A review by aliceleanne
Lilith by George MacDonald

3.0

Really fascinating to read one of the first modern fantasies. It’s easy to see now why Lewis chose George MacDonald to be his guide through heaven in The Great Divorce. I can see echoes of Lilith in TGD, The space trilogy, and Chronicles of Narnia. That being said, this definitely isn’t my style of book, but I was able to appreciate it from a literary standpoint. It very much felt like the author was teaching his readers what a fantasy was more than anything, and he was hyper-concerned with the metaphysical aspects of the fantasy realm, so the story took a backseat to those issues.