Eve & Adam - Michael Grant, Katherine Applegate

Review: Eve & Adam
Authors: Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate
Rating: 3/5

Genre: Science-fiction

Recommend To: fans of Partials

This was not the most original book I've read all year. Just based on the cover, the whole mother is in charge of a biochem lab; the whole thing was screaming GENETICALLY MODIFIED MUTANT STUFF HAPPENING HERE. Yeah it was obvious. But it was still very enjoyable. 

It was interesting enough (just not surprising). Evening Spiker is tasked by her mother to program a human being, DNA and up. Of course she picks male. (DUH) However, the company her mother heads has some funky stuff underfoot (wow who didn't see that one?) and is breaking the law and creating biological anomalies (*gasp! WHAT?* Yeah not really) and the cute boy who works around the building thinks it's Eve's mom who's the head of the whole operation. He plans to bring the company down to expose the atrocities occurring, all the while Eve is slightly clueless. ("I'm only creating him using the program, the billion dollar biochemistry company my mom is the CEO for would never actually do something with it!") Right. Thanks for your input Eve. 

Beyond that though, the concept was cute, the wee romance was also adorable. There was not much of actual chemistry I guess, but for the book's sake let's say that Eve and Solo were cute. His determination to bring down her ruthless mother was commendable (lol). Adam....eh. I loved Aislin though, it was hard not to. She was very dumb, but I was happy in the end. Best friends are usually fun side characters and Aislin was no exception. He nherent dumbness was frustrating but that was sort of the point. She was always there for Eve. 

Terra Spiker is probably the baddest, most awesome woman ever. I hated her at first, but at the end I was totally in awe. She's that person who is emotionless, but only on the outside, and will not hesitate to TAKE YOU DOWN.

It was very predictable, and utterly simple. Even the horrifying creatures didn't really make me shiver in fear or anything. It was too straightforward. But on a hot summer day, or a cozy winter day, this book would be a good companion. It's a good tale and ends neatly. It's fantastic stand-alone book because it ends so tidily, I probably liked the ending a good amount more than the beginning of the book. The bad guys were bad, they died, the good guys were good, they lived. It was undemanding, but maybe at times, that is exactly what is needed.