Age of Eve by D.M. Pratt5/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Even readers who enjoy eroticized sexual violence and tedious fights between good and evil can find better writing about them elsewhere. Set in New Orleans, Age of Eve is an emotional story of love threatened by the return of creatures first described in ancient Hebrew and Christian texts as the Nephilim or 'fallen Sons of God. As Eve learns to travel between realities, she realizes that she’s intimately connected to the Nephilim’s goals on Earth. Worried, Eve’s best friend takes her to a voodoo priestess who explains that the man who “seduced” Eve is possessed by one of the Nephilim, fallen sons of God who control women’s minds and incite their lust. She awakens the next morning in the plantation’s garden maze, naked and sexually satiated, with no recollection of the rest of the evening. Eve Dowling, writer for a New Orleans weekly, attends a charity ball at a plantation and dances with a sensual stranger. His fingers slipped into every opening she had”) characterize the opener of Pratt’s paranormal trilogy. Awkward melodrama, tired gender stereotypes, and cliché-ridden hypnotized “passion” that’s actually rape (“On her so fast she couldn’t speak. ![]()
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