Book Review: Eve

Eve by Anna Carey

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



Eve has grown up in a school like orphanage since she was five and orphaned by the plague that killed nearly everyone. Now at the end of her School education and as valedictorian of her class, she eagerly awaits graduation and her trip across the School lake where she and all the other girls will go to learn how to become artists and teachers. All the teachers at the School have been teaching them that they will be an integral part of rebuilding New America. There are no boys at the school, they have been taught that men are dangerous and only want to harm them. The only man they can trust is the leader of New America and he may even come to hear Eve's valedictorian speech. But Eve's celebration revelry is cruelly shortened when she witnesses a classmate running away into the dangerous wild outside of the school walls, but not before the same girl tells her that learning an art trade is not what Eve will be doing when she graduates. Eve doesn't believe her and decides to find out for herself. What she sees is gruesome and straight out of a nightmare. All the pieces start to fall into place for Eve: why all the girls' nutrition is monitored so closely; why they must receive these strange monthly shots that make them all feel terrible; why they must be the best of the best; why they're locked inside the School. Eve escapes from her horrible nightmare of a future with help of a teacher, but she finds that the world outside the School walls is just as dangerous as she's been taught. Until someone saves her life- a boy. Can she learn to trust that he will keep her safe by any means or should she fear his motives as she's been taught her whole life? I totally loved this book. Even though there was a cliffhanger ending, I still love it for really surprising me. I eagerly await the sequel... if there is one. Oh please tell me there will be a sequel!!!!!!



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