by Paul Ikin

by Paul Ikin

Neverending Story meets Alice in Wonderland!

Sometimes to tell one story…two must be told.

Schoolgirl Evelin Boots has overwhelming anxiety she can't decipher. Like a corrosive shadow, it follows her day and night, spitting at her with negative thoughts. As her mental health declines, it fuels the darkness in the fantastical realm of Mare-Marie. Here its cursed princess, Belleny must journey outside her solitary confinement to stop the growing evil that’s connected to Eve. But the worse Eve becomes the worse it gets for Belleny.
Follow two magical and moving stories that weave and repel each other to find truth, harmony and solace.

Indie Author & Illustrator

The Other Side of Eve
A YA Fantasy

by Paul Ikin

A stand-alone fantasy novel full of enchantment and anxiety as two alternate realities are interwoven and inextricably bound together, where action, consequence and reaction control the life force and fate of a fragile teenager and a cursed Princess.

NOW AVAILABLE

Shadow Theatre
1/1 NFT Collection.

Proud to present Shadow Theatre, a series of 1/1 Chapter Art Illustrations by author/illustrator Paul Ikin.
Artwork based on the Chapter Art found within the TOSOE.

Available on Opensea

When anxiety takes hold, when fear gains power, a whirlpool of darkness surrounds and evil takes over.
Here is a journey that goes far beyond and deep within.

 Available as Mobi & ePub (eBook)

Self Published

Self Published. Creator of The Other Side of Eve in all its entity, illustrator of chapter art, designer of the book layout, covers and fantasy map.
Also this website!  Years of dedication and love for the craft.

Only Available Here

Digital Edition is only available through theothersideofeve.com

Contemporary Novel

A modern novel, where two stories interwind. One in the real world as we know it, another in a mystical land far beyond...and sometimes another strange place where the Weatherman resides.

The Other Side of Eve

Digital Edition

80+ Illustrations

Hand illustrated by the author in a traditional silhouette inked style.
Get a closer look into the mind of Paul Ikin's dark and fantastical characters that live here and beyond on Mare-Marie.

Mobi or ePub

Download available as ePub or Mobi for any digital reading device. Identical to paperback, but digital.

YA Fantasy

As Evelin Boots confronts her anxieties and fears she is taken deeper into her psyche, where the world is strange yet oddly familiar. Friends and family have advice, but ultimately she has to confront her fears head-on.

Paperback & Hardcover available through Amazon.

LONG BLURB

Sometimes to tell one story...two must be told.


The Other Side of Eve: 


This enchanting narrative shares two abstract tales as one extraordinary journey. Entwined by action and consequence, the key protagonists are teenagers Evelin Boots and Belleny Vera. Both girls are placed in time across two lands; one in reality as we know it, the other, Mare-Marie, created as a metaphysical realm. Its fate is destined by the energy of the ethereal and the mental health of Evelin Boots.


Enter the surreal world of Mare-Marie, where magic is banned and a peculiar princess, Belleny, remains indoors, unable to bear the outside world. Its once ethereal foreshore is now a spawning fetid ditch of macabre where monstrous creatures, curses and witches spawn. In the darkened quarters of the Crystalon Castle, Princess Belleny, a renowned recluse, is withering physically and emotionally in a self-confined tomb. Finding her only solace with the Orphans, an unusual group of creatures found under the most suspicious circumstances.

The young Princess and the Orphans are awoken by a mysterious newcomer, the two-tailed Bateau, whose presence causes a chain reaction of dramatic and bewitching events that take them on a forbidden journey beyond the kingdom and into a battle of justice and honor against a vengeful witch and her growing army.


Here in Yellow Tree, there’s a bright and volatile teenager named Evelin Boots who is seeking a normal existence. With rising conflictions and burgeoning anxiety, she questions her sanity. ‘Eve’ escapes into her mind, searching for a switch to turn off her thoughts. Advice will be given; truths will unfold, for better or worse.

Little does she know her state of mind is the cause behind the state of Mare-Marie. The worse she gets the worse it becomes, fuelling the darkness and the sea that is destined to drown all.

It’s a race against time for Evelin to find solace and peace within herself before her anxieties bring eternal darkness across Mare-Marie and the Princess battling her demons within.

A little book trailer.

Map of Mare-Marie

"Lewis Carroll meets Narnia; I enjoyed the quest narrative thread & the two stories are woven together marvellously. 

If you enjoy fantasy novels I recommend this."
@joshguilar


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