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The First Sin: South of Eden
Lucifer Returns to Eden
Lucifer is unceremoniously yanked out of Hell by his Father so he can return to his old job in the Garden of Eden. When he arrives, broken, battered, and bleeding, he falls into the arms of Eve who is unsure about seeing her old lover again as are the people now living in a dying paradise.
Tasked with returning the Sacred Trees of Life and Knowledge to flourishing bounty once more, Lucifer struggles to learn his new place in his old home. Yet, he hasn't been placed there solely to tend the Garden. His son, Cain, is on the way with murder and destruction on his mind.
Having lived, cursed by God, for eons, Cain Enoch has made quite a name for himself and amassed a fortune that would make even his Grandfather envious and with it he'll stop at nothing to find Eden and destroy. Why? So he can finally die even though it means taking the Earth, Heaven, and Hell with him.
Lucifer is unceremoniously yanked out of Hell by his Father so he can return to his old job in the Garden of Eden. When he arrives, broken, battered, and bleeding, he falls into the arms of Eve who is unsure about seeing her old lover again as are the people now living in a dying paradise.
Tasked with returning the Sacred Trees of Life and Knowledge to flourishing bounty once more, Lucifer struggles to learn his new place in his old home. Yet, he hasn't been placed there solely to tend the Garden. His son, Cain, is on the way with murder and destruction on his mind.
Having lived, cursed by God, for eons, Cain Enoch has made quite a name for himself and amassed a fortune that would make even his Grandfather envious and with it he'll stop at nothing to find Eden and destroy. Why? So he can finally die even though it means taking the Earth, Heaven, and Hell with him.
391 pages, Unknown Binding
Published August 18, 2021
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Lisa Beth Darling
42 books439 followers Award winning author, Lisa Beth Darling has a unique perspective on life leaving her unafraid to delve into darker places other may fear to tread. In doing so, she masterfully shines glorious light on the stormy events that shape, test, & define human character.
Ranging from dark & thrilling to heartwarming & inspirational, Lisa’s stories are rich with secrets, lust, betrayal, and sometimes rage. They may keep you awake into the wee hours of the morning cheering, weeping, and trapped in suspense as her heroes and heroines have their love tested by demons who reside within and without.
Lisa Beth Darling is 57 years-old, the mother of two adult daughters, grandmother to two granddaughters and wife to her husband, Roy, for the last 37 years. She lives and writes in her hometown of New London, CT.
Early influences were Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, Harold Robins, Jacqueline
Susan and VC Andrews.
Ranging from dark & thrilling to heartwarming & inspirational, Lisa’s stories are rich with secrets, lust, betrayal, and sometimes rage. They may keep you awake into the wee hours of the morning cheering, weeping, and trapped in suspense as her heroes and heroines have their love tested by demons who reside within and without.
Lisa Beth Darling is 57 years-old, the mother of two adult daughters, grandmother to two granddaughters and wife to her husband, Roy, for the last 37 years. She lives and writes in her hometown of New London, CT.
Early influences were Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, Harold Robins, Jacqueline
Susan and VC Andrews.
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September 8, 2021
Brilliant Creativity
A legendary story turned into a creative, imaginative, humorous, thought provoking, and alternatively plausible milestone.
First thing let me state (give a lil advice) before you dive into this awesome book, DO NOT go into it being critical on the biblical account side. Leave your religion at the door like you do when you’re reading that erotic paranormal or erotica romance story.
I freakin’ loved this story!
I loved how the author combined the Olympian Gods and the Christian God into one Deity family. All brothers and sisters in a competition of creativity. In my opinion, Now that’s a very intriguing and plausible concept especially since everyone knows in the biblical sense, God is a jealous God. Which is what makes this a plausible story if you ask why the jealousy and of whom it’s geared towards? LOL
OK, Enough of the psychological BS. Getting back to the story I couldn’t help myself in dissecting and making notation regarding parts of it.
The Time Line is a smooth transition from the beginning of creation to the modern day era. Through the incorporation of the growing pains of technology and pandemics to include current presidential politics, it made the story flow right into the current reality.
The characters are humorously creative to the point you either love them, hate them, feel sorry for them, or wish them dead. LOL
Adam for one gives you a clear vision of a half ape half cave man with crap for brains. A useless brutal pig.
Eve on the other hand is not only beautiful but is born with a worldly spark of common sense and thanks to the beautiful Angel Lucifer her spark grew. She was cool and collected even after Gods Curse on her. Her only weakness was choosing between two of the most sexiest men on the planet.
I loved her most of the time as a strong independent woman but it got irritating with the way she treated Lucifer after years of separation and then finally having the chance to rekindle what was taken from them. I felt she took advantage of him and she owed him everything. But she had Ares and figured she could have her cake and eat her pie too. I literally wanted to slap her a few times especially when her unexpected news of new life came. I did not like that scene but hey carry on. Funny though how Ares became like a puppy dog starving for its mommas milk and would bend over backwards to please her.
Lucifer, the beautiful Angel, Gods favorite son once, and father to Eves children had me falling in love with him immediately. After being portrayed as evil just to make God look good and to hide the truth about what mistakes god was making, Lucifer only wanted to see the world and the things he was accused of doing.
The psychological twist of Lucifer the devil gives one a pondering questionable reason as to the why he’d ever turn away from God. In reality we all know what we’d do after being mistreated, lied to, cheated, scorned, hurt, or witnessing cruelty on someone you loved. We’d turn our hearts from such deceit and wickedness or even go as far as killing an idiot that committed such heinous acts.
I honestly loved Lucifer’s character out of all the characters in the book. He quickly became my favorite because he was intelligent, beautiful, sexy, wisdom rolled off him in all things, lovable, caring and understanding towards humans and their humanity to the point it was more than God himself cared. He understood the equality between man and woman which is a big plus for me. Eve would of never gained her knowledge or wisdom if not for him. For that, Lucifer was the man!
Ares the thorn in Lucifer’s side so to speak is always portrayed as the strong, powerful, and arrogant sexy piece of eye candy in any story. In this story he was almost irritating being Eve’s lover - the love sick puppy.
The author does a great job showing the animosity and jealousy between Ares and Lucifer. The thought of them even coming to an agreement of maturity seemed impossible but in the end, the happiness of the one woman they both loved conquered a tolerable friendship. Hard to imagine the God of War taming down for anyone.
God’s character, aka “CHUCK”. LOL
You have no idea how many times I’ve said “what the F¥€k Chuck?” Out loud. LOL
Humorous as that is, God’s character is finally exposed with humanistic issues. The major one is “JEALOUSY “.
Sibling Rivalry don’t even cut it close especially since most of the rivalry was one sided and done by the twisted evil deceitful spiteful egomaniac God himself. His selfish attitude was only hungry for one thing - “POWER”.
The masterpiece of Gods demeanor was justified with all the tricks and manipulation he pulled on his own creation throughout the story.
I didn’t really hate this character. I hated his actions and I felt satisfied with the Karma he got in the end.
Gaia the beautiful sister of God, sweet mother of earth and Lady of the lake was the true nurturer of the Garden of Eden. For such a minor character she turned into the most wisest and most significant character for the survival of human kind and the Garden of Eden.
Gabriel the all faithful Angelic daddy’s boy, true traitor amongst the mist. The Best Actor Award goes to the clueless gullible blinded fool. This character was a necessary one because of the games God played to get things his way. He needed pawns to do his bidding. Pawns either led or fell. At least in the end he saved face and made the right choice.
Cain Enoch, aka “CAIN”, the murderer of Able, well that would depend on which side of the tale you believed. I loved this character as well. His demeanor was strong, wise, revengeful, yet starving for the love and approval of those he loved and respected. Regardless of God’s curse, he prevailed. In my opinion, God’s curse was worse than murder.
Actions and redemption of deeds replaces the past in my opinion. Revenge keeps the hate alive sure but Cain’s success in his modern day world regenerated the good for humanity that gave him a moral and ethical purpose. Especially when he finds true love. Love does crazy things to a soul. It forgives even a murderer.
I enjoyed reading about Cain and his successful business. I started understanding his reasoning behind his revenge and was thrilled with his new found self once he realized he was in love and was willing to sacrifice and throw away all his built up plans for revenge against his mother and destroying Eden all for his one love Jessica.
Jessica Jackson, aka “Ariel”, beautiful Angel and God’s daughter.
She starts out as God’s pawn to do his bidding and spy as she put in place motions to distract Cain.
From the freedoms of living amongst humanity and finding herself falling in love with Cain, the choice of sides was easy for her to choose.
I loved this character as well. Another strong independent and beautiful woman. Her growth in love opened her eyes to the truth. Her influence and guidance made Cain do good in the world. It changed him. I hated the ending and my soul cried out for her pain. I wanted revenge afterwards.
Overall, stories told through out history whether they be just rumors or just one incident always have a smidgen of truth to it depending on which lie you want to believe. Alternative truths are always plausible. This story just gives a darker version of a possibility of the “What if”.. only the outcome behind the scenic actions will reveal the visionary future.
The characters all worked towards one goal and that was to save humanity in its righteous form. All but one that is. God’s goal was a end game to his creation and to selfishly have the few in his celestial prison like in the Garden of Eden serving only his purpose and in our reality of how we have forced restrictions and controlled environments.
Not all of what you see and hear is truth. The book serves as lessons learned in the Alternatives. Live life to the fullest because you never know when a wolf in sheep’s clothing is going to end your happy life. That person you are madly in love with could very well be that evil doer.
So grab em (life) by the P¥$$y. You can do anything.
(LOL, that pun was for author)
Best lessons are you are your own god, make your own choices, rule your own life in whatever righteousness you care to live by. Second best lesson is Your actions counter your deeds or misgivings. And the third final lesson the book offers is Chaos and Oblivion don’t give a crap one way or another, the universe will swallow you up in the end.
Awesome Read! Definitely recommend for open minded individuals.
NOTE: this book was given to me in exchange for an honest review.
A legendary story turned into a creative, imaginative, humorous, thought provoking, and alternatively plausible milestone.
First thing let me state (give a lil advice) before you dive into this awesome book, DO NOT go into it being critical on the biblical account side. Leave your religion at the door like you do when you’re reading that erotic paranormal or erotica romance story.
I freakin’ loved this story!
I loved how the author combined the Olympian Gods and the Christian God into one Deity family. All brothers and sisters in a competition of creativity. In my opinion, Now that’s a very intriguing and plausible concept especially since everyone knows in the biblical sense, God is a jealous God. Which is what makes this a plausible story if you ask why the jealousy and of whom it’s geared towards? LOL
OK, Enough of the psychological BS. Getting back to the story I couldn’t help myself in dissecting and making notation regarding parts of it.
The Time Line is a smooth transition from the beginning of creation to the modern day era. Through the incorporation of the growing pains of technology and pandemics to include current presidential politics, it made the story flow right into the current reality.
The characters are humorously creative to the point you either love them, hate them, feel sorry for them, or wish them dead. LOL
Adam for one gives you a clear vision of a half ape half cave man with crap for brains. A useless brutal pig.
Eve on the other hand is not only beautiful but is born with a worldly spark of common sense and thanks to the beautiful Angel Lucifer her spark grew. She was cool and collected even after Gods Curse on her. Her only weakness was choosing between two of the most sexiest men on the planet.
I loved her most of the time as a strong independent woman but it got irritating with the way she treated Lucifer after years of separation and then finally having the chance to rekindle what was taken from them. I felt she took advantage of him and she owed him everything. But she had Ares and figured she could have her cake and eat her pie too. I literally wanted to slap her a few times especially when her unexpected news of new life came. I did not like that scene but hey carry on. Funny though how Ares became like a puppy dog starving for its mommas milk and would bend over backwards to please her.
Lucifer, the beautiful Angel, Gods favorite son once, and father to Eves children had me falling in love with him immediately. After being portrayed as evil just to make God look good and to hide the truth about what mistakes god was making, Lucifer only wanted to see the world and the things he was accused of doing.
The psychological twist of Lucifer the devil gives one a pondering questionable reason as to the why he’d ever turn away from God. In reality we all know what we’d do after being mistreated, lied to, cheated, scorned, hurt, or witnessing cruelty on someone you loved. We’d turn our hearts from such deceit and wickedness or even go as far as killing an idiot that committed such heinous acts.
I honestly loved Lucifer’s character out of all the characters in the book. He quickly became my favorite because he was intelligent, beautiful, sexy, wisdom rolled off him in all things, lovable, caring and understanding towards humans and their humanity to the point it was more than God himself cared. He understood the equality between man and woman which is a big plus for me. Eve would of never gained her knowledge or wisdom if not for him. For that, Lucifer was the man!
Ares the thorn in Lucifer’s side so to speak is always portrayed as the strong, powerful, and arrogant sexy piece of eye candy in any story. In this story he was almost irritating being Eve’s lover - the love sick puppy.
The author does a great job showing the animosity and jealousy between Ares and Lucifer. The thought of them even coming to an agreement of maturity seemed impossible but in the end, the happiness of the one woman they both loved conquered a tolerable friendship. Hard to imagine the God of War taming down for anyone.
God’s character, aka “CHUCK”. LOL
You have no idea how many times I’ve said “what the F¥€k Chuck?” Out loud. LOL
Humorous as that is, God’s character is finally exposed with humanistic issues. The major one is “JEALOUSY “.
Sibling Rivalry don’t even cut it close especially since most of the rivalry was one sided and done by the twisted evil deceitful spiteful egomaniac God himself. His selfish attitude was only hungry for one thing - “POWER”.
The masterpiece of Gods demeanor was justified with all the tricks and manipulation he pulled on his own creation throughout the story.
I didn’t really hate this character. I hated his actions and I felt satisfied with the Karma he got in the end.
Gaia the beautiful sister of God, sweet mother of earth and Lady of the lake was the true nurturer of the Garden of Eden. For such a minor character she turned into the most wisest and most significant character for the survival of human kind and the Garden of Eden.
Gabriel the all faithful Angelic daddy’s boy, true traitor amongst the mist. The Best Actor Award goes to the clueless gullible blinded fool. This character was a necessary one because of the games God played to get things his way. He needed pawns to do his bidding. Pawns either led or fell. At least in the end he saved face and made the right choice.
Cain Enoch, aka “CAIN”, the murderer of Able, well that would depend on which side of the tale you believed. I loved this character as well. His demeanor was strong, wise, revengeful, yet starving for the love and approval of those he loved and respected. Regardless of God’s curse, he prevailed. In my opinion, God’s curse was worse than murder.
Actions and redemption of deeds replaces the past in my opinion. Revenge keeps the hate alive sure but Cain’s success in his modern day world regenerated the good for humanity that gave him a moral and ethical purpose. Especially when he finds true love. Love does crazy things to a soul. It forgives even a murderer.
I enjoyed reading about Cain and his successful business. I started understanding his reasoning behind his revenge and was thrilled with his new found self once he realized he was in love and was willing to sacrifice and throw away all his built up plans for revenge against his mother and destroying Eden all for his one love Jessica.
Jessica Jackson, aka “Ariel”, beautiful Angel and God’s daughter.
She starts out as God’s pawn to do his bidding and spy as she put in place motions to distract Cain.
From the freedoms of living amongst humanity and finding herself falling in love with Cain, the choice of sides was easy for her to choose.
I loved this character as well. Another strong independent and beautiful woman. Her growth in love opened her eyes to the truth. Her influence and guidance made Cain do good in the world. It changed him. I hated the ending and my soul cried out for her pain. I wanted revenge afterwards.
Overall, stories told through out history whether they be just rumors or just one incident always have a smidgen of truth to it depending on which lie you want to believe. Alternative truths are always plausible. This story just gives a darker version of a possibility of the “What if”.. only the outcome behind the scenic actions will reveal the visionary future.
The characters all worked towards one goal and that was to save humanity in its righteous form. All but one that is. God’s goal was a end game to his creation and to selfishly have the few in his celestial prison like in the Garden of Eden serving only his purpose and in our reality of how we have forced restrictions and controlled environments.
Not all of what you see and hear is truth. The book serves as lessons learned in the Alternatives. Live life to the fullest because you never know when a wolf in sheep’s clothing is going to end your happy life. That person you are madly in love with could very well be that evil doer.
So grab em (life) by the P¥$$y. You can do anything.
(LOL, that pun was for author)
Best lessons are you are your own god, make your own choices, rule your own life in whatever righteousness you care to live by. Second best lesson is Your actions counter your deeds or misgivings. And the third final lesson the book offers is Chaos and Oblivion don’t give a crap one way or another, the universe will swallow you up in the end.
Awesome Read! Definitely recommend for open minded individuals.
NOTE: this book was given to me in exchange for an honest review.
August 22, 2021
First, let me say I was raised Catholic, and I'm a practicing Pagan. My interest was definitely peaked by the blurb, having grown up rather familiar with the major biblical stories. I thought Darling handled it all wonderfully, bringing new life and perspective to familiar characters from (mostly) Biblical myth. If you aren't Christian, chances are, you'll love this. If you are, I suggest going in with an open mind. I definitely intend to check out more of Darling's work in the future!
October 2, 2021
Lisa Darling has written a fun, original book with characters I loved. So why the low rating? EDITING!!! So vitally important. The run on sentences and, ironically, Overuse. Of. Periods. made reading frustrating. As I said, I loved the characters but their development was sporadic and choppy. This book has great potential but falls short.
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