Reviews with content warning for Pedophilia - Priest

Wow this was 🔥🔥🔥. A former Dom who is now a priest and a former stripper who enters his confessional. I am sure you can imagine where this is going…

Obviously the taboo romance elements and spice are 👩🏻‍🍳💋. I give it 4 1/2 🌶️. Though I almost DNF’d because the self recrimination at the beginning was…a lot.

But that is not the most interesting thing about this book.

I was baptized Catholic though never practiced, and later baptized again in a non-denominational Christian church. I do not currently identify as Christian and though I recognize certain spiritual elements to my life, they are more tied to nature and community.

And we all know there are plenty of bad things about the Catholic Church, many of which figure into the plot of this novel. But I have to say that the way that the author writes about Catholicism, reconciliation, ritual, and the presence of capital G God, is really quite beautiful.

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edietz22's review

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dark emotional hopeful reflective relaxing tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

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hanschub's review

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dark emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

had to push myself to finish this book because i hate dnf’ing. this book was 98% single pov and, in my opinion, lacked a storyline. i understood the concept, but struggled to feel the connection between the characters. i’m a spice lover and even though there was plenty of spice in this book, i wasn’t feeling it at all. i was excited for this prior to reading it and i’m disappointed that i didn’t enjoy it as much as other people did. i’ve heard the next two in the series are somewhat better, so i might give those a try. given the concept and the whole priest thing, i think this could’ve been written better / gone a different way to be more enjoyable.

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purplegurgles's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.25

There’s smut, there’s erotica and there is porn. This is porn. I don’t mean that in a good way. The plot held promise, but the story was rushed and the only written form of intimacy or affection they had for each other came from sex and all of those read like porn scripts. I liked the way the spirituality was written. As an atheist, it was written well enough that even I understood the feeling. I also liked the ending in a way.

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frantically's review

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dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

piper: sorry daddy i've been naughty
tyler: for the last time, it's "forgive me father for i have sinned"

Goddd (literally) this was so messy 😭 but I still loved it! I went into this thinking I'd need to go to confession immediately afterwards but it actually included so many fascinating and important questions and conflicts that plague the modern Catholic church. Why *do* we still uphold celibacy? What even is sin? Can consensual love be a sin when Jesus taught us to, above all, love eachother?

You can clearly tell that Sierra grew up Catholic and what I especially appreciated was that while this was erotica, it wasn't erotica at its core. While some of the plot points went a bit too far for my tastes (like using annoited oil as lube...), most topics were still handle with care and respect even if the author was no longer a practising Catholic. She also included scenes where characters obviously feel God or His presence and I loved those.

Especially towards the end, the relationship did get so messy and there was so much miscommunication but I loved Poppy and Tyler enough to see beyond that even though I was really annoyed with them at points (looking at you, Tyler). I think a few sex scenes could've been cut so the ending wasn't as rushed but I still had such a great time with this book and hey, it actually inspired me to get my rosary out again – amazing what smut can do, huh?

TLDR; I actually think there's nothing more attractive than a man willing to devote his entire life to God so I was helpless from the start

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ambercunningham's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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hanreads__'s review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Forbidden Love✔️
Catholic Representation✔️
Boy Obsessed✔️

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"𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲, 𝗜 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝘇𝘇𝗶𝗹𝘆, 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗹𝘆. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲... 𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵."

For starters, for anyone to think this story will not be about a horny priest but a priest simply falling in love, WHAT?! The synopsis is very clear and you should not expect ANYTHING other than a whole load of smut and a forbidden romance that you want to work.

Now, I want to say thank you to whatever God decided to put Priest up for free via Kindle for a set amount of days… because of you, I was able to read this book a lot sooner that I thought I’d be able to.

I read Priest as a buddy read with my best friend and we were both blown away. I’ve never read a book that delves into religion, but I really love how the religion was focused on in this story. It was not only interesting to read the prayers and lines from the Bible, but it was also interesting to see how things work if you are someone who is a Priest. I feel that the religion playing a big part in the story allowed for more development and strayed away from stories that focus on someone instantly giving up on something they believe in as soon as they meet someone they’re attracted to. I was pleased to see how much Tyler’s faith meant to him, and that it was a hard hard hard choice for him to decide on what to do.

The backstory to why Tyler became a Priest was mentioned a few times, and I really like how it was spoken about. The back story is something that happens in the real world and isn’t often heard about, I feel as though Sierra raised awareness in some sort of way, and for that, I think she’s an incredible woman.

Poppy is one of the strongest females I have come across in a story, her strength is admirable, and I love that she loves Tyler for how much he loves and cares about his faith. Not only does she want to be a better person, but she wants to be someone who finds her own path. She’s not perfect, but at least she doesn’t act as though she is. While I had so much anger at Poppy at one point during the story, I understand why she did what she did, and I just want her to be happy.

Finally, this is the SPICIEST book I have read. I love the BDSM/degrading representation, I love how it’s made clear that while it’s okay in relationships, it’s only okay if both parties are consenting and talk about things properly. The fact that Sierra makes it clear through her characters and before the story starts is something that I love and I think other authors should take note of it and follow that line.

All in all, I absolutely LOVED this story, I SQUEALED at certain points, and I’d let Tyler take me on an alter any day. If you’re still reading this review, please stop what you’re doing and go and purchase this book SOMEHOW.

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