Review: Eve, the Serpent and Adam
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2012
Bravo to the author for telling like it surely was. For generations young women the world over have been told the same thing about not allowing men to take liberties with their persons. Sometimes the disastrous results lead to marriage - happy for a few, the opposite for most - or sometimes it works out like it did here. A young motherless girl with an emotionally distant father falls under the seductive spell of a notorious rake only to find herself pregnant, ignored by her seducer and at the mercy of her uncaring father. Along comes an unknown knight and savior who, recently diagnosed with a degenerative heart disease, unwittingly falls into the old trap laced with 'judging a book by it's lovely cover.' The back story, a mixing of the upper and servant classes, is very interesting and should have been its own book. The two main characters eventually fall in love, only to meet up with the serpent who believes it is his right to gleefully inform Adam of Eve's sin. He gets a busted nose for his trouble and being the snake in the grass that he literally is, he shoots our hero in the back. That, for our hero, along with his prior medical condition means almost certain death. Here the author (publisher) comes through for the reader by giving us a happy ending. Our hero is allowed to live and go on to father the next generation of Randalls. The serpent? Perhaps we will run into him in another of the author's excellent works. Well done.