeply uncomfortable, and that really took away any enjoyment I might have gotten from the story otherwise. Before I get into why I disliked this book, first I want to acknowledge that there are fun sci-fi concepts in here that I found imaginative and novel, and I especially liked how the futuristic technology is actually central to the plot. There is also a believable romance between the two main characters. This really matters because their relationship is the catalyst for change in this story, and therefore it has the power to make or break the book. It made me happy that their romance was rooted in friendship and wasn't yet another case of insta-love.

I wasn't a huge fan of the writing style at first because all the sentence fragments irked the pedant in me. The exposition is also pretty clumsy, and there are quite a few abrupt info dumps. However, the flow of the narrative improves once the story really gets going, and in the end I didn't really mind it.

What I did really mind, however, was the very black and white way the book depicts gender and sexuality. On several occasions it suggests that men and women are somehow fundamentally different in their behaviour, and this is presented as something natural and innate. I found this biological determinism frustratingly outdated and stifling. The concept of the story would really allow for a deeper exploration of gender as a social construct and gender inequality, but it never really goes there. Instead of taking the opportunity to challenge gender stereotypes, for the most part the story ends up enforcing them.

Since even the cis, straight characters aren't explored in any real depth, it shouldn't be surprising that the book doesn't acknowledge that queer people exist, but I was still disappointed by it. You'd think this dystopian world that is obsessed with reproduction and biological sex would be especially bleak for LGBTQ+ people, and it is a glaring oversight that this doesn't even get an offhand mention somewhere.

Our main character Eve is a fairly typical YA protagonist in that she is breathtakingly beautiful. There's nothing wrong with that, but the disturbing side effect of the world building is that every man on the planet is uncontrollably lusting after her, and this hints at a constant underlying threat of sexual violence. Honestly, the majority of the male characters just about go insane with lust when they even see a glimpse of a woman, be it real or a hologram. The men in Eve's universe are driven by their hormones, and only their good, virtuous nature stops them from taking advantage of her. This suggests that if any were actually to assault Eve, it wouldn't really be their fault because they are simply acting out their biological urges. That is such a creepy message to let go under the radar in a YA book that I was really taken aback by it. Even though Eve's romantic interest, Bram, is all around sweet and respectful towards her, he treats the other men's lecherous behaviour either as a joke or as a minor annoyance and never speaks out to challenge their views.

Another thing that irritated me about Bram was how obsessed he is with physical strength and how he looks down on anyone less fit than him. He constantly jokes at the expense of an overweight man he meets later in the story and also makes some condescending remarks about his best friend. I would be fine with this if it was treated as a character flaw, but the way it is written invites the reader to laugh at these characters with him. I didn't join in because I don't find "haha, he's so fat!!!" to be particularly witty or funny.

The last point I want to make is a minor grievance compared to the other ones, but I was also baffled by Eve's and Bram's strange anti-science attitude. The mystical, romantic powers that they attribute to "Mother Nature" seem pretty anachronistic given that the highly technological environment they grew up in is all they have ever known. To be fair this isn't really discussed in any detail, but the false dichotomy still annoyed me. (Science isn't the opposite of nature; it is the study of nature! Argh.)

This is only the 1st book in a trilogy and the issues I've raised might be addressed in the later books. However, unfortunately Eve of Man has not made me want to read the rest of the series. ...more

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Jul 09, 2018 Bex (Beckie Bookworm) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: arc, book-reviews, dystopian, young-adult, post-apocalyptic, netgalley

ARC BOOK REVIEW
Release Date-31/5/18

This really appealed to me the idea of a dystopian landscape where female births have decimated to the point where the last XX Birth in fifty years is the honour of one young girl aptly name Eve.
Unsurprisingly she is one hot commodity; kept segregated from the common masses in the tower with the Mothers; Aged woman who have made it there lives vocation to raise her.
Eve is raised with the ideals that she alone is the last hope for humanity; a heavy responsibilit ...more

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May 06, 2018 Deborah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Jun 03, 2018 Jessikah Hope rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, 2018

I wanted to like this book because I think Tom and Gi are fantastic people and I expected to like it because Gi is a talented adult writer. However, I could not click with this book.

The first half was okay. From the first page, I was nervous it wasn’t quite my taste. The writing is very simplistic and abrupt but in a way that doesn’t engage me. The story is very much told to you so there’s not a lot of clues you need to pay attention to and sadly, that left me bored. At this point, though, it wa ...more

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Apr 27, 2018 mary rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

"I guess reality is just the world with which we are presented."

I. AM. OBSESSED! A million stars! Eve of Man is going to be one of my highlights of 2018!

I started it yesterday and I only put it down because I was half asleep. The synopsis already sounded very engaging to me, I love books about future worlds and this one I liked very much.
I received an ARC via netgalley for an honest review and I'm so happy and thankful that I got the chance to read it. It'll be published on May 31, 2018.

From th "I guess reality is just the world with which we are presented."

I. AM. OBSESSED! A million stars! Eve of Man is going to be one of my highlights of 2018!

I started it yesterday and I only put it down because I was half asleep. The synopsis already sounded very engaging to me, I love books about future worlds and this one I liked very much.
I received an ARC via netgalley for an honest review and I'm so happy and thankful that I got the chance to read it. It'll be published on May 31, 2018.

From the synopsis we know that Eve, the first girl born in fifty years, has been kept away from the opposite sex all her life. When three potential man have been selected for her, nothing goes as it should. And then she meets Bram. (If you want to get blind into the book, stop reading her) Well not exactly Bram, actually she meets Holly. You'll probably be confused now, what nonsens is this girl talking about? Let me explain. The best way to create a connection to Eve and know her thoughts, would be If she had a friend. But how can you get a friend for a girl who's the last rescue for the human world? A girl who lives in a Dom at the highest point of a tower, so she'll be kept safe? Riiiiiiiight, you create one! So Holly is being controlled by three different "pilotes" who navigate her, they talk to Eve and make her feel comfortable. One of them is Bram, he has been taken from his mother by his super intelligent scientist father and lived in the tower since then. Bram get's to know Eve as a child, when he himself was one and after a certain time she starts to favour him instead of the other two pilots, she recognises his eyes behind Hollys fassade.

I love love loved the idea behind this novel, but have to admit the reactions of man towards Eve were pretty horrific. Some of them never have seen a woman (they were not allowed to visit public places and were kept save) and are terrified when they see Eve for the first time. There is a solider who's tempted by Eve, so I'll warn you that there's the idea of rape forming in his mind, but he doesn't do it. If you want to avoid any mention of it, you now have been warned. We don't get to see much of the world outside of the dome, but that didn't bother me. There will be further books in this series and I'm curious how things will play out!

What I liked about this book: I enjoy the dystopian genre very much, also post apocalyptic worlds etc. and especially ones with good ideas. The book was special in its scheme as well as in its writing style, we got to read from two POV's: Bram and Eve. I admired that very much, because I got drawn into the story and could sympathize with both of them, especially with Eve. She was separated from the rest of the world and never had the chance to meet new people and make friends, I was so sad when she was screaming alone in her room after what has been done to her.

I loved every part of this book and look forward to read the second one! ...more

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Aug 14, 2020 Claude's Bookzone rated it liked it · review of another edition

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This is one of those books where I hope the authors are setting the scene for a really good book two. The premise was good but in reality it didn't quite deliver (sorry for the pun). I'm not quite sure why though. I think perhaps the romance element could have been removed and the focus changed t ...more

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May 19, 2018 Lucy Banks rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Bold, imaginative and cinematic - but a few question-marks over the credibility of the plot.

Yes, it's a dystopian book. And let's face it, there are rather a few of them around at the moment. However, this definitely stood out from the crowd, thanks to its inventive approach and strong, confident writing.

Eve is the last young female on earth. As this statement implies, the human race has pretty much wrecked itself, a I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Bold, imaginative and cinematic - but a few question-marks over the credibility of the plot.

Yes, it's a dystopian book. And let's face it, there are rather a few of them around at the moment. However, this definitely stood out from the crowd, thanks to its inventive approach and strong, confident writing.

Eve is the last young female on earth. As this statement implies, the human race has pretty much wrecked itself, and for some reason, women stopped producing female babies a while back. This left humanity in a dire situation, with only one woman to (hopefully) produce more women.

As such, Eve is hidden away from the world in a strange high tower-building called The Dome. She's protected, yet isolated, with only a hologram of 'Holly' to act as her friend. Ironically, Holly is activated by a male called Bram. Even more ironically, they fall in love... and that's when things start getting very interesting.

Without giving too much away, Bram's on a mission to rescue Eve from the cruel situation she's in; but make no mistake, the people of the Dome aren't going to make it easy for him, or the other 'freevers'.

What I really liked about this book was the moral dilemma at the centre of it. Is it acceptable to keep a girl locked up for the greater good? Is it right to treat her like a breeding cow? And what methods of generating further females are permissible?

I also loved the set-up itself. There was something very eerie about the concept of a huge dome, towering over the rest of the messed up population - this weird little place that should be paradise, were it not all completely artificial. Likewise, the characters were good fun - relatable, interesting and certainly not too cliched (apart from the 'bad guy' Vivian - I really wanted to know her back story but the book never quite got there).

One thing that stopped me giving this a full five stars was the problematic plot itself. I couldn't quite comprehend that humanity would ever get to the point where only one woman of child-bearing age existed. How would this situation arise? Wouldn't more be done before it ever got to this state? Whilst I appreciated the drama of the idea, it felt a little too far-fetched for comfort. Likewise this whole 'they just wanted Eve to gain power' plot-line. We've seen that one in other books - I wanted something fresh. Why couldn't it genuinely be a case that they thought they were helping humanity? That would have added a fresh layer of moral ambiguity that would have been interesting.

However, I do accept that this genre often veers into the far-fetched, and in this case, it wasn't to the detriment of my overall enjoyment. I definitely had my nose stuck right into it throughout.

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Oct 20, 2018 Kirsty ❤️ rated it liked it · review of another edition

I haven't read a young adult dystopian novel in a very long time. I got so fed up of the very twee love angles that every author threw in and as a woman in her mid-40's I wanted more out of a book (which is fine, they're not written for me). I choose this to have another try simply because of the authors and it hasn't really made me want to start reading these books again.

I found it to be a book of two halves and I didn't really enjoy the first half. I felt it took too long to get going, there ...more

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Jun 03, 2018 Kayleigh {K-Books} rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: dystopia

Eve of Man Review on K-Books <- goes live on June 27, 2018

"I guess reality is just the world with which we are presented."

Eve of Man is a book that I was super excited about since the moment I first heard about it. I already adore Giovanna Fletcher's books so when I heard she and Tom were writing a YA Dystopia series I couldn't wait. I absolutely adore YA Dystopia books. Eve of Man sounded amazing and I knew I would love it... and I wasn't wrong. It was everything I could have wanted and mor ...more

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Jul 23, 2020 ✨ kathryn ✨ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020, reading-rush-2020, sci-fi

This took me a good 50 pages to get into, but once I passed that point, I was hooked. Amazing. Can't wait to read the next instalment. ...more

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May 12, 2019 Tucker (TuckerTheReader) added it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, romance, arc-physical, dystopian, young-adult

Many thanks to Random House Books for Young Readers for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review

AGAINST ALL ODDS, SHE SURVIVED.
THE FIRST GIRL BORN IN FIFTY YEARS.
THEY CALLED HER EVE . . .

A really creative dystopia idea that fell short. Not to say that it’s bad but it’s wasn’t mind blowingly good.

So, what’s this book about
This book follows Eve the last girl on the planet. She is now of age and must start to basically re-populate the word. But there’s one issue. She does ...more

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May 06, 2020 Amybibliophile rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This book was insane! I can’t even get my thoughts in order to review it properly! I will be back with something of a review once I comprehend what I have just read

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Apr 29, 2019 Clara (The Bookworm of Notre-Dame) rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, science-fiction, dystopia, owlsreadathon2019

2.5 ⭐️

Well... That was a total let down. It could have been so much more, yet it wasn’t. I know it’s the first book in a series but we learned nothing about the world the characters lived in and it was pretty cliché. Plus the whole men/women dynamic was based on stereotypes, which made me roll my eyes more than once. I’m really sad I didn’t like it as I have adored the authors for half of my life and will forever admire them, but this book didn’t work out for me.

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Aug 18, 2019 Bookish Penguin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: dystopian

I mean I guess I have a controversial opinion?? Because let's face it: Eve should reproduce. And that pretty fast and she should give birth to many many girls. Becauuseeee otherwise the whole humanity is damned.
I understand that she wants to live a good life and love and so and and so on. But the whole world? Come on. It's shitty and all but I thought she understood. I thought everyone did but apparently it's better to not reproduce? Whatever
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Jul 17, 2018 Sandra (LadyGrey Reads) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: series-that-i-read, 5-star-favorites, need-reviews, 2018-reads, 2018-top-ten, 2018-book-of-the-month, 2018-summer-books

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May 25, 2018 Jen rated it liked it · review of another edition

Loved the idea for this book and think the title is very clever.

Both the main characters Eve and Bram have really distinctive voices and we feel for each of them in their own way.

It's nice that even though we spend the majority of time within the Tower we still get a sense of the growing pains of the outside world.

Some elements of the story felt quite contrived and the language was almost too simple for a young adult book which sometimes made the story feel more slow/boring than it actually wa ...more

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Aug 28, 2020 Chloe rated it liked it · review of another edition

This was okay, but I feel like it tried to accomplish too much?

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Aug 08, 2018 Dorine rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, 2018

I finished this book today and immediately wrote a review, no endless procrastination this time! I'm kinda proud about that haha.

Do you ever read a book and think, this would make such a cool movie?
That's what I felt while reading this book. I personally like my dystopian's as movies, the stories usually work great on the big screen. I would love to see the visuals of this book especially Holly, Eve's holographic friend, would be really interesting to see visualised.

Let me first say that I love ...more

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Jun 14, 2018 Kayleigh rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

From the moment I heard about this book I was really intrigued by the whole concept of the story.
It’s a dystopian like none I’ve ever read before built on the premise of only boys being born in decades, Eve being the first girl born in fifty years and her duty to help humanity survive.

I loved it!
It’s written in a way that keeps you glued to the pages and the characters are written so well, I adore Eve and Bram!

The story flows easily and has you rooting for the good guys throughout and I’m so gla ...more

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Feb 15, 2020 Tasha rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Meet Eve. The first girl to be born in 50 years. The saviour of all humanity. The hope for the future.

Set in a dystopian world that has been destroyed by climate change, Eve of Man tells a story of how suddenly girls stopped being born. Boys were born safe and healthy but no girls. Tests and experiments were performed but to no avail.

And then comes Eve. The first girl to be born in 50 years. The hope the world had been waiting for. The girl with the power to save the world.

Eve is a great main c Meet Eve. The first girl to be born in 50 years. The saviour of all humanity. The hope for the future.

Set in a dystopian world that has been destroyed by climate change, Eve of Man tells a story of how suddenly girls stopped being born. Boys were born safe and healthy but no girls. Tests and experiments were performed but to no avail.

And then comes Eve. The first girl to be born in 50 years. The hope the world had been waiting for. The girl with the power to save the world.

Eve is a great main character to follow. At the beginning of the book she is a young girl about to start meeting three potential boys who have been picked for her, one of which she will choose to start repopulating the world with. We watch as she finds her voice, as she realises the world around her is not as it seems and she starts to stand up for herself more, pushing the boundaries and rebelling.

The whole way through I was rooting for Eve. This poor girl who just happened to be born, has spent her whole life being controlled and lied to, every decision taken away from her. The only friend she has in the world is a hologram, Holly, who was created to befriend her and become her confidant. Eve lives such a lonely life and it's hard to imagine what it must be like for her.

Then there is Bram. Bram controls Holly and has been friends with Eve since they were little. But he's starting to have his eyes opened to the world around him too. As Bram and Eve become closer, things become more dangerous for him and, well I'll leave it there because I don't want to give any more away!

The first half of the book is scene setting, character introductions and world building. I found the world they live in fascinating, how humans and climate change had ruined the planet, London is now half under floodwater, I'm hoping to learn more about it in book 2!

In the second half the action picks up and becomes a lot more fast paced. It finishes on one hell of a cliffhanger and leaves you dying to find out what happens next, luckily for me there isn't long to wait for book 2 since it's out in April!

I really enjoyed this book! The storyline is interesting, it's well written and fast paced, it's a really enjoyable read. I think I definitely prefer YA dystopia to adult, it's not as dark although there is an edge to it. And although the romance can be a little soppy I actually didn't find it too vomit inducing in this book, though we'll see what book 2 brings! ...more

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Jan 11, 2020 Abby rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: would-read-again

3.5/5

Since Giovanna Fletcher is a more contemporary author, I was curious to see how she would do with a science fiction book. And honestly, it was pretty good. So we have a civilization that has only birthed males for 50 years. Enter Eve, the first female born after that time. She's been sheltered her entire life, protected as the savior of humanity. We also have Bram, operator of the AI simulation that acts as Eve's best friend. He's grown close to her through the years, but only sees her thro ...more

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Jul 25, 2018 Faroukh Naseem rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Book Review: Eve of Man (Thank you @penguinukbooks for sending me a copy!)
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Giovanna and Tom Fletcher collaborate to bring us the story of Eve and Bram.
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The premise:
The premise is very interesting, Eve is the first girl to be born in 50 years and obviously all eyes are on her in hopes that she can carry forward the human race once she comes of age. Eve is taken care of by a corporation based in a tower where she lives in ‘The Dome’ and is disconnected from the outer world. The only friend she has Book Review: Eve of Man (Thank you @penguinukbooks for sending me a copy!)
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Giovanna and Tom Fletcher collaborate to bring us the story of Eve and Bram.
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The premise:
The premise is very interesting, Eve is the first girl to be born in 50 years and obviously all eyes are on her in hopes that she can carry forward the human race once she comes of age. Eve is taken care of by a corporation based in a tower where she lives in ‘The Dome’ and is disconnected from the outer world. The only friend she has is Holly (An AI bot controlled remotely by ‘pilots’, one of them being Bram.)
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The world:
The planet is drowned in water and the world outside the Tower is in shambles. There is a huge disconnect between what goes on inside it and what’s on the outside. The outside world barely gets mentioned until we reach the latter part of the book, which seemed like a big mistake.
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World building:
Normally when it comes to the dystopian genre you would expect efficient world building. But since the first half of the book is based inside the Tower and what’s outside it only comes in play in the second half, there is a huge disconnect. We’re kept in the dark (probably unintentionally) and it doesn’t work. Unless you’re only interested in what happens between Eve and Bram, you’d want to know more about this dystopian world.
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Narration:
Chapters are divided between Eve and Bram and it seems like each author wrote one of the characters chapters, there isn’t any cohesion between the two. This isn’t that bad a thing because each of the characters chapters is easily distinguishable and you could say each character has a voice of its own. I’d have enjoyed it a lot more if the tower and what’s outside had alternate chapters.
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Characters:
The characters are all extremely predictable. There’s no depth to any of them. Character development is non existent and sometimes even forced. I think there wasn’t a single one of them that had a distinct identity, it seemed that all of them were set to default character settings and let go.
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The execution:
I expected this to happen and the answer is yes, the book turns into a Damsel-in-distress-where-is-my-savior plot. It was almost unbearable in the last 100 pages where every movement was thoroughly explained and there was nothing left for me to think about. Every thing was extremely dramatized and the one time something was kept a secret, it seemed forced and well, it wasn’t really a plot twisting secret.
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Over all, I think I’d have enjoyed this and maybe even recommended it if I was a teenager. Unfortunately I’m no longer one. ...more

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Jul 04, 2018 Ema Smith rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

O M G give me the next book now......please 😭
A million stars!

I loved this book from the very start to the very end!!
Every chapter left me wanting more.
Perfectly written, fantastic story and characters!
Again another book with two character perspectives and it works so well!
If you have been wondering........
Do I pick it up.........
YES.....YES you should!
👌❤

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May 31, 2018 Elaine rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: adult, mystery, puzzles, netgalley, romance, suspense, small-community, 2018, adventure, series

My immediate reaction after finishing reading this was to post a tweet tagging the authors:

"Anyone else hate it when you're reading a brilliant story, totally engrossed in it, desperate to know what happens next and you see those three dreadful words:

To be continued . . . .

Argh!!! Eve of Man by @TomFletcher and @MrsGiFletcher - I need the next two books now, please!!"

I still need those next books, please!

This is a dystopian story in which no girls have been born for fifty years, well, no girls e ...more

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Apr 04, 2018 Ashleigh rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Pretty good. Nothing too outrageous but i like the idea and characters enough to want to keep on reading. I would be keen to keep reading the series also.

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Jun 02, 2018 Aoife rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, better-than-expected, dystopian-wonder, ya

I received a free digital copy of this book from the publishers/author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Imagine a world full of men and no women. That’s what the future looks like when no female babies are born for over 50 years until Eve. Sixteen years later, Eve has grown up in a paradise created just for her, and she’s ready to embark on her mission to save the species. But how much of what she has been told is a lie, and is she really with the people who want what’s best for he I received a free digital copy of this book from the publishers/author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Imagine a world full of men and no women. That’s what the future looks like when no female babies are born for over 50 years until Eve. Sixteen years later, Eve has grown up in a paradise created just for her, and she’s ready to embark on her mission to save the species. But how much of what she has been told is a lie, and is she really with the people who want what’s best for her?

I think I need to formally apologise to Tom and Giovanna Fletcher because this book was so much better than I thought it was going to be. I found the idea intriguing but I just assumed this would end up being a weird mish-mash of all the other dystopian books that have come before and be just an ‘alright’ read. But it was actually really good.

Eve of Man definitely stood up on its own for me, and I was instantly captivated by Eve’s character, as well as Bram’s and their different but equally sheltered worlds. The age of technology in this novel is also fascinating but it does make you wonder if they can do so much stuff with holograms, and conscious AIs, why can’t they create baby girls? Obviously a lot of this gets explained over the course of the book but I liked being able to ponder about it by myself for a while.

There is not a whole lot of world building in this book, at least for the first there quarters anyway as both Eve and Bram are in a very sheltered building away from the real world that is basically just gone to hell (because that’s what happens when things are left to men, duh).

One of the things that did bother me slightly was the lack of queer representation in this book. Surely, in a world full of men there would be A LOT of gay/bi/queer characters??? There was one brief mention of men kissing and that was it. I feel like there was the potential there to have some fantastic openly queer and proud characters and the Fletchers just didn’t take it up. Hopefully in the sequel!

On a side note - there was mention that the make-up industry was practically dead because of the lack of women. Umm men wear make-up too? The drag community alone would probably keep that industry going! ...more

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May 31, 2019 Maria rated it it was ok · review of another edition

While I thought that the premise and the first chapter were intriguing, this soon became another typical dystopian YA novel and by now I'm just really over that.

I can see the appeal for the target audience, I really can. But since I'm not part of it, I didn't really enjoy this book. ...more

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