YMMV / Eve: The Awakening

• Bile Fascination: Some readers find as much rant material in this book as in The Twilight Saga and Eragon. The fact that the author is best known for writing advice just adds fuel to the fire.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Around the middle of the book, "Chin Dimple," who up till that point was a typical Dumb Jock making crude sexist jokes, attempts to gang-rape Eve with his friends. She kicks their asses and escapes, but afterward, the incident is never mentioned in either dialogue or narration again, except once where it's treated as if it had just been another average bullying session (while there are reasons Eve might not tell anyone about what happened, one would think she'd at least think about it now and then).
• Don't Shoot the Message:
  • Even some people who rant endlessly about the book will admit that it has some very important lessons for young people, that are much needed in a post-Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey world (that is, sans its black-and-white portrayal of people in general).
  • Also some related to the author herself, since her channel is mostly about writing advice. A lot of people who don't like her writing will still concede that a lot of the advice is pretty solid.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Percy, his mother, Sancho, JJ, and Aarman all have fans, even among those who otherwise didn’t care for the book overall.
• Hype Backlash: If you're among those who hate this book, then let's be real about something; if this book had received lukewarm reviews saying it was "okay for a first, self-published book" at best, you wouldn't hate it nearly as much as you do. Most of the negativity comes not simply from the book's quality, but how said quality compares to the massive number of raving five-star reviews. The fact that the author is best known for giving out writing advice yet makes many of the writing mistakes she herself teaches against in Eve doesn't help, either.
• Moral Event Horizon: "Chin Dimple" crosses this when he and his friends attempt to gang-rape Eve. Granted, she doesn't seem to have taken it all too personally, as the incident is never mentioned again.
• The Scrappy: Aarman, for his overuse of the word "dynamic," and/or JJ for her bizarre hostility towards Eve in the first half of the book (JJ, a college student, initially hates Eve the literal moment she learns what dorm Eve is staying in, then does a 180 when she learns Eve is a Chimera and therefore not part of the social elite).
• Uncertain Audience: Many reviews have pointed out that the plot revolving around an outcast with powers dealing with bullies at a new school and teaming up with fellow outcasts to save the world reads a lot like a Young Adult or children's escapist fantasy story, but given the college setting, the protagonists being in their late teens/early twenties (Eve herself is 19) and the graphic violence, it wasn't intended for teens. The problem is that some of the content is presented in a way that seems too juvenile to appeal to older readers; the college resembles high school more than anything, the bullies come off as cartoonish caricatures, and the subject of prejudice is dealt with in a very basic and shallow manner (especially considering even some YA books have approached the topic in a more nuanced and effective way).
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Some of Eve's bullies are so over the top in their immaturity that they could arguably be interpreted as mentally handicapped.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Eve's tragic flashbacks and bullying comes off as so exaggerated, cliche, and gratuitous to many readers, that it backfires.
• The Woobie: Eve is clearly intended to be this. Your mileage may vary on how well this is handled.

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