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Sinners And Saints (2012)

by Victoria Christopher Murray(Favorite Author)

4.42 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1451608152 (ISBN13: 9781451608151)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Touchstone

review 1: Money, drugs, power... the Baptist Church. The husbands of Rachel Adams and Jasmine Larson are running against each other to become the next president of the American Baptist Coalition, one of the most powerful religious organizations in the country. Both ladies want their side to win and they will go to any lengths to make it happen: smear campaigns, bribery, and sending the other to jail are just a few. Will all of this be worth it or will it ruin them as well as their husbands?A book showing that even religion isn't completely immune to drama, especially when the congregants have sketchy pasts. More tame than the traditional Urban Fiction genre but still scandalous for the Christian Fiction genre, this would meet the needs of a risky reader.
review 2: When I... more finished this book a couple of months ago, I closed it with a better understanding of why a lot of people don't trust quote-unquote 'church folks.' I've never been to any kind of church convention or conference or anything but I imagine that this book was a pretty fair representation (even if slightly over-dramatized) of what goes on there. The cattiness and underhandedness that went on in this book between the first ladies in the name of promoting their husbands was amazing, especially given that the husbands wanted no part in it. I wasn't familiar with the characters Jasmine Larson or Rachel Adams, as I haven't read the other books they were featured in, and it kind of made me want to read those books as well. I could drone on and on about the storyline and the plot and the characters and all of that, but I'll make this review something of an anomaly among the others I've written and just say that you will not be disappointed if you read this book. The two authors, Victoria Christopher Murray and ReShonda Tate Billingsley, are excellent and masters at flushing out a story and creating characters that you can picture in your head as your reading. I had a clear image of Hosea Larson, Pastor Griffith...even as I'm writing this, I'm flipping back through the book and actually having to stop myself from getting caught back up in it. This is a book that I will be reading more than once, which is a sign of a good read for me ('cause believe me, I have several books that I will never pick up again unless it's to give them away). I was a tad surprised by how it ended, but almost pleasantly, because it showed great maturity on the part of one of the women that I really didn't see coming. She finally put her husband first, when all throughout the book it seemed like she, along with the other First Lady, were all about their own selfish motives all the while justifying it by saying they were doing it all for their husbands. Never mind that everything they did went against the things their husbands preached about, but I digress. All in all, read the book. :) less

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