Eve and Adam

Grant, Michael and Katherine Applegate. Eve and Adam. 291 p. ISBN 978-0-312-58351-4.

This book starts with a bang, literally, as teenager Eve spots a different colored apple in the fruit stand and, being distracted, gets run over by one of San Francisco’s streetcar, getting her leg cut off and her arm badly broken. And that’s all in the first sentence!

Eve, her full name Evening, daughter of Terra Spiker, CEO and founder of Spiker Biopharmaceuticals, immediately becomes involved in a dark plot. Transferred over to her mother’s top medical facility, she meets Solo, who lives at Spiker, who nurses grievances against Terra, and has a plan to bring down her empire. Eve, who is recuperating rather quickly, is tasked by her mother to develop the perfect male teenager, code-named Adam, by using intuitive software, and she quickly becomes engrossed in the task.

With Solo’s assistance and the help of her best friend Aislyn, Eve suddenly realizes that her leg, which had been amputated during the accident and put back in surgery, has healed so completely in four days that she can now walk and run on it and cannot even see any physical evidence of her accident. What has been done to her to enhance her healing abilities? More worrying, what else is her mother and her scientists up to? Building Adam, that’s just a software program … or is it?

Read Eve and Adam and find out what happens when technology and unethical behavior combine with greed to create a powerful motivator to do evil, and see how Eve handles this major change in her life. If you liked this book, you will enjoy Every Other Day.