Eve
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"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."--
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I love sci-fi. I love sci-fi because I think it exposes the truths about humanity. Sci-fi shows that even in extraordinary and different circumstances and settings, the emotions and feelings are still as they are in our reality today. That being said, I love sci-fi and theology mixed together because it shows the truths and reality of Jesus, the Bible, and God in a spectacular setting...yet, they are still truths in our reality.
For that reason, I really liked the premise of this book. I liked the truths about Jesus and the character of God shown through the main character being able to experience Creation. I liked the tempting of the devil personified into a character of the book, and the almost seduction that occurs. I also really liked the Main Characters growth, her history, and people caring about her and loving her helped her overcome some of it. That was cool and I liked her development.
However, parts of the book definitely dragged on, and I found the Lilith and “It's really all Adam's fault in the end” (along with the random addition of Adam's Fall really starting way earlier) to be a little too far from the Creation story in the Bible and too many inferences were made.
