Book Review: Eve & Adam

“We are at a turning point of revolution species. Evolution has blindly felt its way forward , now, we, the product of evolution are taking the wheel. We soon will have the ability to design and create the new human, evolution still, but guided evolution...of course, only on computer simulation.” 


Lots of book reviewing coming up, and actually a lot of very flattering book reviewing coming up.


So, I mentioned in my review of The Martian that I had an example of the other acceptable SciFi treatment--claiming character ignorance of the technical details--coming up.  This is that SciFi offering.  I didn't say that made it an amazing book, just acceptable scifi.

Evening (Eve) Spiker has been tasked with what she believes is just a game--come up with the perfect male.  But could it be more devious than that?  With her mother being a genetics company tycoon, Eve starts to worry that the Adam Project is not the simple little educational outreach project she has been told it is, but an actual genetic engineering program.  And Eve has to ask herself if her mother's ethics have been compromised.

Eve and Adam was a nice little teen scifi.  Nothing more.

A fun, enjoyable story with a lot of twists and turns. Likable characters, and a nice little moral. An exciting little adventure and a cutesy little dash of romance. However, it wasn't really that well-written. Undeveloped prose, and plot-hole ridden, though, as a medical scientist, I actually appreciate that they only explained the science as far as they knew and then glossed over the rest as "I didn't do it. I don't know how they did it. They somehow did." If you don't understand science enough, just make your POV characters not understand it. It's better than trying to explain it and just look silly. But, this is definitely soft sci-fi.

Still, a fun story for teens, if somewhat mediocre. My inner-teenage girl was fed, but I don't know that I'd actively recommend it to anyone. 

3 stars.   Though I did want to knock off a star for present-tense prose.

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