BOOK REVIEW: “Havah, The Story of Eve” by Tosca Lee

“Havah, The Story of Eve” by Tosca Lee

Nav Press Publishing, October 10, 2008

This masterpiece by talented Christian author Tosca Lee tells the story of Adam and Eve (known as ‘Havah’ in the book) through Eve’s eyes. Lee takes the reader through Eve’s eyes. Lee takes us from Eve’s ecstasy as she walks with God in the garden and enjoys a ‘one flesh’ relationship with Adam to the damning choice that causes her to deteriorate in a decaying world.

I rarely read fiction that causes me to weep. This is one of those jewels. I was sobbing throughout, especially at the end. After years of living as a Christian, I can count on my fingers the times I’ve felt tangibly close to God. This was one of them. I even came to understand why God gave us to have the choice to eat the ‘forbidden fruit.’ Real love begins when a human, in their fallen state and living in a fallen world, can still look beyond their five senses and choose God. Real love begins when that same God humbles himself, choosing to experience life and redemptive death through a human’s five senses, thus restoring our relationship with Him.

Philippians 2:5-9 (NASB) says:

“Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,”

Havah is the best book I’ve read in 2008. Italso earned a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, so if you get a chance. Add this one to your reading list. It’s well worth it.

Visit the Tosca Lee’s website at http://www.toscalee.com/ and her blog at http://www.toscamoon.blogspot.com/