Book Review: Eve and the Choice Made in Eden

by Beverly Campbell
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I couldn't finish this book. It was not keeping me interested at all. From what I did read, I don't feel like the author really had anything new to add to the subject. In her preface, she talks about how one of her goals in writing the book is to bring the world around to a new way of thinking about Mother Eve. Which I thought sounded cool. But in the couple of chapters I read she using so much LDS jargon without explaining any of it, that anyone not of the LDS faith trying to read it, wouldn't be able to follow it clearly. The language she uses suggests that her target audience is the LDS people, but if that's so, what exactly is she trying to bring to their attention, as they already believe the things she's writing about? My suggestion would be this, if you want to know what LDS people believe about the roll of Eve in the Garden of Eden, read talks and article by the LDS Prophets and Apostles, which you can find on lds.org

Despite the fact that I didn't like, or even finish the book, we had an awesome book club discussion using it as the base. Only a couple of people in our book club bothered to finish the book all the way through, but The Garden of Eden is a familiar topic to all of us, and we enjoyed talking about it together.