Lilith

Lilith by Eric Rickstad

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


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DNF at 56% of the audio version.

I would have liked to keep going but it just wasn't worth it. The premise was great. A woman's son is seriously injured in a school shooting. She decides to channel her inner Rambo and direct her anger at the gun lobby. Then she posts the video on social media and both sides - pro and con - go ballistic.

The problem is, it seems the author has been told, and believes, information dumps are the work of the devil. So much does he avoid them, it was at the 23 minute mark before he provided two coherent statements so we know the incident took place in America and a single shooter was involved.

It was around the 50% mark she took action and while I would have loved to hear what happened on social media, I knew, details would be so few and far between I'd have to listen to any amount of first-person emoting before getting to the good stuff. Almost the entire book takes place inside the protagonist's head and it seems she's largely incapable of thinking rational thoughts for more than a sentence. Frankly I couldn't care less about what she thought. I wanted to know what she and those around her DID.

This book is definitely not for me. If one happens to like living in someone's head - a someone who is very emotional - such a person might enjoy reading this. Just don't expect rational, coherent thought processes.



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