A white default is assumed.Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. Though Eve and Bram don’t rise above character archetypes, and the authors adopt a fairly rigid framework for gender roles and sexuality nearly devoid of queerness, there’s plenty here for fans of tales of humanity gone wrong. 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. The Brit Award-winning band has sold over 10 million records worldwide and Tom has also written songs for other artists including One Direction, Busted and 5SOS.Fifty years have passed since the birth of a girl on Earth-until Eve, that is. The Christmasaurus is currently being developed by The Greatest Showman director Michael Gracey into an animated, feature-length movie with original songs written by Tom.Īs well as his career as an author, by the age of 21, Tom had penned 10 UK number 1 singles and is the founding member of the band McFLY.
Tom's books have been translated into thirty-nine languages, and to date he has sold over 5 million copies of his books in the UK alone. Tom also writes the incredibly successful Who's in Your Book? picture-book series and is one half of the author duo behind the Dinosaur that Pooped picture-book series too, which has sold over 1.5 million copies.įor older readers, Tom co-authors the Eve of Man series with his wife Giovanna Fletcher. Since then, Tom has published several more chart-topping children's novels including The Christmasaurus and the Winter Witch, The Christmasaurus and the Naughty List, The Creakers and the instant number-one bestseller The Danger Gang. The Christmasaurus was the biggest debut middle-grade novel of 2016 and was shortlisted for a British Book Award.
Tom Fletcher is a number-one bestseller and one of the UK's most popular children's authors.
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