Review: Excellent YA Sci-Fi Romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 24, 2013
"The Eve Genome" is a unique, exhilarating read, blending light science fiction with romance and action. Adriana is a twin, and her twin (Analiese) has had a rocky young adulthood--self-cutting and suicide have defined her life. Adriana holds herself responsible for her sister, and is doubly hurt and betrayed with Analiese betrays her and goes after (and wins) the boy Adriana has a crush on. Soon after, Analiese is involved in a car accident and dies--not from the crash itself, but from a violently negative reaction to a blood transfusion. It turns out that she and Adriana are special not just because they are twins, but because they have a unique blood type that links them back to the "mitochondrial Eve."When Adriana is invited to be part of a Genome study, she meets another set of twins--Kalan and Marcus--with the same blood type, and begins to help Kalan search for his birth mother. However, there is more to all of the twins that just a special blood type, and soon Kalan and Adriana are plunged into danger and self-discovery.The plot draws you into "The Eve Genome" quickly--at first, you're eager to find out how and why Adriana is different, and once she meets Kalan you are pulling both for Kalan to find his mother and for Adriana and Kalan's romance to succeed. The level of danger keeps the story tense and moving forward too. I would recommend this to readers who enjoy science fiction that isn't too heavy on the science, as well as readers who enjoy YA and romance (due to some treatment of mature themes, I wouldn't recommend it to readers under 14).