Comfort Me with Apples

“Sophia is enveloped by the herd of everyone she loves and there is a waterfall of ice cream and everyone has a spoonful for her to try, a hundred colors, as sweet as cold kisses.”

some of the prose here is very pretty in its simplicity, yet it also got a bit pretentious for me at times with its metaphors and clichéd phrasing. i also did not particularly enjoy the “twist” of incorporating the Garden of Eden into the story, it didn't really fit and was an unsatisfying resolution to me.

i enjoyed some plotpoints and how they were written (the finger-bone, the heron and the window, the play written about Sophia) but ultimately although they successfully evoked a foreboding sort of atmosphere, they didn't really end up clicking together for me.