jonesy_reads 's review for:

Lilith by George MacDonald

3.0

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I'm torn on rating this. I would actually like to gve it 3.5 stars but alas that's not possible andit's just not worth 4 in my opinion. I really wanted to like this book but it just fell short for me. If you're not used to 19th century style writing I do not recommend reading this. I have studied 19C writing quite extensively and I still found a few places thatI had to slow my pace in order to get want what being said. It's a great story but it is overly drawn out and rather repetitive which is what for me knocked it down a star. Don't get me wrong some of my favorite books are well over 1000 pages long but they stories that take that longto tell whereasI believe this one could have been told in quite a few less pages than it was. It was definetly very interesting and great at forcing the reader to open their mind to some many possibilities. I can see how many of the books I have read of the years have been either directly or indirectly influenced by this piece which is really awesome.