Book review: Sweet Lamb of Heaven

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Title: Sweet Lamb of Heaven
Author: Lydia Millett
Rating: 2 stars

Summary:  This novel is a Anna's account of how she escaped her cold and unfaithful husband Ned with her daughter.  Ned comes back in her life when he decides to run for office.  And so begins his manipulation.  Can Anna trust the other guests that are staying at the Maine hotel with her?

Review:  This book started out so promising.  A woman and her daughter escape her sociopath husband to live a quiet life in a Maine motel.  But then s*** got weird and not in a good way.  Here’s a list of my grievances.  *Spoiler alert* The point of this blog is to spare you from bad books, right?  However, be forewarned that this gives things away so don’t say I didn’t warn you.

1. The voice: Anna used to hear a voice but it went away with the birth of her daughter.  This voice spoke in tongues.  She discovers that everybody in the motel has heard a voice/music/sound of some kind at some point (sometimes it’s an animal’s voice?) but it’s never clearly explained where this voice came from and why Anna’s the only one that the voice stopped for.

1. The motel: How did she end up at a place where eveyrbody’s heard the voice?  This wasn’t clearly explained.

1. Ned’s mind control: What?  This part was weird too.  And he was maybe a robot?  Or an image?  By then I had stopped caring.

1. The money: Anna doesn’t work and while she doesn’t live in luxury, she claims she saved enough from her pre-child career to live off of for years?  I never buy this story (pun intended).

 Time to write: 7:05