Fallen Book

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 disappoint - I love his writing. His style is wry and sparce. In this novel he tells the story backwards, beginning with Cain on his deathbed and ending with Adam and Even's banishment from the garden. I loved it. What you find in the middle is a countdown to that fateful day of mankind when we lost utopia - each chapter revealing the reasons why the events we just learned of occured. It was a nice change that I found quite refreshing. Instead of waiting to find out what is going to happen, you know the ending and instead are reading to find the seeds and events leading up to that moment. What was it that made Cain do what he did? What you find is heart wrenching at times - sparse, but emptional. It is a picture into the first family and there are echoes in each of our families today. They may have been the first recorded family in history, but there were reasons for their dysfuctions and they weren't that different than we are today.

Now, on to Samson...