Reviews

Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet

thislibrarianisreading's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

alicebme's review against another edition

2.0

Unique, interesting, and then not so satisfying. Some things are spot on, and then the story scatters too much. The big idea is a little too abstract for me.

jackieblair's review against another edition

4.0

I'm torn between giving this 3 or 4 stars. I loved every bit up until the last chapter where I started to get lost. Really well written, poetic in it's narrative.

annakoozy's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

kscaldwell's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

sandygx260's review against another edition

2.0

Smoke and mirrors. Seriously, this book slogged then peaked then slogged, and really peaked before it turned into a God is in the language and the vile husband might be the Devil muddle. At one point I almost thought the author didn't know what to do with the story line so she added in some strange record skip time change.

This novel is worthy of the Pulitzer short list? Great, guess I'm a literary idiot because I closed the book, went "huh, that's it?" and wondered about reading "Good Omens" again, one of my all-time favorite books ever. I'm not into a story which seems relatively stable before it suddenly smokes crack as it leaps into Wonderland for the last thirty or so pages.

This book just isn't my cup of wine.

I should take notes... in order to be considered "literary", an author needs to write long passages of inner angst, season them with some weird shit that makes no sense, add in God, destruction, and toss in hints of the Devil. Got it.

Not happening anything soon.

yubieblah's review against another edition

Lost interest.
Lack of action.

vizira's review against another edition

i finally called it quits with just under 50 pages left, because shit i just could not do it any longer. Millet has some genuinely interesting ideas here, about language and society etc but wow, she is terrible at actually pulling those things together into a satisfactory narrative.

the problems with this novel (and they are legion) might stem from the fact that it seems as though she just did not know what kind of novel to write. a fun thriller, or a wierd philosophical treatise on the nature of language and its place in society? so she wrote both and duct-taped them together, and didn't bother to spend the time or energy to develop either or work it into any sort of compelling narrative.

maybeee a really good editor could have saved this trash fire but alas

wemedge's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

zoraidasolo's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes