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A review by rpcroke
Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet
1.0
This is just awful. The story is uninteresting and scattered and the writing is up there with 50 shades of grey. The adjective choices are bizarre and there are simply some stupid metaphors and similes.
She keeps beating this dead horse of a trick where there will be a paragraph with lots of colorful and descriptive language, and then, to hammer whatever the point is, there is a Hemmingway-esque paragraph that is one sentence that is extremely declarative. Over and over again. It is so boring and uninspiring. And lazy.
And the inner monologue that rambles for pages and pages that go nowhere and don't push the plot forward makes me think she was getting paid by the word.
I actually quit a book club because of the choice of this book.
She keeps beating this dead horse of a trick where there will be a paragraph with lots of colorful and descriptive language, and then, to hammer whatever the point is, there is a Hemmingway-esque paragraph that is one sentence that is extremely declarative. Over and over again. It is so boring and uninspiring. And lazy.
And the inner monologue that rambles for pages and pages that go nowhere and don't push the plot forward makes me think she was getting paid by the word.
I actually quit a book club because of the choice of this book.