A huge thank you to NetGalley and Histria Books for the review copy of B. K. O’Connor’s beautiful book “Eve.” It is very appreciated!

I initially rated this book four stars on Goodreads, but I am revising that to a full five; this book was so good it deserves all of the stars. Some years ago, I read Mark Twain’s “Eve’s Diary,” in which he was so close to almost understanding a woman’s point of view that I wonder if Livy advised him. B. K. O’Connor obviously needed no assistance in bringing Eve to life in a spectacular fashion. O’Connor gives us Eve as she was meant to be, the Mother of All, brilliant, curious, fearless; she challenges the status quo by her very existence. O’Connor’s Eve dares to challenge God. She refuses to be meek. She refuses to accept “this is how it is.” When she is not given answers, she seeks her own, traveling the known world to find the answer to humankind’s purpose on the earth. She becomes the beloved daughter of a multitude of goddesses, learning from each land she visits. She is a teacher, divine in her own human femininity.

B. K. O’Connor gives readers a fierce, strong, independent female lead with the ability to touch your heart. She loves, she laughs, she weeps for her loved ones, fights to survive and seeks to learn. This Eve is no simple companion. She is a woman as woman is meant to be.