Fallen

I know it's low-class to rate my own books. But I do, actually, think they're pretty good.......more

Despite being inspired by content that has been around for a few thousand years, it is very original and fresh. I was recently reminded of how much I enjoyed reading David Maine's first book, The Preservationist, and so I went out and picked up everything he's written since. The Fallen didn't disapp......more

I hated to put Fallen down. Even when I was frustrated with a character (I'm talking to you, Eve,) I was nonetheless riveted by how the four characters dealt with such issues as temptation, obedience, jealousy, pride, shame, fear and hope all within the construct of their various interpersonal relat......more

This book, written in reverse, was really entertaining and inventive. Every chapter seemed to allude to something that you didn't quite understand yet, but that would be outlined in the next chapter (that actually had happened previously). It sounds confusing but it was just interesting. I suppose t......more

This goes in reverse from Cain's death to the moment after Adam and Eve must leave Eden. So the novel's first half spins backwards to the first sibling rivalry. Maine must have studied midrash, the old Hebrew tales which grew out of the spare original tellings in Genesis of these powerful, painful,......more