Little Eve

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Little Eve by Catriona Ward

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


It's more like a 2.5 star read for me as I found this repetitive and frankly a little boring but I wasn't sure how much of that is on me and my fractured reading time. This is a historical story in the earlier half of the 20th century where a 'family' is off the coast of Scotland on an island waiting for the end of the world more or less and thinking (in theory) that there is snake -god-whatever that gives them power.

It's centered over a couple of the women in the group, Dinah and the titular Eve. Content warning this is about a cult, child abuse, child sexual abuse, forced abortion, infanticide and generalized flipflopping narratives that took more energy than I had to give it to be honest.

Murders happen. Their interference with the town ends in killings. And honestly this was way overly long even though it wasn't that long of a novel. IMO this would have been better off as a novella, more tightly written instead of meandering back and forth through the years rehashing things.



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