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A review by pinkblingd
Eden Abandoned by Shinie Antony
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
What I absolutely loved about the book:
- Lilith's cynicism and character dissection of Adam and God is so on point, merciless, hilarious, and, well, satisfactory.
- Lilith regularly draws attention to made-in-god's-form-Adam's act, God's cruelty, and the sexism in the retelling of her stories
- The beauty of breaking down the truths of the garden of Eden and the world beyond — heteronormative societies, shame and duty, capitalism and pornography, equality and marriage.
- The emo-badass narration
And yet, I did not enjoy the second half.
.
.
.
Maybe I expected Lilith to be something other than Lilith. Maybe a book that's exhaustively around Lilith's 'revenge' phase isn't such a great idea. But then, even outside it, there was so much of Adam in her mind... it just was too much for me.
- Lilith's cynicism and character dissection of Adam and God is so on point, merciless, hilarious, and, well, satisfactory.
- Lilith regularly draws attention to made-in-god's-form-Adam's act, God's cruelty, and the sexism in the retelling of her stories
- The beauty of breaking down the truths of the garden of Eden and the world beyond — heteronormative societies, shame and duty, capitalism and pornography, equality and marriage.
- The emo-badass narration
And yet, I did not enjoy the second half.
.
.
.
Maybe I expected Lilith to be something other than Lilith. Maybe a book that's exhaustively around Lilith's 'revenge' phase isn't such a great idea. But then, even outside it, there was so much of Adam in her mind... it just was too much for me.