The Fruit Tree by Samir Ahmed
Rating: 3/5
Spice: 0/5
Plot: 4/5
Primary Genre: Romantic Suspense
Blurb: Adam is your typical shy guy in school, with no thoughts towards romance outside of his daydreaming. However, that all changes one day, when he gets saved by an unlikely Eve. Eve is one of the more popular girls in school, but maybe he had misjudged her. Rescued from her boyfriend, Adam can't help but admire Eve. They quickly become good friends and the rest, as they say, is history.
Follow them as they grow from teenagers to adults and watch how their relationship evolves with them. As they explore themselves and figure out who they are, their love will change. With the assistance of their parents, who would love for them to be together, will it be enough? Will they end up on the same page? Or will the chapters they write forever be out of sync?
This is not the same Biblical tale you're familiar with. She wasn't made from his rib, and he had his own garden. With no god to guide them, nor a devil to deceive them, how would they envisage Eden? They were left alone to be victims of their hearts and hostages to their minds. He was the forbidden fruit, but would she bite?
My Thoughts:
While I liked the plot of this book, it was so incredibly wordy that I am still unsure if the author was trying to meet a word count, had assistance from AI, or had something to prove to someone with their vocabulary. This story definitely could have been told in less pages, it felt overly descriptive and melodramatic at times. The narrator portion at the beginning of each chapter is confusing. There’s nothing to differentiate the narrator/storyteller’s convo from the story that they're telling. Rose’s character pops up with zero explanation and it isn’t believable that she’s been in Adam’s life this whole time and hasn’t been mentioned-especially when the book is discussing their history. The story also starts out incredibly slow with nothing much really happening in the story until almost halfway into the book-other than the characters experiencing feelings. All that being said, the ending is gloriously twisted and fucked up if you can make it there. The plot/storyline is impeccable, I just would have preferred it to be less wordy.
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