Reviews

Complete Faith by Sue Brown

kristinafh's review against another edition

3.0

More like a 3.5

Liked Noah and Tommy.

Liked having continuation of characters from first book.

My main issue was that the book seemed more like a string of short stories (instead on one main outline).

On to book 3!

nicola949's review against another edition

This is the story of Tommy, a young man with no sexual experience, who is terribly fearful of his parent's reaction if he came out. He develops strong feelings for Noah, the pastor who is also gay.

There is a strong theme of acceptance - both acceptance by family and acceptance by the community. Tommy needs to decide whether having a relationship with Noah is worth risking coming out and the fact that Noah won't progress their relationship until he does, spurs things on.

Noah shares his coming out experience - it isn't easy, no matter who you are.
"But you're a pastor, a good man," Tommy protested. "I wasn't then, I was just a kid needing support."

As in the first book of the series (which I enjoyed more), the story also focuses on the townsfolk and their homophobia. The men need to deal with threat and violence.
"Tommy, I'm a black, gay pastor running a gay church in the middle of the Bible Belt. We get threats all the time. Kinda goes with the territory."

The story was quite enjoyable. I was worried that it may delve too deeply into religion, given one of the main characters was a pastor but the story never took on a 'preachy' quality which was good.

jess_readsromance's review against another edition

3.0

Beautiful story. I enjoyed this one slightly more than the first. This is shaping up to be a great little series of books.

lauraadriana78's review

3.0

Sooooo ummm I liked this book less than I thought I would. Not that it was bad, it wasn't it. I was just expecting to love this book as much as I loved the first book in this series, and I sort of didn't. The big thing for me was that I never fell in love with the characters, Noah and Tommy were fine they just weren't amazing like Simon and Luke from [b:Morning Report|9856022|Morning Report|Sue Brown|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1291783826s/9856022.jpg|14747170].

So Tommy is a hand at the Lost Cow Ranch, he has had a crush on his boss Luke forever, but now he has his eyes on a local pastor Noah, who has been running a church all about love and acceptance. Noah is openly gay and also clearly interested in Tommy. Even though Tommy is certain that he is gay, his parents are not exactly progressive people, so he cannot bring himself to come out to them.

Eventually Noah makes his feelings clear but asks that Tommy talk to his parents since he won't hide who they are to each other. Tommy does what he has to and they being their relationshiup.

Noah and Tommy were loving and everything I just didn't get so invested in them, there were also really confusing tangents that just didn't make sense to me.

Like why was Tommy's crush on Luke such a big deal if Tommy was totally in Love with Noah, and what was that whole thing about a possible orgy, I mean I'm not a prude but the idea of a pastor wanting to get it on with three other dudes especially when they all live in Central Texas gossip central, well I don't know that was weird...Not that it happened, which was weirder, because why bring it up?

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Overall this book was mostly good, but not awesome like the first one.