Eve & Adam-Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate

In the beginning, there was an apple.   And then there was a car crash, a horrible, debilitating injury, and a hospital. But before Evening Spiker could regain consciousness, there was a strange boy checking her out of the hospital and rushing her to Spiker Biopharmaceuticals, her mother's research facility. Once there, Eve has to heal, and cope with an eerie isolation only interrupted by her overbearing mother, a strange group of doctors, and the mysterious boy who brought her there.   Just when Eve thinks she will die--not from her injuries, but boredom--her mother gives her a special project: Create the perfect boy.    Using an amazingly detailed simulation that is designed to teach human genetics, Eve starts building a boy from the ground up: eyes, hair, muscles, even a brain, and potential personality traits. Eve is creating Adam. And he will be just perfect...won't he?

So Eve is your typical daughter of a multimillionaire mother who is never there and a father who was killed in a car wreck. Your typical unhappy rich girl. But then she gets in a car wreck and  everything changes.

A young man, Solo, as he calls himself, is sent by Evening's mother to take her out of the hospital and into her Biopharm. facility, where she is working on a miracle healing product.

Eve wakes up, and not being able to leave, due to her injuries, gets very bored with her wanderings through the facility. So in order to please her, her mother gives her a special project to work on creating the perfect human being, who she names Adam. But then things get complicated, and she finds out a few very disturbing secrets about her family, as well as which side Solo really is on.

Rating: 2 stars

To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. I expected this book to be where the girl would create the boy and together they would fight whatever bad guy needed to be taken down, while she finds out more about the person she created, blah, blah, blah. I would have been at least satisfied with that, but this was a complete disaster.

In the beginning of the book, Evening is thinking about some apple when she gets in the accident. She knew she should be focusing on the road, but she couldn't stop thinking about the apple. Now, this would have made more sense if the apple came in later in the story, but nope it was apparently just a very memorable apple. Another thing I hated about this book is, Adam doesn't even come to life until the end, which I was not expecting at all. Here Eve and Solo are developing this relationship, while Adam is still being created, there is no room for him to fit in to make a love triangle.

Onto the characters. I found Eve a very unlikable girl. She was stuck up, rich, and got everything she wanted and had a fit if she didn't get it. It gets worse with her almost instant swooning over Solo, and later her total melt down when Adam came to life. She didn't spend to much time thinking about personalities, it was all about looks for this girl which got really annoying when it came to romance and such, everything felt so empty.
 
Then Solo comes in. Everyone thinks he works for Terra (Eve's mother) but instead he works for some rebel company who doesn't like Terra and he's trying to get evidence that she's doing bad things, and he hit a jackpot. But as usual, his insta-feelings for Eve make him stay. (UGH!) Which is really stupid because they've only known each other for a few weeks, and he's been wanting to get Terra thrown in jail since his parents died. Solo himself is a very brash and unlikeable character with an over-macho reaction to everything. In the first couple of chapters, while Eve is still unconscious, he checks her out. Which wouldn't be that bad, except he thinks she's checking him out while she's unconscious.

The book, all in all, was awful. It had little to no action, poorly crafted romance, and an unsatisfying ending. The mystery was something you could guess at halfway through the book, the characters were oblivious despite obvious reasoning, and the only character I like was the cold hearted mom, because at least she knew where she stood with everything. It was one of those books where I looked to see how close I was to the ending because everything about it was just irritating me.

xxAvalon