Daughters of Eve

Rating:
Summary: Interesting.
Review: I just finished reading this book literally 10 minutes ago and it left me with a big question: What was the moral? The flap claimed that the book was about a crazy teacher brainwashing her students into taking undeserved revenge on men. However, I'm not sure the text backs this up. The "undeserved revenge" only happens three times, and while the second was underresearched, the first and third were in the right. Especially the third (the final scene in the book). It left me smiling and saying "Good!" when I think I was supposed to be shocked and horrified. But then, that's the main problem with this book. Are we supposed to agree with the Daughters of Eve, disapprove, or some combination? The author is very hazy about this. The problems the girls face are very real and easy to sympathize with--Jane's father hits her mother. Ruthie's brothers are horrible, cruel people. Ann shouldn't be tied down at 18. The club and the teacher are the only people in the entire book who even notice these problems, much less do anything about them. If the flap is correct and their response is just insane, then why no alternative viewpoint, a character who recognizes that the situations are unfair and then deals with them in a rational manner? Is the flap wrong and the author did not intend for the club's actions to seem crazy? Is Duncan advocating a world where domestic abuse, unthinking cruelty towards women and unfair labor divisions are a god-given right? Was she simply too lazy to illustrate the "proper" viewpoint? Did she never think it out beyond "feminism might go to far"? I'll probably never know, short of a conversation with Lois Duncan, but I do find it an interesting problem. The author's waffling is a huge, undeniable flaw, but the book itself is well-written enough to make Duncan's refusal to take a stand intriguing as well as infuriating. It has caused me to think about my opinions on the situations in the book, and what I think is a reasonable response. Because of the above-average quality of writing, I do recomend it, if only as a sort of Rorshach test of your own views on the issues presented.

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Summary: Daughters of Eve-A Put Down Book
Review: I love Lois Duncan and all her books, I've read so many of them but I have to say that this one was a boring book. I actually couldn't finish it. I went on to read a different one. I enjoyed the beginning, when the one girl was freaking out at the ceremony but afterwards it just was being drug on and on. I put it down. I may finish it someday, but I'm not sure. Hope this helps!! :) mwaz

xOx Krista Marie

Rating:
Summary: interesting but no moral at all
Review: Daughters of Eve was one of the most interesting books i have ever read, but i wouldnt say it is good. I love how the characters r well built. But the moralo of the story, is there even one? is it that all men are sexist abusers? or not to listen to your art teacher? I really dont know.
I could not believe how intensly developed the characters were. All of the girls and their parents, irene, peter,.
When i was in the middle of the book i started thinking all guys were like the ones in this book. i started to question the men in my life and my position as a young women.
At the end i was majorly shocked that nothing happened to Irene and that she just kept doing this to the club at school, and that Jane ended up in a mental hospital.!!!! wow. I really do think it is a must readw becuase of all the intense issues it raises, but dont go in it looking for a moral

Rating:
Summary: Well-written...and some balance provided, but not enough
Review: Lois Duncan was one of my favorite authors when I was a teenager. She wrote believable characters and also managed to spin some genuinely scary yarns ("Down a Dark Hall" is the best of these, in my opinion).

However, this book gets muddled and it's hard to tell what, exactly, the point is. Is it that Irene, the leader of the high school girls' club Daughters of Eve, is nuts? That feminists hate all men? That women shouldn't fight back against injustice? That they should?

The very first "incident" in which the Daughters take revenge on an offending male is described as horrible, but it actually seems downright mild, considering the male in question is a hateful cad who used one of the club members -- overweight, insecure, shy Laura -- for sex and then cruelly dumped her: they shave his head. Oooohh. Myself, I was sorry they didn't do likewise to his creep of a brother.

After that, though, things do start to get violent, and the girls attack at least one undeserving man, because of Irene's prodding. A couple of the girls realize that it's getting out of hand, and withdraw themselves from the situation. Also, there are a couple of people who realize the unfairness of the situations the girls face, and take their sides: Ruthie's parents ground her after she refuses to clean up after her brothers, but Ruthie's mother eventually defies her sexist husband and revokes the grounding; Ann gets pregnant and tells her father she's thinking about an abortion, and he tells her she has his support no matter what decision she makes.

So I guess the point of the book is that non-violent solutions to unfairness and injustice are best. Though again, I'm not sure that is actually the point.

Rating:
Summary: good book
Review: I have to say, out of all the books 've ever read, this is at the top of my list! It's a little bit confusing at first, with so many girls, but some of the girl's emotions and situations are pretty realistic. For example, Laura Snow is insecure about a weight problem. Another girl, Kelly Johnson, is angry about her parent's divorce. And Bambi (my favorite person- she is so smart and strong) is being pressured and lied to by her jerk of a boyfriend. I loved this book, and I have read it many times- It is just sooooooo good! I would recommend this book to everyone!

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Summary: Daughters of Eve....A Great Read
Review: I thought this book was boring because it went too slow. My summary of this book I read was boring because it wasn't effect detail. Some parts in this book was OK but, it was all about her and how everything was about her. No one liked her she had to do so much. She took care of her brother. She never get her way. I feel sorry for her because its a hot summer and she has no cold air in the house so its really hot. She's not liked at school but, then she gets into a club. I wouldn't read this book again. There was some killings but, it should have been more detail. If someone asked me if this book was good I would say no it was really boring inlets you like slow books that it takes a long time to get to the good part. I would rate this book with 1 star.