Adam & Eve

I am happy to suspend my disbelief when reading a story, and I even try really hard to believe in  all the characters. I come in giving the author the benefit of the doubt. But Sena Jeter Naslund's new novel Adam & Eve stretched beyond my capacity to forgive it's weaknesses.

The story is about Lucy, wife of a scientist 10 years in the future who is murdered for his discovery of extra-terrestial life (she wears his much sought after flash drive around her neck throughout the novel.) When she takes on the task of smuggling documents out of Egypt, that happen to be another version of Genesis (yes that's right) in a plane she conveniently knows how to fly herself, she crashes in Mesopotamia where she finds fellow naked traveller Adam (gorgeous traumatized soldier who believes her to be Eve) and thus begins their healing stint in the garden of Eden. The plot becomes much stranger from here with many more even less believable characters to fill in the gaps.

Although it was mildly interesting, it was just too unbelievable and sloppily written to take seriously. There has been such praise for Naslund's earlier book Ahab's Wife, maybe I will give her another chance and try reading that book instead-and if you are also new to this author, I would recommend doing the same.