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Eve
Eve
A young girl, Eve, raised in a virtual reality embarks on a deadly cross-country quest to save her father… and our dying planet.
WHAT WORLD HAVE WE LEFT OUR CHILDREN?
When the ice caps melted, most of humanity was lost to the hidden disease that was released. Now, a mysterious girl named Eve has awoken in secret and must deal with a world that’s nothing like the virtual reality she was raised in.
In order to save her father and accompanied only by Wexler, her robotic caretaker and protector sheathed in her favorite teddy bear, Eve must embark on a deadly quest across the country. Along the way, she will have to contend not only with the threats of a very real world that await her, but the lies we tell our children in the name of protecting them.
In the spirit of his critically acclaimed and award winning novel Changling, novelist Victor LaValle (The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle’s Destroyer) and illustrator Jo Mi-Gyeong (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) deliver a powerful dystopian adventure about the world we leave behind… and the price that must be paid to restore life to a dying planet.
Collects Eve #1-5.
WHAT WORLD HAVE WE LEFT OUR CHILDREN?
When the ice caps melted, most of humanity was lost to the hidden disease that was released. Now, a mysterious girl named Eve has awoken in secret and must deal with a world that’s nothing like the virtual reality she was raised in.
In order to save her father and accompanied only by Wexler, her robotic caretaker and protector sheathed in her favorite teddy bear, Eve must embark on a deadly quest across the country. Along the way, she will have to contend not only with the threats of a very real world that await her, but the lies we tell our children in the name of protecting them.
In the spirit of his critically acclaimed and award winning novel Changling, novelist Victor LaValle (The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle’s Destroyer) and illustrator Jo Mi-Gyeong (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) deliver a powerful dystopian adventure about the world we leave behind… and the price that must be paid to restore life to a dying planet.
Collects Eve #1-5.
132 pages, Paperback
First published March 22, 2022
About the author
Victor LaValle
143 books3,685 followersVictor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus, four novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling and two novellas, Lucretia and the Kroons and The Ballad of Black Tom. He is also the creator and writer of a comic book Victor LaValle's DESTROYER.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Whiting Writers' Award, a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shirley Jackson Award, an American Book Award, and the key to Southeast Queens.
He was raised in Queens, New York. He now lives in Washington Heights with his wife and kids. He teaches at Columbia University.
He can be kind of hard to reach, but he still loves you.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Whiting Writers' Award, a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shirley Jackson Award, an American Book Award, and the key to Southeast Queens.
He was raised in Queens, New York. He now lives in Washington Heights with his wife and kids. He teaches at Columbia University.
He can be kind of hard to reach, but he still loves you.
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May 9, 2022
An excellent read. Eve has turned 11 and just found out she was raised in a virtual environment. In reality, the seas have risen and most of humanity has died. But her father has a plan, genetically created mangroves to filter the poisoned air. Now Eve must travel to the seed vault and distribute the seeds like a modern day Johnny Appleseed while chased by mutants and machines.
LaValle has packed this story with so much heart. I loved every minute of it. My only complaint is that it wasn't longer.
LaValle has packed this story with so much heart. I loved every minute of it. My only complaint is that it wasn't longer.
April 6, 2022
3.25 stars. This story follows the main character Eve. She was living in a virtual reality where she was learning things she was going to need to know to complete her mission once she was awakened into the real world. The ice on earth has melted and released a deadly virus. Her father had laid out a course of action for her to complete in order to save the world by killing off this virus. Pretty cool concept that kind of just stayed in a simple, easy and comfortable lane and never really stretched its wings to be really good. But at least it ended up being decent and had some cool artwork.
July 29, 2022
A serendipitous find at the library on the enticing new acquisitions shelf, glad to have read it and look forward to reading more of Victor Lavalle’s work. Loved Jo Mi-Gyeong and Brittany Peer’s artwork.
An interesting companion read to this which I would highly recommend is Peter Dickinson’s excellent children’s novel ‘Eva’, whose protagonist is thirteen years old.
An interesting companion read to this which I would highly recommend is Peter Dickinson’s excellent children’s novel ‘Eva’, whose protagonist is thirteen years old.
February 17, 2022
There are books with kid protagonists and then there are books for kids with kids protagonists. This one is definitely of the latter variety, but because our library didn’t categorize it as such and because I’m a fan of the author, I checked it out anyway.
LaValle tends to write kids in his comic book ventures, but The Destroyer was definitely targeted for more mature audiences.
This is more along the lines of an author contemplating the future of his offspring, gaining awareness of climate crisis through his wife’s work, and wanting to be a black author who writes something that doesn’t have to do with race for a change. This isn’t speculation, this is literally from the two essays he provides with the book.
So, that’s the intent.
The content is…an eleven-year-old girl wakes up alone with nothing but a funky teddy bear for company and comes to realize that the future of the Earth depends on her. The Earth has gone post-apocalyptic with only the kids surviving (inexplicably) and the girl must plant special trees to save it all. A lot of responsibility, for sure. But she’s. scrappy kid and she’s been training for this her entire life, in a way. So, she sets off on an adventure. That’s the story.
It’s pretty good as far as these things go - although it doesn’t quite hold up to an intellectual scrutiny of an adult reader, it’ll probably do fine for kids. The art is fun. The bear is the most fun. Quick read, too.
LaValle tends to write kids in his comic book ventures, but The Destroyer was definitely targeted for more mature audiences.
This is more along the lines of an author contemplating the future of his offspring, gaining awareness of climate crisis through his wife’s work, and wanting to be a black author who writes something that doesn’t have to do with race for a change. This isn’t speculation, this is literally from the two essays he provides with the book.
So, that’s the intent.
The content is…an eleven-year-old girl wakes up alone with nothing but a funky teddy bear for company and comes to realize that the future of the Earth depends on her. The Earth has gone post-apocalyptic with only the kids surviving (inexplicably) and the girl must plant special trees to save it all. A lot of responsibility, for sure. But she’s. scrappy kid and she’s been training for this her entire life, in a way. So, she sets off on an adventure. That’s the story.
It’s pretty good as far as these things go - although it doesn’t quite hold up to an intellectual scrutiny of an adult reader, it’ll probably do fine for kids. The art is fun. The bear is the most fun. Quick read, too.
February 28, 2023
3.5 stars
This is one of those comics that has a real world message that's not muddled at all by the medium or use of metaphor. Even follows an 11 year old girl, Eve, who wakes from years in a tank to find that the world she'd believed in has fallen apart. Most of the earth has been flooded and all remaining humans were infected by a virus that turned them into hungry monsters. Eve, aided by a Teddy Bear android Wexler, sets sail to find a vault of resources to heal the world.
The art is gorgeous! Eve's features were drawn so well and the colors really expanded the dystopian world. As a character, Eve is rather brave for an 11 year old and her humanity is evident in how she speaks to Wexler about saving what few humans are left in the world.
The message is clear: human apathy about the environmental crisis has made it so that earth's children inherited a dying planet. Most of the humans have all gone and those that are left are no help to the children. The virus takes over once an adult becomes infected. So, it's left to the children to save the planet.
I appreciate Lavalle's goal and I love that the protagonist was a young Black girl. I love that he also told the story in a way that we still get to see Eve's family in some ways. I will definitely check out Destroyer.
This is one of those comics that has a real world message that's not muddled at all by the medium or use of metaphor. Even follows an 11 year old girl, Eve, who wakes from years in a tank to find that the world she'd believed in has fallen apart. Most of the earth has been flooded and all remaining humans were infected by a virus that turned them into hungry monsters. Eve, aided by a Teddy Bear android Wexler, sets sail to find a vault of resources to heal the world.
The art is gorgeous! Eve's features were drawn so well and the colors really expanded the dystopian world. As a character, Eve is rather brave for an 11 year old and her humanity is evident in how she speaks to Wexler about saving what few humans are left in the world.
The message is clear: human apathy about the environmental crisis has made it so that earth's children inherited a dying planet. Most of the humans have all gone and those that are left are no help to the children. The virus takes over once an adult becomes infected. So, it's left to the children to save the planet.
I appreciate Lavalle's goal and I love that the protagonist was a young Black girl. I love that he also told the story in a way that we still get to see Eve's family in some ways. I will definitely check out Destroyer.
January 13, 2026
Eve the graphic novel was vey good! I loved the art, but I wished there was slightly more worldbuilding, and more page-time for the family.
February 13, 2024
Love it!
March 3, 2022
There's an awful lot of heart squeezed into the five pages of this post-apocalyptic/dystopian fairytale. It's detailed world building and likeable characterization lead to a wonderful atmosphere of heartfelt adventure and makes for an incredibly cinematic read.
It's poignant undertones of environmental change act as a stark warning for our own future making this all the more relevant and relatable.
That said, I did feel that this flew by incredibly quickly but I never felt that it was rushed or clunky, which leaves me personally hoping we get more from this series in the near future!
Overall, this was a fantastic little read - quick, easy and poignant. It's Incredibly cinematic to the extend that it becomes apparent very quickly that this would make a phenomenal TV series. This isn't a book that fools around - it came to do one thing - tell a great heartfelt story... and that it does!
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My score: 8/10
Goodreads: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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It's poignant undertones of environmental change act as a stark warning for our own future making this all the more relevant and relatable.
That said, I did feel that this flew by incredibly quickly but I never felt that it was rushed or clunky, which leaves me personally hoping we get more from this series in the near future!
Overall, this was a fantastic little read - quick, easy and poignant. It's Incredibly cinematic to the extend that it becomes apparent very quickly that this would make a phenomenal TV series. This isn't a book that fools around - it came to do one thing - tell a great heartfelt story... and that it does!
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My score: 8/10
Goodreads: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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November 15, 2023
I kept seeing this cover pop up and I just had to check it out! This was an exciting little short dystopian/SF graphic novel that follows a young girl's journey to save the planet. I really enjoyed the story i just felt like it needed to be longer. There were also a few spots that felt a bit disjointed, but overall it was a fun quick read. 10 out of 10 stars for the artist and colorist, absolutely beautiful!
May 22, 2022
It flirts the line between a children's and a young adult series. But it is Hella timely and hopeful.
January 15, 2022
Victor Lavalle's "Eve" is an exciting and charming YA post apocalyptic adventure romp. The title character is a brave and adventurous young Black women, who is charged with saving the planet after a zombie apocalypse and total environmental collapse. This is a fun read, with a relatable protagonist that never feels preachy or stilted. Additionally, the killer robot teddy bear is a nice touch. Definitely recommended.
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October 24, 2023
Another strong graphic novel from LaValle, featuring the work of Mi-Gyeong and Peer as well. Part of coming-of-age, part apocalyptic climate sci-fi, this team packs a lot into the dark, heartfelt, and hopeful story of Eve as she explores a broken world and searches for hope in the face of insurmountable odds.
April 7, 2023
For being a miniseries, this book contained a lot of worldbuilding. I would have been happy with a few more issues to round out some emotional beats and the implied physical travel, but as-is, this book is a quick read with efficient storytelling. I like how the foreshadowing and backstory wrap back around to be relevent in the end. I also like how Eve saves herself 😉.
November 8, 2024
This was an interesting ecological take on both Zombies and ecological collapse/science/pollution. I liked the villains, and was even surprised by the twist in the villain (mostly cause I didn't think it would be that type of book). Great job.
August 10, 2022
Very interesting look at a global devastation possiblity. Was thoroughly intrigued.
October 17, 2022
I really enjoyed this book. It’s a dystopian future story with heart.
January 30, 2023
3.5/5 Stars
January 30, 2024
Excellent. Dynamic plot and characters. Full of heart.
August 18, 2022
That was super fun! Interesting post-apocalyptic world, beautiful art.
Read it for 2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge - book with palindromic title prompt.
Read it for 2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge - book with palindromic title prompt.
March 11, 2022
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April 9, 2022
In a post-apocalyptic setting, an 11-year-old girl is sent on a mission by her father to find a seed vault to help save the world. Accompanied by an android teddy bear, Eve travels across the country, encountering zombie-like people and other obstacles.
I enjoyed this overall. The art was pretty good. I liked Eve and the android. The setup was interesting. But there were some logic flaws. And Eve was mostly just carrying out a quest set up by her parents, rather than contributing something unique unto herself.
I enjoyed this overall. The art was pretty good. I liked Eve and the android. The setup was interesting. But there were some logic flaws. And Eve was mostly just carrying out a quest set up by her parents, rather than contributing something unique unto herself.
June 16, 2023
Content Note: deals with the deaths of parents, murder, and the climate crisis; also contains mentions of deliberate calorie restrictions to impact the onset of puberty
Eve is a scifi story with a tinge of horror and a heaping of hope mixed in about a future in which a young girl fights to restore humanity amidst a world altered by the climate crisis.
What Worked for Me:
✦ The art and coloring in this are so wonderfully vivid and full of movement! It really flows well with the story, enhancing its strengths and making the occasional lull in the text still interesting to look at.
✦ This story is genuinely so wonderful and heartbreaking at once. It was innovative and somehow familiar at the same time, which is an impressive feat.
✦ The characters’ relationships all felt very real and nuanced to me, which made the emotional moments all the more impactful.
✦ I really enjoyed Wexler’s dry wit throughout the book.
✦ The prescience of Victor LaValle’s writing about people refuting the climate crisis as they drowned and about the reluctance to prepare ahead of time for a pandemic until after three of them is just– *chef’s kiss*
Spoilers follow!
✦ The character designs were really great; while I would have appreciated some fat and disabled characters in the world that remains, I thought that
What Didn't Work for Me:
✦ I always struggle with comic books that use a lot of heavy black inking. It’s difficult for my brain to process these kinds of visuals as I read.
✦ I found the lettering to be a bit cramped and small, making it difficult to read at times. I would have appreciated a slightly larger approach with more breathing room in the leading.
✦ I think, as with a lot of comics that start out as single issues, some scenes felt a bit rushed and could have benefitted from a little slowing down to let the emotional impact really sit with us.
✦ While I appreciated the tying in of folklore with Osiris and Horus and Set, my attention started to wander a bit with these moments. I’ve always struggled with keeping mythology organized in an understandable way in my mind (which is also why I don’t do well with long running series like Batman!), so this was a struggle for me, but I appreciate the way it enhanced the story and think that a lot of people will appreciate its inclusion!
Overall
I give Eve TP 5 out of 5 speech bubbles: this was an amazing book, and I want everyone to read it right now so we can talk about it!
This book really carries so much nuance and finesse with its story and its art, and I definitely recommend checking it out for yourself– especially with the sequel out in single issues now and in TP in August! Its timing is also very much relevant to multiple ongoing issues in our lives, and LaValle’s combining of these subjects is appreciated.
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Target
The sequel, Eve: Children of the Moon, is already available in single issues now, and the Eve: Children of the Moon TP*, collecting issues 1-5 comes out on August 1, 2023!
*New to comic book terms like TP? Check out my page on Comic Book Terms and Definitions!
Read This Next
If you liked this, check out Artie and the Wolf Moon, I Walk With Monsters: The Complete Series, The Low, Low Woods (SA warning), and The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
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Eve is a scifi story with a tinge of horror and a heaping of hope mixed in about a future in which a young girl fights to restore humanity amidst a world altered by the climate crisis.
What Worked for Me:
✦ The art and coloring in this are so wonderfully vivid and full of movement! It really flows well with the story, enhancing its strengths and making the occasional lull in the text still interesting to look at.
✦ This story is genuinely so wonderful and heartbreaking at once. It was innovative and somehow familiar at the same time, which is an impressive feat.
✦ The characters’ relationships all felt very real and nuanced to me, which made the emotional moments all the more impactful.
✦ I really enjoyed Wexler’s dry wit throughout the book.
✦ The prescience of Victor LaValle’s writing about people refuting the climate crisis as they drowned and about the reluctance to prepare ahead of time for a pandemic until after three of them is just– *chef’s kiss*
Spoilers follow!
✦ The character designs were really great; while I would have appreciated some fat and disabled characters in the world that remains, I thought that
What Didn't Work for Me:
✦ I always struggle with comic books that use a lot of heavy black inking. It’s difficult for my brain to process these kinds of visuals as I read.
✦ I found the lettering to be a bit cramped and small, making it difficult to read at times. I would have appreciated a slightly larger approach with more breathing room in the leading.
✦ I think, as with a lot of comics that start out as single issues, some scenes felt a bit rushed and could have benefitted from a little slowing down to let the emotional impact really sit with us.
✦ While I appreciated the tying in of folklore with Osiris and Horus and Set, my attention started to wander a bit with these moments. I’ve always struggled with keeping mythology organized in an understandable way in my mind (which is also why I don’t do well with long running series like Batman!), so this was a struggle for me, but I appreciate the way it enhanced the story and think that a lot of people will appreciate its inclusion!
Overall
I give Eve TP 5 out of 5 speech bubbles: this was an amazing book, and I want everyone to read it right now so we can talk about it!
This book really carries so much nuance and finesse with its story and its art, and I definitely recommend checking it out for yourself– especially with the sequel out in single issues now and in TP in August! Its timing is also very much relevant to multiple ongoing issues in our lives, and LaValle’s combining of these subjects is appreciated.
How to Read It
Interested in checking it out for yourself? Here are a few ways you can get your hands on a copy!
Local Options
Your Local Library!
Your Local Comic Book Shop!
Your Local Book Store!
Small + Indie Options
Loyalty Bookstores
Forbidden Planet
Midtown Comics
Big + Boxy Options
Barnes & Noble
Books a Million
Target
The sequel, Eve: Children of the Moon, is already available in single issues now, and the Eve: Children of the Moon TP*, collecting issues 1-5 comes out on August 1, 2023!
*New to comic book terms like TP? Check out my page on Comic Book Terms and Definitions!
Read This Next
If you liked this, check out Artie and the Wolf Moon, I Walk With Monsters: The Complete Series, The Low, Low Woods (SA warning), and The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
If you enjoyed this review, I have a monthly comic review series called More Comics Please! on my website. This title was featured in Issue #2 with interior page excerpts and additional information not shared here on Goodreads, as well as digital comics that don't qualify for Goodreads' library. You can sign up to receive them in your inbox by subscribing to my newsletter Into the Bramble.
December 28, 2022
Love the story but I was confused for a lot of it (unnecessarily too I think)
Pop Sugar’s Advanced 2022 Reading Challenge - A book with a palindromic title
Pop Sugar’s Advanced 2022 Reading Challenge - A book with a palindromic title
April 3, 2022
There's a good chance I wasn't in the mood for this, but there also has to be a decent chance that it was mildly ridiculous to include every single apocalyptic trope in one short volume.
June 23, 2025
Very interesting graphic novel! I enjoyed it a lot, slightly reminding me of the game ‘submerged’ except it involves AI here. Recommend it to anyone who likes post apocalyptic stories.
January 31, 2025
3.5 stars
Stunning stunning illustration and colour.
Stunning stunning illustration and colour.
April 13, 2025
Lots of intriguing cli-fi concepts arranged oddly.
I picked up Eve because of the gorgeous cover. Mi-Gyeong's artwork and Peer's colouring remained very pleasing on the eye throughout the book but LaValle's storytelling wasn't quite so constant.
The plot focuses on Eve, a young girl who has woken up in a world after the sea levels have drastically risen and a virus has been thawed and released which turns adults into zombie-like scavengers. Her only constant companion is Wexler, an AI programmed by her father and implanted into the body of her favourite teddy bear. Together they must instigate a plan to stimulate growth of a particular plant to help restore the ecosystem and finally reconnect with Eve's father. However the scavengers come and surprising threats reveal themselves.
While not wishing to go into spoilers, I must stress that I liked the sci-fi elements of this story. Eve's and Wexler's origins are fascinating, as are the details of their plan to save the Earth. What bothered me was the way that LaValle revealed details. Big ideas are introduced halfway through the story when really they deserved their own volume to properly unpack. Instead it felt like we were rushing through biological marvels without sufficiently addressing their sociological and psychological implications.
World-building seemed severely cut back, possibly due to a limited run of issues. I would have certainly appreciated more connective tissue between plot beats and for Eve to have spent more time with other characters beside Wexler. No matter how it's justified in the story, the dialogues she holds with herself always struck me as clunky.
In short, I wish LaValle had paced himself a bit more with this book. Bulk out chapters one to three, allowing side characters more time to shine and using the midway twists as a cliffhanger between volumes.
Again I want to emphasise that Eve is a fine beginning to a climate fiction tale targeted at a YA audience. I just believe it could have been so much better.
I picked up Eve because of the gorgeous cover. Mi-Gyeong's artwork and Peer's colouring remained very pleasing on the eye throughout the book but LaValle's storytelling wasn't quite so constant.
The plot focuses on Eve, a young girl who has woken up in a world after the sea levels have drastically risen and a virus has been thawed and released which turns adults into zombie-like scavengers. Her only constant companion is Wexler, an AI programmed by her father and implanted into the body of her favourite teddy bear. Together they must instigate a plan to stimulate growth of a particular plant to help restore the ecosystem and finally reconnect with Eve's father. However the scavengers come and surprising threats reveal themselves.
While not wishing to go into spoilers, I must stress that I liked the sci-fi elements of this story. Eve's and Wexler's origins are fascinating, as are the details of their plan to save the Earth. What bothered me was the way that LaValle revealed details. Big ideas are introduced halfway through the story when really they deserved their own volume to properly unpack. Instead it felt like we were rushing through biological marvels without sufficiently addressing their sociological and psychological implications.
World-building seemed severely cut back, possibly due to a limited run of issues. I would have certainly appreciated more connective tissue between plot beats and for Eve to have spent more time with other characters beside Wexler. No matter how it's justified in the story, the dialogues she holds with herself always struck me as clunky.
In short, I wish LaValle had paced himself a bit more with this book. Bulk out chapters one to three, allowing side characters more time to shine and using the midway twists as a cliffhanger between volumes.
Again I want to emphasise that Eve is a fine beginning to a climate fiction tale targeted at a YA audience. I just believe it could have been so much better.
February 2, 2023
I wanted to like this more than I did, only in support of the wonderful cover, but too many of the story points, as illustrated, came across as just not believable.
I have become very tired of SF stories that revolve around people not understanding how to program artificial intelligence safely. Isaac Asimov created simple rules that could make it work, many years ago, and scientists are geeks enough to have read his robot stories. They would recognize the pitfalls, even if they came up with more elegant solutions.
That said, the artwork was gorgeous, but so exaggerated at times as to break my suspension of disbelief. The "instant" mangrove trees, for example...do either the author or the artist understand just how much carbon you'd have to pull out of the air and ground to make that happen? Thus, it came across as "magic box" stuff rather than science.
Then, there was the varying depth of the water. Yes, if all the ice caps and glaciers melted, the oceans would rise, possibly over 200 feet. This is shown in the New York scenes...but not in the coastline maps. How could the water get that much higher without changing the Pacific coast of North America? A lot of California is less than 200 feet above sea level...
Okay, so Wexler did one good thing...does this counterbalance all the bad stuff he did before that? I'm not at all sure I buy Eve's reactions near the end of the book.
Even with all that, the book was worth reading...just not as good as it could have been.
I have become very tired of SF stories that revolve around people not understanding how to program artificial intelligence safely. Isaac Asimov created simple rules that could make it work, many years ago, and scientists are geeks enough to have read his robot stories. They would recognize the pitfalls, even if they came up with more elegant solutions.
That said, the artwork was gorgeous, but so exaggerated at times as to break my suspension of disbelief. The "instant" mangrove trees, for example...do either the author or the artist understand just how much carbon you'd have to pull out of the air and ground to make that happen? Thus, it came across as "magic box" stuff rather than science.
Then, there was the varying depth of the water. Yes, if all the ice caps and glaciers melted, the oceans would rise, possibly over 200 feet. This is shown in the New York scenes...but not in the coastline maps. How could the water get that much higher without changing the Pacific coast of North America? A lot of California is less than 200 feet above sea level...
Okay, so Wexler did one good thing...does this counterbalance all the bad stuff he did before that? I'm not at all sure I buy Eve's reactions near the end of the book.
Even with all that, the book was worth reading...just not as good as it could have been.
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