After Eden

This was a gift to me from last year's Secret Santa exchange at Reddit, hence, it's a very memorable book. For one thing, I don't have a lot of “bookish” friends that would go out of their way to buy books to make you read their recommendations, so this was kind of like that to me. I appreciate the effort of gifting a book you really enjoyed for other people to experience it.

Unfortunately, this book wasn't for me (sorry, Secret Santa!).

I didn't enjoy the story because it seems very simple and way overdone on a lot of TV series, movies, short stories on the web, etc. Whichever format that is, you'd see it coming from miles away.

The story was about a girl and a boy, who each have their own cliques, fell in love, grew outside of their circle of friends, and said friends then plot out how to break them up, and dot, dot, dot.

Even the art was.. okay, I guess? I mean it's definitely good but it's not what I personally like. It didn't seem to have a personal signature of the artist, as if I could see some old comics in his art. I could be wrong in my judgement though, because I've not read a whole lot of comics on my part. But something about it feels like reading a comic in a newspaper, like what I was reading back when I was a kid.

In the end, I wouldn't recommend this book; but I would keep my copy just for its sentimental value to me. Still, it was a good read though. I expect it would be a “feel good” story but, no.