Book Review For The Awakening

Genre: Horror

The Analysis:

I got this book on google play and if the reviews their wont make you mad. Have mercy, the inaccuracies. Please, let me tell you what this book is about. Because listening to anyone else might leave you lost. The Awakening by Lisa Lilly, let’s book review it.

(I also realized that in the past I would always link to Amazon, no matter what platform I read the book on. And I’ll start changing that because I really don’t have any allegience to that company.)

Heres the Blurb:

Lisa M. Lilly’s heart pounding supernatural thriller, The Awakening, tells the story of one young woman who finds her life at risk over a phenomenon she cannot understand.
Tara Spencer is at a loss. She recently learned she is pregnant, despite never having had sex. Her fiancé breaks up with her, convinced she cheated on him, her plans for medical school are derailed, and even her parents and best friend doubt her story.
Only a stranger, Cyril Woods, claims to believe that Tara is still a virgin. A member of The Brotherhood religious order, Cyril tells her the child is a possible new messiah. But when prenatal tests reveal shocking information, The Brotherhood, fearing Tara will trigger an Apocalypse, becomes her enemy.
As the forces aligned against her close in, Tara fights for her life, seeking a safe place to give birth and the answer to one question:
Are she and her child meant to save the world or destroy it?

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The cover is not particularly outstanding. The tower background is obscure as it has no place in the story. Yet it does communicate that something supernatural is happening with this pregnancy. Comment below what you think?

Now The Story:

Book Info:
Pages: 372
Author: Lisa Lilly
Available: On Google Play

Straight away, this story comes with a nice helping of denial. I hattte it. I’m a realist toeing on the line of being a pessimist. So I can’t read a bunch of, I don’t think this is happening without wanting to smack some people. It’s happening, snowflake.

Oddly enough though, I was fine with her family not believing her. I mean come on. But I was ready for our mc to hit the ground running and get to the real adventure and suspense. And it took awhile to get there.

But once I got past that its a familiar story that delievers on thrills.

She was so mistrusting of her own judgment that i started to believe the parents that she was crazy. Despite everything you see her going through. The author does a good job of instituting just enough doubt to not be sure.

And the action never let up. I did believe she was in danger. And stayed up late reading just so I could find out if she is crazy or is this all real.

Somewhere I began to realize that the author hadn’t done much research in the pregnancy department. Outside of nausea, the mc didn’t have many symptoms. She wasnt eating. And she wasnt letting the reader know how far along she was. Although it was clear that she was getting bigger. A little dissappointed in that.

But back to its positives, I wasn’t sure who to trust. It added another level of realistic evil to the mix. Once I finally believed this pregnancy was real.

I was also starting to see a theme too, where she couldn’t trust any of the men on her journey. Only the women. Insert eye roll. Sick of the battle of the sexes flowing in either direction.

There are also time jumps that arent accounted for in the book. You can easily get lost.

I was prepared to recommend this book despite its negatives because it truly is interesting. But at some point too many mistakes, is just too many.

The love for the guy who is helping her. Although reasonable, was not sufficiently built upon to find any of those feelings credible. Instead it looks like it was just placed there because thats what’s supposed to happen next.

By the tv show appearance, I just wanted it all to be over. Have the baby, don’t have it. End up in the psych ward or some temple. I don’t know. The book just seemed excessively long. It wasn’t that scene itself, because that was interesting.

I think I could chalk up my ambivalent feelings towards the mc, because she didn’t have any convincing arguments. Majority of her arguments were in the vein of, why can’t there be a woman second coming. But once you decide that in fact you’re not shamed by the thought. God does work in mysterious ways. The mc, has nothing else to back up her claims. As a Christian myself, I could see myself saying, I reserve judgment until the baby starts talking because you don’t know nothing. Just going around saying believe in peace. Believe in this baby. Any hippy would say that. Enough.

I’m so curious about the baby. How could I not be? But I’m not invested enough in the heroine to keep going.

Story At A Glance:

Recommendation: Maybe, this is definitely one of those books where you just have to read it yourself and decide.

The Ratings:

Book Cover Appeal:

🍓🍓🍓

Story & Narration:

🍓🍓🍓🍓

Romance:

🍓

Sex Scenes:N

Not Applicable

P.S. I know, I read the book and could only come up with a maybe. Plus, I gave it a 4/5 in sotry and narration. So how dare I talk about the other reviewers. Maybe because someone legitimatly compared this book to Jane The Virgin. When it’s so not even.

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