A review by marisa_syl
Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet

3.0

This book was challenging, to say the least. Millet’s prose remains exquisite, but the combination of psychological thriller with such heavy-handed metaphor and allusion was difficult to parse. I think she tried to tackle too much, and while the plot wraps up somewhat neatly, the novel reads like a fable without a sufficiently clear or specific moral. Despite the potential to be great, the vaguely dystopian and heavily applied message that “modern society has problems” was unsatisfying.