The first instalment cover
'Eve Of Man' is an Young Adult/Dystopian trilogy, the first instalment published in 2018 by author couple Giovanna & Tom Fletcher.
The story hypothesises a dystopian future in which the first girl, Eve, is born after a 50-year female drought to a world of men and corruption. Eve is taken control of by the EPO: the Eve Protection Organisation, and struggles with her adolescence spent in isolation and her impending Humanity-saving and life-changing pregnancy, only to fall in love with a boy, Bram, who controls her virtual-friend.
Provides examples of:
- All Men Are Perverts
- Abusive Parents: Bram's father.
- Biblical Motifs:
- The Great Flood, which is never explained.
- Adam and Eve Plot
- Garden of Eden
- Messianic Archetype: Eve.
- Chekhov's Gun: The seemingly-insignificant Rubik's Cube eventually frees Eve from The Tower. Who would've thought?
- Aditionally, the glove-escape technology we hear SO much about eventually saves Eve and Bram from certain death.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Eve and Bram, although Bram was technically Holly, and Eve never knew who Bram was.
- Despite this, Bram is ready to give up his life Eve after only meeting her properly after 5 minutes??
- Complexity Addiction: 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.
- Gaia's Vengeance: Mother Nature is NOT happy about EPO messing with the Human race. No wonder no girls are born.
- Girl in the Tower: The Tower was built to contain Eve.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Eve is saved by Mother Nina's sacrifice.
- Holographic Disguise: Holly, technically, as Bram pilots her.
- Kid Hero: Bram and most of the Feevers are teenage boys.
- La Résistance: the Freevers.
- Love Makes You Crazy: Bram behaves very irrationally when he meets Eve in person.
- Mad Scientist: Most of EPO's staff, particularly Dr Wells, Bram's crazy father.
- Near-Rape Experience: Michael the 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.
- President Evil: Vivian Silva.
- Flat Character also applies.
- Purple Prose: Eve's chapters, basically.
- Smooch of Victory: Bram and Eve finally reunite with a kiss.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Eve when she is cornered in the lift.
- Additionally, the disparaging and sleazy comments made regarding Eve by Jackson, which Bram doesn't like.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Eve and Bram fall in love despite their respective societal roles and jobs.
- Switching P.O.V.: The chapters alternate from both Eve and Bram's perspectives.
- The Dulcinea Effect: 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.
- The Law of Conservation of Detail: We hear a lot about what Eve is wearing.
- Virgin in a White Dress: Eve, when presented to her suitors.
- Was It All a Lie?: 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.
- The symbolic garden where Eve seeks solace turns out to be another floor in the tower.
