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A review by writeronherway
Eve of Man by Giovanna Fletcher, Tom Fletcher
4.0
I listened to the audiobook version read by Charlotte Ritchie and Josh Dylan who did a fantastic job! Eve of Man is a bit like dystopian Rapunzel meets The Quiet at the End of the World by Lauren James.
Eve is the first girl born in fifty years. She lives in a high tech tower that provides her with everything she could ever want except the opportunity to live a normal life, to fall in love and have a relationship like her parents did. At sixteen she is expected to choose from three potential males and then give birth to more females. She starts to suspect that the people keeping her safe have also been keeping her in the dark about the world outside the tower. The only person she really trusts is ‘her’ version of Holly (her projected female best friend piloted by Bram) but when she meets Bram as himself when there is a threat against her life she begins to believe in a different version of the future; one where she has control and the freedom to choose.
When you read the plot like that, it sounds really twisted and it is but it also makes you think. Eve’s situation is terrifying and deeply unsettling. You want her to escape but you feel like she wouldn’t be any safer out there either? I like a futuristic dystopia which takes a problem to it’s extreme and asks what if this got really out of hand? I think the narration made it for me. I’m not sure I would have enjoyed it as much otherwise. If I’m really picky, the nature vs science argument could be problematic in places and some of the worldbuilding starts to fall apart but I’m interested to see where it goes.
Eve is the first girl born in fifty years. She lives in a high tech tower that provides her with everything she could ever want except the opportunity to live a normal life, to fall in love and have a relationship like her parents did. At sixteen she is expected to choose from three potential males and then give birth to more females. She starts to suspect that the people keeping her safe have also been keeping her in the dark about the world outside the tower. The only person she really trusts is ‘her’ version of Holly (her projected female best friend piloted by Bram) but when she meets Bram as himself when there is a threat against her life she begins to believe in a different version of the future; one where she has control and the freedom to choose.
When you read the plot like that, it sounds really twisted and it is but it also makes you think. Eve’s situation is terrifying and deeply unsettling. You want her to escape but you feel like she wouldn’t be any safer out there either? I like a futuristic dystopia which takes a problem to it’s extreme and asks what if this got really out of hand? I think the narration made it for me. I’m not sure I would have enjoyed it as much otherwise. If I’m really picky, the nature vs science argument could be problematic in places and some of the worldbuilding starts to fall apart but I’m interested to see where it goes.