Most of the dystopian stories fail in the world building. In EVE because the great catastrophe, the plague, is only twelve years in the past, you can understand the chaos in this building, but not the inconsistency. 
 Things I didn't like or didn't make sense to me: 
 The School and the girls' future: the girls' planned future grossed me out, but it wasn't so disgusting for the main character since she is able to leave without warning her friends or just taking them with her. I don't understand why the creators of this system think having girls deceived about what is going to be their live for 12 years will make them more cooperative when they learn the truth. Teenage girls, no less... O.o Besides, if the new government has been working for 20years to rebuild that part of the world, how did they get to "educate" the first women for the "trade"? How many classes graduated until now? The explanations are vague and this vagueness doesn't help to make it believable. And, why do you need to teach English literature for that future? Just to deceive them? I can't think of a reason why teaching these books could make the girls hate men and agree more to their destiny. 
 The love story: it has the usual pace for a normal love story, but for a girl with Eve's background it does move too quickly. Caleb has just saved her and she's already drooling over his muscles. Why does Eve forget 12 years of education against the other sex so quick? Or she is too driven by her crazy hormones or the training was crap... or both. 
 The lucky coincidences that save the heroine's ass every single time she ends up in troubles or her bad and selfish decisions kill everyone around her. I can't quite believe some parts from the last third of the book, especially (view spoiler)[the part when Caleb finds her in the desert. WTF was that? O__O (hide spoiler)] 
 Eve's completely lack of remorse: it's like she forgets very fast all the wrongs she has done after she has done them... she leaves her best friends behind... She makes very bad decisions that end up very badly and after she gets over the shock, she doesn't have another moment to think about what she has done. Perhaps in future books we will see another Eve more sensitive and less selfish, because the one in this book didn't win my sympathy. 
 Things I liked: 
 Arden: what a great character. She is tough, rude but sensitive and is such a good friend without even knowing it, (view spoiler)[I just hope she survived (which would be ridiculous, but in this book anything could happen). (hide spoiler)] 
 Caleb: ok, he's gorgeous, but he is also very mature and sensitive and loves Eve. 
 The new world order with the King of New America intrigues me. It could be developed in something very interesting, but first the main character needs to grow up. 
 In the end, EVE was an ok read for me. It began very promising but deflated the more I read into the book. 
 Many thanks to HarperCollins and netGalley for providing me with a copy of the book.