It is a stereotype of the Church that it is gloomy and sin focused. Any priest who has gone through a modern formation would certainly be aware of the focus on this by the Catholic Church. Catholics should be aware that God loves them and wants them to come to him and will receive love and forgiveness. In a way, it’s easier to dwell on sin and guilt than it is to dwell on love and forgiveness.” Ironic, considering that this is the exact purpose of Sacrament of Reconciliation aka Confession. God wants you as you are - stumbling, sinning, confused…This won’t come easy to us Catholics. It is the fact that Tyler’s conflict doesn’t feel real.įor example, at one point he goes to his congregation and states that “God is bigger than our sins. And the denigration is not the attempt to be edgy and have characters do incredibly blasphemous acts. The unreality about and denigration of the Catholic religion made this book unreadable for me and it took me weeks to get through it. Priests do leave the priesthood, but this hero strikes me as someone who doesn’t really have a deep spiritual life that would be expected from someone who went through the formation for the priesthood. Unfortunately, this book strikes me as someone who thinks they know about Catholicism and thus has done no research into the actual conflicts that arise when a priest falls in love. If an author is going to set up a conflict, there should be something real about it if the book pretends to take place in contemporary society. Tyler doesn’t seem like a well formed character. If I had started with this book, I wouldn’t have read any further. I’ve read other books by Simone that were really good. It was not edgy, it did not depict any real conflict on Tyler’s part, and it didn’t even deliver a particularly good romance. OPINION: This book disappointed me on all levels. THE STORY: Tyler Bell is a priest who has his world changed when Poppy Danforth comes into his confessional one day. I didn’t find any connection between these characters. The “priest” in this book knows nothing about being a priest and never acts the part at any part in this book.
FINAL DECISION: Shock content but very shallow.
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