Eve and Adam (Eve & Adam #1)

From the moment I plucked the book out from my bookshelf, I initially thought I was bracing myself from another intense science-fiction read. Just by reading the synopsis, I knew that this novel will be smothered with biology and pharmaceuticals and just . . . pure science. But upon fully indulging in the story inspired by Adam and Eve from the Bible, I realize that Eve & Adam by Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate is a lighthearted read, filled with humorous and sarcastic dialogues and a quite adorable bunch of teenagers.

Great. Heard there might be a sequel, but I think this one wrapped up nicely.

Eve & Adam certainly starts out with a bang! Literally! I was hooked from the very first sentence. Although I was also quite disturbed since Eve’s leg gets ripped clean off, but aside from that, this book is awesome. It’s not perfect, but it’s definitely a great, fun, unique read.

This is a rare case where I wished for Disappearing Parent Syndrome. Well, Eve’s dad is dead, but her mom…OMG, she is Satan! I hated her immediately and just wanted her to shut up and go away. I guess being a bitch comes along with being an uber rich, uber important scientist though. I normally enjoy evil characters, but she had no known motivation, which made her just frustrating rather than interesting.

Solo, you are a creep! A super smart creep, but still a creep. His chapters are interesting, and he becomes less creepy as the story moves forward. At first his connection to the Adam Project isn’t clear at all, and I couldn’t figure out why he was so adamant about bringing Terre Spiker down (aside from her being a crazy bitch of course). But all is revealed close to the end, and it’s kind of a shock!

Aislin, the BFF, is a total mess and I suppose she was the catalyst for the big reveal about Eve’s medical situation. However, her plot in general was really random and felt out of place. It all involves her gang-banger boyfriend and other thugs running lose in San Francisco and money drops. By the end I failed to see the point of her plot. As a character though, I really like Aislin. She’s the opposite of Eve in almost every way and provided some great comic relief.

I don’t have anything to say about Eve, so let’s get to the plot. I loved it! I am a huge fan of science in books, so of course I was completely engrossed in this one! Genetics isn’t my strong suit, but I understand enough. Is what Terra’s company doing possible? I have no clue, but it sure makes for an entertaining read! Oh, and of course creating the perfect male specimen is all kinds of fun, too!

All in all, Eve and Adam is a super fun, sci-fi book. I love the science and the technology, and the possibilities that this book presents. It’s a very fast read, and I’d recommend it!

I'm not sure how I feel about this one...

Eve and Adam is kind of like The Adoration of Jenna Fox, which I absolutely adored (like the name says I would). But, where the story about Jenna Fox seemed more real, Eve and Adam seemed almost too big of a concept to wrap your head around.

One thing that made it hard for me to like this book: the characters. I didn't particularly care for hardly any of the few introduced, they all seemed so flat and lifeless. Eve and her mother are both perfectionists, while Eve is pretty nice but stiff, her mother has seriously got something stuck up somewhere (if you know what I mean). Solo was kind of cool, except for the fact that he just randomly falls in love? Like, what? I didn't buy that romance at all (which doesn't even show up until the back half). Eve's friend was kind of fun, but she was also pretty dumb and I got pretty mad at the mistake's she was making (because no one else would).

The action: just showed up in the end. Literally. Not there, and then all of a sudden: BOOM.

There were a lot of weird things happening seemingly for no reason but never get explained in the end. One that really bothered me was: in the beginning, Eve gets hit, and she makes this huge deal about seeing an apple and how that's the reason why she got hit...because she was looking at an apple. I thought the apple would later play some type of importance, but not yet.

I don't know if I'll read the next one, probably just to see if the first book in the series had just been an introductory and the rest gets better.