I can’t have Elijah because I’ve chosen God instead. I can’t have him because I broke his heart five years ago because he’s now engaged to someone else-someone kind and dependable who deserves his whiskey eyes, his soft mouth, his fierce intellect.

I can’t have him because he’s my older brother’s best friend. As much as I wanted to skim to the smut (which I knew would be good), Simone told a rich story of spirituality, loss, mental illness, sexuality and redemptive love that made a truly fantastical premise believable.ĪND she referenced Richard Rohr, my favorite Franciscan. I didn’t believe it was possible.īut she brought me through it. He’d had another older brother coax a postulant away from her impending vows in order to make babies with him instead. Lord have mercy.Īnd as ready as I was, I couldn’t get passed the initial premise: how in the world would it be possible for an already-in-love Aiden Bell to leave his life and his relationship to join a monastery? He’d had an older brother leave the priesthood for the love of his life. The third installment in the Priest series promised to follow the playboy millionaire Bell brother, Aiden, who in our last glimpse of him in Sinner got caught with his pants down and with his brother’s best friend, Elijah. When Saint hit my Kindle library earlier in September, I was ready to get down on my knees. However, what I love the most about them, despite the undeniably hot smut, is the ease with which Simone incorporates spirituality and sexuality, a feat of Tiffany Reisz-ian proportions. In other words, the world of the Priest books may seem like they aren’t fantasy, but they definitely are. Perhaps because the idea of having a hot priest leave his parish for you, or being with a sinner so hot that he gets you to renounce your plans for the convent SEEMS attainable, but may in fact be just as fantastical as her re-imagining of Arthurian legend in the US political system. You don’t need me to tell you to read everything that Sierra Simone has penned because you have good taste, and Priest has been in your top five erotic romances since 2015 like a good little lamb.ĭespite being an undeniable fan of fantasy novels and magical realism, Simone’s more sedate and realistic Priest series about the Kansas City family of hot Catholic brothers is my favorite of all her books.

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