Author: Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
Page: 291
Goodreads synopsis:
And girl created boy…
In the beginning, there was an apple—
And then there was a car crash, a horrible injury, and a hospital. But before Evening Spiker’s head clears a strange boy named Solo is rushing her to her mother’s research facility. There, under the best care available, Eve is left alone to heal.
Just when Eve thinks she will die—not from her injuries, but from boredom—her mother gives her a special project: Create the perfect boy.
Using an amazingly detailed simulation, Eve starts building a boy from the ground up. Eve is creating Adam. And he will be just perfect... won’t he?
Review:
Look at the cover. Isn't it swoon worthy? This book can actually be summarise by one quote which is "Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly". Although this book talks about the supposed conspiracy that Eve's mother is up to, I see it more as a love story. Ah, teenage love. I sound like an old lady, didn't I. I assure you, I'm a barely twenty teen that have never experienced love.
Eve had an accident. Her mother whisk her away from the general hospital to her own medical facility as it is the best in the world and had cured countless diseases. There, she met Solo whose character does not just draw her in by he seems mysterious enough.
Solo is actually her mother's ward. He had been living at the facility for almost a decade. He befriended Eve, but not without an ulterior motive. During his stay there, he believed that he had uncovered a conspiracy where Eve's mother, Tera had done severe experiments that lead to many grotesque deformities in humans and animals alike. He thought that she was an ice queen who stop at nothing to gain profit. He rationalizes his action of taking down Spiker's Corporation is for the greater good. The fact that he's taking down his parents' murderer is just an added bonus.
But then his perfect plan became not so perfect when Eve is involved. When he included her in the plan, she readily helped but they learned something valuable along the way. Not everybody who appeared bad is bad. and before we assume, we should do this crazy method called asking.
Before I forget, almost half of the book talked about how Eve created Adam. I literally mean created as he was not patch up like Frankenstein. He was genetically built, raises in a tank and was utter perfection. Since Eve is a perfectionist, she designed everything according to her heart's desire. However, in the end, she did not choose Adam. This shows that we do not need perfection. He's perfect but too perfect for her. Adam is not perfect to her best friend. he got a great IQ and all but he is still a baby in a sense. He match up well with her.
The best friend that I was talking about has bad luck with boys. It's not that she's not pretty but she tends to fall for the bad boy. She was also one of the source of conflict in this book. Why? Her boyfriend is a pot dealer and did not like to pay his benefactor. Being a good girlfriend, she would always shell out money for him. It's a relief that she finally got the guts to just dump him. In my opinion, it would be much more fun id\f she just pull the trigger and kill him. Such worthless creature should not be allowed to live. He endangers her, ruins her and steal depends on her. That is not a quality a man should have. Not to mention that he's a coward as well.
Okay, I'm sorry that my review sounds kinda like a summary of the story. It's just that, it was such a quick read that not much things register. It was a bit too perfect for my taste. The conspiracy was over quickly although not entirely predictable. Everything was resolved in the end. It's just that I've read other books by Michael Grant and compared to the previous book, it's way to easy. His other dystopian books gave me nightmares.
By the way, here's another cover for the book. It's not that pretty but this is the cover for the book that is sold in my country.
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