The following review is by an 8th grader from St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. Millie is one of those readers that every librarian and book seller hopes will walk through their doors. She is an opinionated, voracious, choosy reader, and I love talking to her about books. She has read Anna Carey’s debut novel Eve, and as always, is here to tell if this book held her interest:

Eve is unlike any other Dystopian or Post-Apocalyptic novel I have ever had the pleasure of reading. From the get-go Eve had me wrapped up in the world and lives of Caleb and Eve. This exquisite page-turner is practically impossible to put down! The world of “New America” is extremely addicting and an eye opener to how love can survive even the toughest situations with characters as inexperienced as they are. Rather than having brain-craving zombies running amuck, the world’s run with an extremely oppressive totalitarian government, which runs on subordination, ignorance, and the willingness of the people to serve.

Sixteen-year-old Eve lives in the dystopic, post-apocalyptic world, which was devastated by a plague ten-year prior. The plague killed the majority of women in New America, including Eve’s mother. With a dead mother and a father who abandoned her at a very young age out of the picture, Eve was sent to government run boarding school, as were many other girls her age. In 2025, she is valedictorian and ecstatic about crossing the lake, where all sixteen year olds go to learn a specific trade. Days before graduation the school outcast, Arden, tells Eve that across the lake is a mass reproduction hospital for the dying country of New America. Arden was right and Eve runs away the night before graduation, leaving her friends and world behind. Eve is a story of living in a broken world with misconceptions, tyranny, and pure, innocent love. It is survival of the fittest. She soon discovers the fears and secrets of the perilous, sexist, outside world with Arden and her love-interest Caleb.

Eve is unforgettable story of uncovering the truth, and rediscovering the true meaning of love in a practically barbaric world, and learning how to survive in a dilapidated, scary world. Eve is the first of The Eve Trilogy. I cannot wait for the second installment of this promising series!

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