Chapters alternate between Eve’s and Bram’s perspectives, fruitfully intertwining into a heady page-turner. Part meditation on reproductive rights, part dystopian thriller, the novel casts a wide web of intrigue, deception, and hope. Meanwhile, Bram uncovers the Tower’s secrets and falls into the climate-ravaged world below, joining a rebel group of Freevers who wish to reclaim Eve as a symbol. Slowly, Eve questions the reality shaped around her and begins to rebel. Isaac Wells, Bram forms a bond with Eve, which disrupts the EPO’s plans.
In defiance of threats from his abusive father, the brilliant Dr. Complicating matters is 18-year-old Bram, a hologram pilot in the Extinction Prevention Organization. When meetings with the first two potential mates have disastrous results, the Revival program spirals into a state of utmost urgency. Now 16 years old, she must choose a mate to procreate with under the watchful, stern eye of lead Mother, Vivian Silva. Sequestered in the Dome atop the all-pervasive Tower, Eve represents humanity’s last hope to slow humankind’s descent into irrelevance.
Fifty years have passed since the birth of a girl on Earth-until Eve, that is.
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