Acts of Service

Acts of Service is a daring and provocative debut. A quick and, to some extent, an easy read.

Eve is a young bisexual woman that prefers women. She gets sexually involved with a straight couple, Nathan and Olivia. Even though she is at first attracted to Olivia, she is later mainly involved with Nathan. Nathan’s acts are often on the edge of manipulation, but both Eve and Olivia are obsessed with him.

For me, all MCs are pretty unlikeable. A novel consists mainly of conversations and considerations of sex, sexuality, and desire. Maybe I would also expect some moral dilemma, but there was not much of this. The novel raises some interesting questions, but they often overlap, and sometimes it turns out confusing. In the end, I expected a more thorough examination of some themes.

This novel, at first, drew me in, and I liked it. But then came parts I didn’t like so much and some that even bored me.

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Details:

• author: Lillian Fishman
  
• full title: Acts of Service
  
• genre: literary fiction
• format/type: bookfiction
  
• topics: #sex #sexuality #desire
  
• publisher: Europa Editions (UK)
  
• publish date: 07.07.2022
  
• pages: 224
  

My Rating of the Book:

• content: 💙💙💙

About the Author:

Lillian Fishman was born in 1994 and lives in New York. She received her MFA from NYU, where she was a Jill Davis Fellow.