Was lucky and got galleys for the new George Saunders short story collection Liberation Day, and the new Adam Sternbergh novel The Eden Test.
Saunders collection is good. Nine stories but only 4 that have never been published. My favorite was Ghoul which you can read free on the New Yorker website. The titular story, Liberation Day was also strong. I liked them all, but I am admittedly a Saunders fanboy. I'd say if you like Saunders you'll like the collection and if you don't there's nothing here that's going to move the needle for you.
The Eden Test was a cool idea and I could see it as a 4 episode Netflix series. As a novel it didn't work for me as well as I wanted it to. I love Sternbergh's stuff.and went into this one really wanting to like it. I feel like his editor let him down. Lots of instances where I could feel the chapters had been written at far different times and the editor had missed that Sternbergh hammered a point in the previous chapter and then reintroduces it in the next as though you'd never heard it. It comes across as a dumbing down at times which is not something Sternbergh has done in previous novels. The book ended up feeling like a good idea but relied too heavily on deus ex machina and I found myself rolling my eyes with increasing frequency. Fun, but not up to Sternbergh''s normal high standard imo.
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