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Eva
- Mass Market Paperback
- Author: Peter Dickinson
- Publisher: Laurel Leaf
- Release Date: October 1990
- Reading Level: Young Adult
- ISBN-10: 0440207665
- ISBN-13: 9780440207665
- List Price: $6.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryThe picnic on the beach is Eva's last memory. As she lies in the hospital bed while her mother explains about the accident and the coma, Eva senses there is something they are not telling her--a price she must pay to be alive.20,000 print. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Horrible. Don't waste your time.
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I'm 14 years old and now a freshman in high school. I read this book last year, in eighth grade for a book report. I needed to read a science fiction book. The librarians in my school suggested this one but I have no idea why because it is so bad. By the time I understood what was going on in the book, it was to late to change books for the book report so I had to complete the book for the report. I hated it so much. This book is a mess. It doesn't make any sense. The story is about a thirteen year old girl, named Eva, that was in a coma because of a car crash. The only way she can survive is to have her brain transfered to a chimp's body. The author never came out and said it though. You had to infer it. It took me a long time to figure out that she was a chimp. I was completely lost though. It also makes no sense because that could never happen. The father also just happens to be a chimp expert and works with chimps. Eva just happen to grow up with chimps before the accident. I don't like this at all. The ending is atrocious. She goes to an island and lives with the other apes. I mean come on! You think she'd be changed back to a human and return to her normal life or something. I feel bad for the girl having to live with apes because she was in a coma. I also feel bad for whoever took the time to read this book. I'm not usually one to criticize a book. I usually like all the books I read or don't mind them. This one was so bad I have to criticize it. Whenever anyone asks me about bad books, I automatically say, "Eva." I'm not sure, maybe if you're older, maybe you'd understand it. Anyone my age, and whenever I talk about it to people my age, they make a face like that's weird, and they say they'd never want to read it. Just a heads up.
Don't waste your time.
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I have read a lot of books in my lifetime but I still mark this one as one of the worst I have ever read. The plot was far fetched to the point of absurdity (yes, I understand that it is science fiction -thats what drew me in- but even there the lack of detail doesn't give it a leg to stand on) and it was poorly written (I read it in 6th or 7th grade and even as a child I was unimpressed). One of two books I've ever left unfinished; I just couldn't sit through it any longer.
not good
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this book was hard to understand and difficult to read. there were not enough details, and it was hard to visualize.
Still me, Yet not me
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My opinion of this book is that it's a good book. It was a good, adventurous journey of a girl struggling to make the best of her new life and body. I would recommend this book to more of the science fiction book people. I think that girls might like this book better than boys because they might be able to relate to it better. I really liked how in the book Eva became a leader to all the chimps, while when she was human she was a follower. Overall it was a really great book and I would defiantly recommend it.
Eva
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This book is about a 13 year old girl, Eva, who gets in a terrible car accident on her way back from her beach picnic with her family. When they go to the hospital, Eva is so badly damaged that the only way to save her is to do a surgery only tested on flatworms. When Eva wakes up in the hospital, she can't move and can only watch the shaper, a futuristic TV, or look out the window with a mirror she has in her room. She has many visits from her family but mainly she is sleeping and isolated. Eva knows that the scientists are hiding something from her and what that is leads to a world of adventure. It changes her views incredibly about the human race. Instead of with humans, she makes friends with others of her own species. Her Mom can't accept it. Can Eva even accept his incredible change, when reporters follow her everywhere and she watches herself on the shaper?
This author doesn't try to fit lots of things on each page. He writes kind of slowly so if you're looking for an exhilarating adventure this is not for you. He likes to focus more on the relationships and the feelings of Eva, instead of the really exciting, exhilarating parts. I like this style of writing and I really like this book.
I liked this book because it focused a lot on animals and how they look at humans and each other. It also focused a lot on the power in groups of animals and what they do to each other for power. That was really interesting and made me realize how complicated these animals lives and relationships are. I loved this book.
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