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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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