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    Eve
    Eve
    Eve
    Audiobook9 hours

    Eve

    Written by Wm. Paul Young

    Narrated by Roger Mueller

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From the author of the twenty-five-million-copy bestseller The Shack comes a captivating new novel destined to be one of the most talked-about books of the decade.

    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 beliefs about who we are and how we’re made. 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 by cultural rules or limitations.

    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 that her genetic code connects her to every known race. No one would 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 own story—indeed, the truth about us all.

    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.

    Thoroughly researched and exquisitely written, Eve is a masterpiece that will inspire readers for generations to come.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateSep 15, 2015
    ISBN9781442385849
    Eve
    Author

    Wm. Paul Young

    William Paul Young was born in Canada and raised among a Stone Age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of former New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult and now enjoys the “wastefulness of grace” with his family in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of Lies We Believe About God and the New York Times bestsellers The Shack, Cross Roads, and Eve.

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    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be an amazing and thought-provoking work. The book challenges the reader's perspective on the Garden of Eden story and leaves them wanting to re-read the Bible. The pace, characters, and language are all new and interesting. It makes the reader wonder about heaven, God, and the angels. The author's writing style is easy to understand and the book is a great read for anyone with questions about God. Overall, this book is an amazing work that leaves a lasting impact on the reader.

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    • 5/5
      this author never ceases to amaze me. great read! I love the way he writes and makes it easy for readers to actually understand.

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    • 5/5
      Eve was an absolute experience filled with heart healing and restoration. As Paul Young concluded in his remarks, it IS an invitation to a deeper understanding and relationship with God as I navigated the themes explored in this book. Mr. Roger, the narrator, beautifully projected each character, setting, and feeling. I thoroughly enjoyed Eve. I anticipate reading it again in another moment in time.
    • 5/5
      Everyone with questions about God and why He allows what He allows should read this book
    • 5/5
      Just wow. My perspective on the garden of eden story and the beginning has definitely been challenged. I devoured this book in 2 days. The wonder it paints in your mind is indescribable. Especially the creation of Adam and Eve, I don’t even know what to think other than I need to go re read the bible!! The pace, the characters, the narrator/ reader of the audio? The language, the everything was so new and interesting and perfect. Makes me wonder just how heaven and God and the angels will be like - makes me miss and long for heaven and God so much. I have a lot of thinking to do and lots to ask God about re the ideas this book introduced. Amazing work for all who worked on it. May God continue to increase the work of your hands and multiply your blessings continuously!!!

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    • 2/5
      Possible spoilers to follow. Young is an engaging writer and this is his fictional attempt to cast the blame of the Fall onto Adam and spare Eve from guilt in the fruit incident. In so going he subordinates Eve to Adam even before the Fall although I don't think he realises what he's doing. Adam and Eve are together humanity but Young portrays Adam as the one who turned and Eve as an innocent victim who later turns from God and chooses to leave the garden. In empowering Eve in this story he actually dis-empowers women. The problem with this kind of fiction is that some, including Young I suppose, will believe that the theology behind it is true. A lot of reading into Genesis is required for this story and I think Young ventures where angels would fear to tread.
    • 1/5
      Eve is a garbled mess. Young takes elements of sci-fi mixed with an acutely bizarre reimagining of the creation story of Genesis. I will concede that there is a substantial point in the book: an individual has value and there is an intense level of harm in the patriarchal systems of violence in society and the lies an individual tells themselves; but, when you wrap up a good message with cliche and trite prose, rudimentary world-building, and unrealistic dialogue this book's OVERT thesis is an offensive and facile engagement with a sacred story in the Christian tradition.
    • 1/5
      I was loaned this book by a friend who thought I would enjoy it. Unfortunately, I simply could not. It was quite difficult to follow at times, and went against my beliefs as a Christian and what the Scripture teaches us.Eve is about a young girl named Lilly, who is found nearly dead in a shipping container along a beach, filled with the bodies of dead young girls. We're never given a complete explanation of what happened to her, you simply assume by the hints presented that she was used in a prostitution ring.Kept in a suspended state while healing, Lilly dreams and sees visions. One is of Eve. Yes, that Eve. Only she wasn't really seeing visions, but mentally transported. Lilly becomes a "Watcher", an observer. She observes the moment of creation. Of the earth. Of Adam. And eventually of Eve.Somehow she is sent back and forth through the NOW to the THEN. Eventually she finds out the Creator calls her Lillith. Yeah, you get it. THAT Lillith.There are spins on the variation of the story that make absolutely no sense. I was bored to tears. Literally.I won't give away any more of the plot. YOU might actually enjoy it. Just know it's not the traditional Adam/Eve/Lillith story we've all heard before. This has twists and turns, mountains and caverns that can get you lost if you don't pay attention.I read the whole book, as an obligation to a friend who really enjoyed it, and thought I would as well. But unless you're into alternate creationism stories, I don't recommend it.
    • 2/5
      Thank you to goodreads and the publisher for a free copy of Eve.

      I feel like I should preface this review by saying that I've never read The Shack, nor am I a Christian. So, I'm probably not the typical audience for this book. But hey, a retelling of the Garden of Eden? It sounded intriguing.

      It was intriguing, I'll give it that. It definitely says something if you can take something as well-known as Adam and Eve, use it as the basis for a story, and still keep the plot interesting enough and leave the readers guessing and where it's going next.

      And the world it was set in was interesting (if confusing). The juxtaposition of things like Healers and Menders with refrigeration units and neurotoxins was unexpected. If Young had fleshed out this world a little more, it could have been an intriguing setting for a dystopian or maybe urban fantasy novel.

      But this isn't a dystopian or urban fantasy novel. It's firmly Christian fiction, and heavy-handed Christian fiction, at that. The characters don't have much depth, and they often feel more like concepts than anything else. The dialogue fell flat (and don't even get me started on the mocking use of "like" which, while taking up less than a page, is one of my pet peeves. If you're going to write a book about redemption and healing for a young girl, then... maybe don't mock how we speak?).

      And... I hesitate to say this, because there are unfortunately people out there who have a similar backstory to Lilly. But that whole thing just seemed gratuitous and like it came out of nowhere. It felt like it was there for shock value or to prove a point. And I wish it had been handled better/differently.

      The concept and the potential for the setting are why I'm giving this two stars. Everything else just put me off.
    • 5/5
      Sole survivor Lilly Fields, barely alive in a shipping container, washes ashore on a mysterious island and is found by John the Collector. Overseeing her recovery, John soon discovers she is a girl of prophecy, although no one knows what her survival will mean.Eve, Mother of the Living, invites her to learn the truth; thus, Lilly witnesses the Creation, meets Adam and Eve, and witnesses the temptations by the Serpent.In a sweeping retelling of the Creation story, William Paul Young offers readers a stunning, emotional look at Creation and, while the account is based on scripture, the fictionalized story offers readers much food for thought regarding love, choices, acceptance, and trust. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      This is yet another beautifully crafted story by Wm. Paul Young, bestselling author of "The Shack". Young provides a fresh retelling of the story of Creation through the eyes and senses of a very much broken teenage soul who has been given the role of "Witness". As any teenager would, our protagonist, Lilly, grapples with understanding self-worth, love, darkness and the possibility of having a personal relationship with God, let alone with others around her. We see Creation's story unfold through Lilly's dreams (or was she truly transported back in time to the "Beginnings" and actually observing the cataclysmic origin of earth and our species?) Through Lilly's experience we are led to understand how God sees us...yet still loves us even when we ourselves cannot. This is a thoughtful, albeit fictional, retelling of Creation's story by a most gifted author. Well done!I am grateful to Goodreads First Reads, author Wm Paul Young and Simon and Howard Books for having provided a free copy of his book. Their generosity did not, however, influence this review - the words of which are mine alone.Synopsis (from book's back cover):From the author of the 25-million copy bestseller The Shack comes a captivating new novel destined to be one of the most important and talked-about books of the decade.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.Thoroughly researched and exquisitely written, Eve is a masterpiece that will inspire readers for generations to come.
    • 5/5
      "Eve" is the third book I have read by Wm. Paul Young. He has an intriguing way of looking at people's relationships with God and how faith and belief fit into the picture. The first book of Young's I read was "The Shack" and the second was "Crossroads." I was pulled into Young's narrative in the "Shack" from the first page and wanted to read more. "Crossroads" did not captivate me as it was very dark in many places. I was not certain I wanted to read anything more by Young. Then I picked up "Eve" in my train station's bookstore. Once again, from the first page I was captivated - wondering what twists and turns would present themselves. I was not disappointed. I rejoiced with the characters and how they related to each other. I sorrowed with the characters and at the end of novel, I was uplifted in my own spirit. This book is a "must read" in this reviewer's opinion. I am anxious to read another of his books.
    • 5/5
      Title: EveAuthor: William Paul YoungPages: 320Year: 2015Publisher: Howard BooksMy rating is 5+ stars.When I started the novel, I wasn’t sure what the purpose of the novel was nor what direction the author would lead readers. The novel to me is reminiscent of C. S. Lewis’ work Chronicles of Narnia with a touch of mystery, biblical people and ending with a finish that just steals the heart of the reader!I don’t know about other people, but I read a lot of books in a year. Most of them are enjoyable to read and then I share them with a girlfriend. Eve is like a cinematic movie that calls to reader’s heart and imagination that defies description. There is a touch of science fiction along with such creativity when describing scenes or the numerous characters. I couldn’t put the novel down for long because I wanted to not just read the whole novel, but also experience the spiritual side that is a huge part of the work.Not many authors can engage the reader from page one until the end, but God certainly gifted this author to share an amazingly well-crafted novel. If you know people who don’t want to read the Bible or aren’t open to spiritual discussions, this is a novel they just might find themselves enjoying. Some of the characters in the story aren’t real, but no less captivating. I thought I even knew who the evil character was in the book, but I didn’t and towards the end of the book it became apparent there was more depth to the story than I thought.Eve brings to the forefront the undying love of God for people, all people. There is also the telling of the many choices we must make throughout our lives to draw near to God or walk away. Yet God never has ceased to call to us, woo us or open His heart to us. All we do is choose Him above all the other things we think will satisfy, but don’t even come close. At the end of our lives, we will simply leave behind a broken world and empty shell to enter into the very Presence that we’ll never want to leave, ever!Read Eve and share it with those to whom God leads you. You will probably be surprised by the reactions of anyone with whom you share the novel. Have a ball reading and entering a tale that will engage every part of your being. You won’t soon forget this book!Disclosure of Material Connection: I received one or more of the products or services mentioned above for free in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255. “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
    • 3/5
      I was given a digital copy of Eve by Wm. Paul Young by the publisher, Simon & Schuster, via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. Thank you.I was confused for much of the first half of this novel. I stuck with it and things definitely got better as the book progressed.For me, this book reads almost like a fantasy since it's another idea on the Earth's beginning and the creation of Adam and Eve as opposed to the Biblical teachings. God is referred to by many reverent names that I had not heard before and it took me until the middle of the book to sort them out. I had trouble with God being portrayed as just another loving human being.The protagonist, Lilly, appealed to me so I kept routing for her. There are some other interesting characters and they were developed enough to keep me wanting to continue reading.I do not highly recommend this book; however, others might get more out of it than I did.