Eve

Eve

      

 
  Eve, by Anna Carey, is a great fiction novel about a girl named Eve who unveils a great lie in her society. When Eve discovers that when girls graduate high school and supposedly go to college to learn a trade, they're really held hostage and used as birthing monkeys. It's even worse for Eve, since she's her class's valedictorian, she property of the king, meaning she will bear his children.  In this future world men are supposedly evil, except the king, and all they do is abuse and rape women, and create war. When Eve discovers the real truth about her future, she runs a way, looking for a safe camp, she comes upon a fellow classmate, named Arden, who was never nice to Eve, who's also running away. They meet a guy named Caleb, who takes them to his home, when Eve and Arden get there, Arden is very sick, Leif, the leader of the home Caleb lives in, gives Eve and Arden a room. While Arden is sick, Eve begins teaching the little kids living in the home how to read. Eve is still very frightened by Caleb, she knows deep down that he is not going to hurt her, but she has trouble shaking the base of the knowledge she had been taught her entire life. Right as Eve has fallen in love with Caleb, Leif tells someone the king is looking for her and she and Arden are taken. After she is taken, Eve must choose between true love, or life. She chooses true love, and escapes, she stays with a women and her husband who don't agree with the city's new rules and chose to live outside the city with each other, but when Eve tries to send a signal to Caleb, the police track it and find them. Eve and Arden escape, but the woman and husband are killed. Eve finds Caleb and she, Arden, and him go to a different camp, the one she starting her journey looking for. Eventually they get there, but when they do they discover it's an all girls camp and she stays there while Caleb leaves, to protect her. That's what the book, Eve, is about.

      Eve is not like any other character I've read about before. She actually listens in school, unlike most main characters in books. Eve has let the information she was taught in school sink in and, influence her life. I think Eve is really brave, she found out the truth about her city, and ran away, all in the same night. Considering how difficult it would have been to take in that fact that all she was going to do for the rest of her life was give birth the old man, she called a king's babies. Eve is also very intelligent, she survived in the wild all by herself, she had never even been camping and she was just thrust into a completely different world, and she survived. Eve has bright red hair, she is short, and small. I think Eve is an interesting person to read about, although she sometimes is sappy, I think she was a pretty solid main character. That's what Eve, the main character in the book, is like.

      One theme I found in the book, Eve, is obviously love. Eve loved her mother, even though she died, Eve explained this to one of the little kids living in the camp that Caleb lived in, "I loved my mother, too. I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does." Eve also loved Arden, in a way different than her mother, even though Arden was mean to her when they went to school, they bonded, in a way that they couldn't break, during their multiple near death experiences together. Another person that Eve loved was, of course, Caleb. Eve and Caleb had this conversation, "What if I still want to go?" "Then you'll go," he said. "But I wanted you to know the danger." "There's always danger." "His green eyes met mine. I was starting to see it, how it could happen-me and Caleb." Also, Eve thought this, "I loved every part of him. The smell of his skin, the scar on his cheek, the feel of his fingers pressing into my back. The way he could tell what I was thinking just by looking at me." I think that these quotes from Eve make it clear that she loves Caleb. That's why love is one themes in the book, Eve.

      I thought that Eve was a really good book. I think it had a good balance between romance and action, it wasn't round the clock romance, but not constant action either, which I though was a good thing. I would recommend this book to girls, not boys. I think girls that like romance novels would like this book, but girls that find romance sickening should not read this book. Eve is a fairly long book at 376 pages, but those pages go by fast, as you read 75 pages and don't even realize it. Although I found the novel to be overly sappy at times, the action later in the book makes up for it. Overall, I think that Eve was a really good book, and I will read the rest of the trilogy.

      Anna Carey has written other books, not just Eve. First off, there's the second book in the Eve series, Once. Then there's the final book in the trilogy, Rise. Also, Eve was put into a larger novel called Pitch Dark: Dark Days of Fall Sampler, along with books, Supernaturally, Fateful, Cold Kiss, and A Beautiful Dark. I like the things that Anna Carey writes for Eve. I think she writes beautiful quotes, that are inspirational and almost like poetry. One quote I liked from the book Eve was, "Sometimes it feels like all the things I need to know, I don't. And all the things I do know are completely wrong." Another quote from Eve that I liked is, "Loving someone meant knowing your life would be worse without them in it." Those are some other books that Anna Carey has written. 

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