I haven't read a young adult dystopian novel in a very long time. I got so fed up of the very twee love angles that every author threw in and as a woman in her mid-40's I wanted more out of a book (which is fine, they're not written for me). I choose this to have another try simply because of the authors and it hasn't really made me want to start reading these books again. Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of "Eve of Man (Eve of Man Trilogy #1)" of which I have reviewed voluntary. Eve is the first female to be born in 50 years. In an ageing world destroyed by man, she’s raised away from the conflict in the ‘dome’ - a paradise of school lessons, dancing and talking to her AI ‘friend’ Holly. But there’s more to Holly than meets the eyes. As Eve approaches her 16th birthday, can she accept her inevitable fate as the saviour of her race, or will a forbidden love force secrets out into the open? Navyše v tom nebola sama. Podobne bol na tom aj Bram, ktorý bol jedným z pilotov riadiacich hologram Evinej najlepšej priateľky. On bol takisto úplné zlatíčko, no takisto nesmierne naivný a jeho prebudenie je ešte o čosi surovejšie ako Evine.

Napriek tomu bola Eva veľmi príjemná hrdinka, bola ale veľmi mladučká, no sledovať jej cestu a to, ako postupne otvára oči a zisťuje pravdy nielen o sebe, ale aj o svete, je na jednej strane krásne a na druhej žalostné. V takom prenesenom zmysle som vlastne sledovala dieťa, ktoré zrazu prichádzalo o nevinnosť a svoje ideály tým najkrutejším možným spôsobom. Many thanks to Random House Books for Young Readers for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest reviewSo wie fast jeder. Die Gefühle endlos vieler Männer müssen ja irgendwo hin und außer Eve gibt es ja sonst niemanden. Also werden Männer und Eve (und die älteren Mütter) voneinander getrennt, um Eve zu beschützen, aber es ist viel mehr ein goldener Käfig.

Let the voices of Charlotte Ritchie and Josh Dylan transport you to a dystopian Britain where women are scarce and a male-dominated population rules. Ritchie effortlessly conveys the weight of Eve’s burden – choosing between humanity and her heart – with empathy and conviction. Dylan’s portrayal of Bram, meanwhile, gives listeners a vivid insight into the miserable world outside of Eve’s tower. Together, the narrators draw you into this unorthodox love story and have you rooting for the main protagonists until the unexpected final chapter. Set in a dystopian future where infertility has decimated the female population, Eve was the first girl born in 50 years. Her life is contained to the tower, where she’s watched over by the strict ‘Mothers’. Now 16, humanity’s survival rests in her hands and three suitors have already been selected. But then she meets Bram. An unconventional love story set amidst a chaotic future England, Eve must choose between true love and the future of the human race. Von dem Buch hatte ich vorher noch nichts gehört, ich fand das Cover jedoch ansprechend und Tom Fletcher war mir immerhin schon vom Weihnachtosaurus bekannt. Eine Dystopie hatte ich schon länger nicht mehr gelesen und ich fand den Klappentext recht vielversprechend. Eve ist das erste Mädchen, dass seit fünfzig Jahren geboren wurde. Sie ist die Hoffnung und Zukunft der gesamten Menschheit. Und genau deshalb wurde sie auch ihr gesamtes Leben eingesperrt, eingesperrt an einem Ort, der ihr zu Hause sein sollte. Und zwar solange, bis sie alt genug war um drei potentiellen Erzeugern ihrer zukünftigen Kinder zu begegnen, die ganz akribisch aus hunderten von Männern ausgewählt wurden, damit sie auch ja ein Mädchen gebären würde. Doch irgendwie läuft nichts so, wie es laufen sollte. Denn plötzlich fängt Eve an, Fragen zu stellen. Und noch mehr gerät ihr Leben aus den Fugen, als sie schließlich auf Bram trifft. On the second day they frowned, confused, at another twenty-four hours of blue. Just boys. How baffling. Still, they assumed it was nothing more than coincidence. The Y chromosome was just making more of an appearance than usual.

And it's not long before the deep feelings these two inspire in each other spill over into real time. Another thing, this book focused more on Eve’s journey of self-discovery and her romance with Bram than I expected. It really isn’t an issue. Honestly, I love self-discovery and romance books. The problem is that this was mainly marketed as Sci-fi/Dystopia when I didn’t feel like that at all.

I love love loved the idea behind this novel, but have to admit the reactions of man towards Eve were pretty horrific. Some of them never have seen a woman (they were not allowed to visit public places and were kept save) and are terrified when they see Eve for the first time. There is a solider who's tempted by Eve, so I'll warn you that there's the idea of rape forming in his mind, but he doesn't do it. If you want to avoid any mention of it, you now have been warned. We don't get to see much of the world outside of the dome, but that didn't bother me. There will be further books in this series and I'm curious how things will play out! Die Aufregung im Tower reicht eigentlich auch, um das ganze Buch zu füllen und dabei spannend und unterhaltsam zu bleiben. If there’s a team of writers that can work together it’s Tom and Giovanna. As a massive fan of Gi’s contemporary books, I was very intrigued by them writing a book totally outside of their comfort zone. I personally think they thrive as a couple and when I heard how they wrote it together. It’s seamless, each of them have their own unique voices but they both seem to reflect off each other. As Giovanna writes Eve and Tom – Bram’s point of view, it was just perfect. I’ve heard there another POV in the sequel, so I will be interested how that works. Unsurprisingly she is one hot commodity; kept segregated from the common masses in the tower with the Mothers; Aged woman who have made it there lives vocation to raise her. Was mir gefehlt hat war das Worldbuilding und auch viele Details, die die Welt abrunden. Wenn mir kreative Details auffallen, bin ich immer total begeistert, und das war hier nicht so. Dass es keine Frauen gibt, betrifft ja die ganze Welt, aber außerhalb vom Tower sieht man so wenig. Kein normaler Alltag und auch vom Rest der Welt sieht man nicht viel. Bei einer so globalen Thematik sollte man mehr Faktoren mit einbeziehen.Dann kam die Liebesgeschichte ins Spiel und ich dachte mir: okay, der Fokus liegt halt auf der Lovestory. But let’s cover the positive. I was talking to my mom about this book and she made me realize something. The authors and all authors work really hard on their books. And it shows. The writing was beautiful and captivating. I can tell that these writers have talent and I’m sure they will hit some gold and find a book that works for every reader. Her only companion aside from the mothers is Holly a kind of ready-made best-friend; she's a sort of hologram run by three drivers one of whom is Bram. I wasn't a huge fan of the writing style at first because all the sentence fragments irked the pedant in me. The exposition is also pretty clumsy, and there are quite a few abrupt info dumps. However, the flow of the narrative improves once the story really gets going, and in the end I didn't really mind it.

This is told in dual POV from Both Eve and Brams perspective and though there was a budding romance here this is a completely clean YA and the romance is more of a secondary concern the main focus being on the underlying greater purpose and the breakdown in society.. Eve of Man follows Eve, the only girl to have been born in 50 years. She is necessary to keep the human race going. However, life starts to take her down a path that her captors had never planned for her when she meets Bram.Again, I really liked this idea for a dystopia. Some of the best dystopias can be created with a simple “What if?” That said, I was rather disappointed. I wanted to see more of the science fiction. I needed more information. I wanted to know more about the why and how all the girls stop being born.