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Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman

16 reviews

camjam36's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This is the first novel I ever started and finished in a day. It was hard to read. It was even harder not to read. Eve's own little world enraptured me as swiftly and securely as any fantasy from my childhood if not moreso. Eve's sexual identity was painfully relatable in ways I cannot describe. The choices she made were immoral, yet unavoidable. The book is steamy and intense all the way through—in some ways like sharing a sauna on your honeymoon, in others like humid summer's fish market. That is to say, it was as sweet as it was sickening. My lesbian perspective on such a deeply bisexual story is surely preventing me from engaging with it on a deeper level than I already have, but I've still closed this book feeling touched, maybe even a little gently violated. Fishman's prose is robust and extensive, sometimes to its detriment. Character dialogue sometimes reads a little too closely to the ramblings of Eve's mind. Also there are no quotation marks. I tolerated it, but I definitely didn't like it. At all. I did like the book though. I think. Probably.

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annajoybooks's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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placeholder13's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

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jneverland's review against another edition

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dark funny informative tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

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madelinequinnee's review

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informative reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I can’t really describe how I feel about this book. I understand the message it was trying to portray, that what you once believed your sexuality entailed can change, since sexuality is so fluid, and that love doesn’t necessarily mean you want to have a whole life with a person and involve them in everything, but i don’t know, it just feels like at times it missed the point slightly.

There were some beautiful lines in this novel, so i did appreciate that, but i’m not a fan of books that don’t use speech marks when someone is talking, it always makes it so much harder to follow.

I don’t really understand what Olivia and Eve saw in Nathan, it kind of just felt like a story about two women following a mediocre man just because he could fuck well?

I just found this kind of boring at times, and i’m not a huge fan of lit fic so that probably had something to do with it.

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