I'm back with an audiobook review. This is another one of the titles I finished a few months back and finally had time to sit down and put my thoughts on paper. Read on to find out what I thought of Eve and if it measured up to 'The Shack'!
Publisher: Howard Books | Simon & Schuster Audio
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Format: Audio MP3
Pages: Hardcover: 320 pages | Audio Length: Approx 9 hours
Narrator: Roger Mueller
Source: Sribd
Genre: Fiction, Christian Fiction
Review Date: March 30, 2016
Rating: 3 bookmarks
Synopsis: When a shipping container washes ashore on an island between our world and the next, John the Collector finds a young woman inside--broken, frozen, and barely alive. With the aid of Healers and Scholars, John oversees her recovery and soon discovers her genetic code connects her to every known human race. She is a girl of prophecy and no one can guess what her survival will mean...
No one but Eve, Mother of the Living, who calls her daughter and invites her to witness the truth about her story--indeed, the truth about us all.
Eve is a bold, unprecedented exploration of the Creation narrative, true to the original texts and centuries of scholarship, yet with breathtaking discoveries that challenge traditional misconceptions about who we are and how we're made. As The Shack awakened readers to a personal, non-religious understanding of God, Eve will free us from faulty interpretations that have corrupted human relationships since the Garden of Eden.
Eve opens a refreshing conversation about the equality of men and women within the context of our beginnings, helping us see each other as our Creator does--complete, unique, and not constrained to cultural rules or limitations.
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Format: Audio MP3
Pages: Hardcover: 320 pages | Audio Length: Approx 9 hours
Narrator: Roger Mueller
Source: Sribd
Genre: Fiction, Christian Fiction
Review Date: March 30, 2016
Rating: 3 bookmarks
Synopsis: When a shipping container washes ashore on an island between our world and the next, John the Collector finds a young woman inside--broken, frozen, and barely alive. With the aid of Healers and Scholars, John oversees her recovery and soon discovers her genetic code connects her to every known human race. She is a girl of prophecy and no one can guess what her survival will mean...
No one but Eve, Mother of the Living, who calls her daughter and invites her to witness the truth about her story--indeed, the truth about us all.
Eve is a bold, unprecedented exploration of the Creation narrative, true to the original texts and centuries of scholarship, yet with breathtaking discoveries that challenge traditional misconceptions about who we are and how we're made. As The Shack awakened readers to a personal, non-religious understanding of God, Eve will free us from faulty interpretations that have corrupted human relationships since the Garden of Eden.
Eve opens a refreshing conversation about the equality of men and women within the context of our beginnings, helping us see each other as our Creator does--complete, unique, and not constrained to cultural rules or limitations.
Eve is a pretty different take on Adam and Eve's story, it was entertaining if nothing else. After all, it is a work of fiction. It's essentially a retelling of the Creation story. This review will include several opposing opinions, but that's how I felt about it. Sometimes I really liked it, and other times I didn't. I tried to consider this book on it's own merits, but I found it very difficult to not compare it to 'The Shack'.
The main character, Lily, is one of the most aggravating characters that I've encountered in recent history. She's young, around 15 or so, and she's incredibly naive. She alone would not be able to hold this story up, but along with support of several of the other characters, John, Eve, and various Healers and Scholars, Lily ends up being tolerable. You'd think that a character in a situation as hers would grow and learn as she makes mistakes...yet it seems that she doesn't. In the characters defense, she has been through hell and back as a young child and now as a teen. In the end, Lily had a lot of healing to do, inside and out and her experiences during this story helped her to do so.
There were a lot of themes about honesty, learning to trust, self respect, and about how you feel on the inside effects what you think you look out on the outside. How negative and degrading thoughts can really influence you in a bad way. The story reinforced the importance of positive thoughts and self love. Overall the story is heavy and somewhat dark, which isn't necessarily a bad thing because it is fitting.
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The story takes places between heaven and earth and hell...it's really hard to explain. Ultimately, Eve had fantastical elements, similarly to 'The Shack', but unlike it, Eve felt more fantasy or paranormal, which contributed to the fact that it felt less spiritual despite the underlining Christian based themes of the plot.
I enjoyed the audiobook narrator and he added value to the story. I believe that I would have had a rougher go of getting through this title had I opted to read it instead. |
The ending of the story tied things up and I was glad that Lily got another chance at life, but also to explain away her otherworldly experience in a mundane way was a tad disappoint. I went back and forth with a 2 versus a 3 rating, but when it was all said and done, I did enjoy it. So for that matter, I went with the 3 rating. I also felt that the audiobook narration helped it to the 3 bookmark rating as well.
Eve lead to some interesting conversation during book club, but the consensus of the group was that many of us (including myself) missed the expected world changing feeling that "The Shack" inspired. I recommend this book for those that are interested Christian based fiction, but do not mind some fantasy like elements. If you are looking for 'The Shack' 2.0, I don't recommend it.
Happy Reading & Listening,
~Tamara
Eve lead to some interesting conversation during book club, but the consensus of the group was that many of us (including myself) missed the expected world changing feeling that "The Shack" inspired. I recommend this book for those that are interested Christian based fiction, but do not mind some fantasy like elements. If you are looking for 'The Shack' 2.0, I don't recommend it.
Happy Reading & Listening,
~Tamara
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