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The year is 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus—and the vaccine intended to protect against it—wiped out most of the earth’s population. The night before eighteen-year-old Eve’s graduation from her all-girls school she discovers what really happens to new graduates, and the horrifying... read more

Characters edit see section history

  • Eve: The main character, an eighteen-year-old girl who has run away from the only life she knows how to live.
  • Caleb: He helps Eve and Arden get to his camp. Eve falls in love with him.
  • Arden: A student at the same school as Eve who questions things instead of accepting everything blindly. She runs away from the school, and later meets up with Eve on the road once Eve has escaped.
  • Leif: The leader of the camp Caleb lives at.
  • Lark: A 13-year old runaway Arden and Eve meet while captured by the kings human hunter.
  • Pip: Eve's best friend, which she feels guilty about leaving behind at the School.
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  • “Even if the troops found me, even if I collapsed out in the desert, in the shadow of the great rocks, I had to move. I had to at least try”
    Eve
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First Sentence edit see section history

By the time the sun set over the fifty-foot perimeter wall, the School lawn was covered with twelfth-year students.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 3 in The Eve Trilogy. (standard series)

Followed by Once.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Anna Carey (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperTeen
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 4, 2011
ISBN: 978-0062048509
Page Count: 320

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