“The First Love Story” by Bruce Feiler

book review by Riley Burnham 11/7/2026

wellllll, it was alright — the gist is using Adam & Eve as an archetype for ideal love, & then sort of hamfisting that on a full-length book 😂

we get things like equality rather than hierarchy, collaboration, types of love, & some biblical discourse, some of which was at least interesting [like Eve never dies, who initiates what, etc.]

hard to say i took much away from it, thinking it’s kind of a self-help money-grab [considering its large publisher & subject appeal], as i repeatedly thought it blathery, w/ at least a decent summary at the end