I originally requested this title thinking it was a memoir, and as I kept reading it took a lot to remember that it wasn't. Because the book is written in Abram's voice it feels real - real enough to make you emphasize with him and his misdeeds. Reading Abram's journey was beautiful - his struggle with his vocation was constant.

Couldn't engage with the story. I just found it too simple for me. I thought it was going to give me some type of the female version of a hard-on but didn't. Got bored.

Thank you to Netgalley and Doubleday Books for the E-ARC in exchange of this honest review.

Okay, so when I came upon the synopsis of this book on Netgalley, I immediately requested it. Something about it sounded so fascinating to me. I do not enjoy books with a very religious theme to them. But add in a priest who has sworn celibacy, who in fact is anything but celibate. I'm in. However..

I only found this book to be okay. It did have a lot of potential to be exceptional. In the synopsis it talks about the financial crisis and "The Great Blackout of 77" yet none of that was really mentioned. There was A LOT of religious talk and references, psalms, passages, religious music references, and then when those weren't occurring, it was about sex. I wanted him to renounce, I wanted him to do the right thing for his parish, and for Lisa. I felt like he was a lying, conniving snake, who only cared about himself. The side of him that loved God, and the side of him that loved Lisa. However I don't believe he truly loved anyone, but himself. 

Overall, I was let down by this book. That's not to say that someone else won't love this book. After-all this is my own personal opinion, and because I do not enjoy books with religious themes, its more than half the reason I did not entirely enjoy this one. So you may very well like this one, and understand it a bit more.