Line #21 Literature/EveOfMan


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2	[[caption-width-right:250:The first installment cover]]
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4	'Eve of Man' is a Young Adult/Dystopian trilogy, the first installment published in 2018 by author couple Giovanna & Tom Fletcher.
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6	The story hypothesises a [[EmpireWithADarkSecret dystopian]] future in which the first girl, [[AdamAndOrEve Eve]], is born after a 50-year female drought to a [[CrapsackWorld world]] of men and corruption. Eve is taken control of by the [[FictionalPoliticalParty EPO: the Eve Protection Organisation]], and struggles with her adolescence spent in isolation and her impending [[MessianicArchetype Humanity-saving]] and life-changing [[AdamAndEvePlot pregnancy]], only to fall in love with a boy, Bram, who controls her virtual-friend.
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8	!!Provides examples of:
9	* AllMenArePerverts
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11	* AbusiveParents: Bram's father. He's entirely uninterested in his son unless he can use him somehow.
12	** A flashback reveals his poor treatment of Bram's mother as well.
13	* {{Anvilicious}}: Do not mess with Mother Nature's grand plan, or society will crumble to nothing and an evil corporation will run your life.
14	* BiblicalMotifs:
15	** TheGreatFlood: This is what remains of civilisation, and is presumably caused by societal collapse because of the shortage of girls.
16	** AdamAndEvePlot
17	** GardenOfEden: An actual floor in The Tower, which has been constructed to lead Eve into believing she visits the outside world.
18	** MessianicArchetype: Eve.
19	** TowerOfBabel: The Tower itself. This trope is played somewhat straight, as although it didn't offend 'God' literally in the book, Eve did manage to 'crumble' it when she escapes.
20	* ChekhovsGun: The seemingly-insignificant Rubik's Cube eventually frees Eve from The Tower. Who would've thought?
21	** Aditionally, the glove-escape technology we hear SO much about eventually saves Eve and Bram from certain death.
22	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Eve and Bram, although Bram was technically Holly, and Eve never knew who Bram was.
23	* ComplexityAddiction: Bram and his team create an overly complex plan to rescue Eve that could've been made far easier, but, for the sake of action, we were given a whole chapter to watch their near-ridiculous plan unfold.
24	* GaiasVengeance: Mother Nature is NOT happy about EPO messing with the Human race. No wonder no girls are born.
25	* GirlInTheTower: The Tower was built to contain [[DamselInDistress Eve]].
26	* HeroicSacrifice: Eve is saved by [[ParentalSubstitute Mother Nina's]] sacrifice.
27	* HolographicDisguise: Holly, technically, as Bram pilots her.
28	* KidHero: Bram and most of the Feevers are teenage boys.
29	* LaResistance: The Freevers, a team of men and (remaining) women who campaign to free Eve and are relentlessly pursued by EPO.
30	* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Bram behaves very irrationally when he meets Eve in person.
31	* MadScientist: Most of EPO's staff, particularly Dr Wells, Bram's crazy father.
32	* NearRapeExperience: A security guard corners Eve in the lift when he saves her, and almost rapes Eve but stops himself out of guilt and persuasion. He instead comforts the traumatised Eve.
33	* PresidentEvil: Vivian Silva.
34	** FlatCharacter also applies.
35	* PurpleProse: Eve's chapters, basically.
36	* SmoochOfVictory: Bram and Eve finally reunite with a kiss.
37	* StarCrossedLovers: Eve and Bram fall in love despite their respective societal roles and jobs; Eve's being repopulating the Earth, Bram's being a corporate slave.
38	* SwitchingPOV: The chapters alternate from both Eve and Bram's perspectives.
39	* TheDulcineaEffect: Bram seems ready to give up his life for Eve, despite never meeting her in the flesh and not under controlled conditions until a third into the book.
40	* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: Subverted, as we hear a lot about what Eve is wearing which bears no relevance to the plot.
41	* VirginInAWhiteDress: Eve, when presented to her suitors.
42	* WasItAllALie: When the truth about her reality surfaces, Eve realises her world was a carefully orchestrated lie done by Vivian Silva to protect and brainwash her.

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