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Forgive Me Father by Katerina St Clair
0.25
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I wanted to love this book. Priests in forbidden, angsty romance? Yes, fucking please. 

This is advertised as a dark romance, "darker than Haunting/Hunting Adeline," and I don't know if I'm just jaded or what, but this wasn't dark. It was hardly romance. Insta-lust, basically insta-love. The writing is so bad it feels like AI (which seems to be on brand for the author.) There are references to things that didn't happen at all. There are plot lines opened that never resurface. There are disjointed scenes that make no sense--on one page he has her strip tease, and in the same scene two pages later, he's pulling off her clothes that she specifically already removed. 

The only character I liked in this whole book was Hannah. 

There is a lot of art throughout this book, but it's all inconsistent, AI generated garbage.

The names are unimaginative and the plot was stereotypical and predictable. 

If the author paid for someone to edit this book, she deserves a refund.

If you want a delicious, kinky, well-paced, well-researched, and well-written story with a domineering dominant priest, go read Tiffany Reisz's ORIGINAL SINNERS series. Søren can take my confession any day.

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