Download the first five chapters of Eve & Adam by Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate In the beginning, there was an apple- And then there was a car crash, a horrible injury, and a hospital. But before Evening Spiker's head clears, a strange boy named Solo is rushing her to her mother's research facility. There, under the best care available, Eve is left alone to heal. Just when Eve thinks she will die-not from her injuries, but from boredom-her mother gives her a special project: Create the perfect boy. Using an amazingly detailed simulation, Eve starts building a boy from the ground up. Eve is creating Adam. And he will be just perfect . . . won't he? Intrigued? Eve & Adam is available now!

YA文学の巨星が共作で挑む本作の真髄は、単なるSFを超えた「創造主としての誘惑」と「不完全さへの渇望」にあります。瀕死の少女が理想の異性をゼロから設計する過程は、現代のピュグマリオン神話とも言える背徳的な美しさを放ち、読者の知的好奇心を強烈に刺激します。 著者の鋭い筆致は、完璧を求める人間のエゴを浮き彫りにし、魂の在り処を問いかけます。理想を追求するはずが、いつの間にか自分自身の孤独や深淵に触れてしまう主人公の心の機微こそが、本作の文学的な魅力の核です。禁断の果実をかじるようなスリルを、ぜひその手で味わってください。