It had some amazing sexual tension. Priest is hot and so very dirty. I’m going to give a warning here:
If you are a religious person, especially a Catholic, I don’t recommend this book. Since I am neither, none of that bothered me…in fact, I’d convert if I could find my own Father Bell! Father Bell didn’t always want to be a Priest. He had been with a woman before. But when tragedy struck his family and his town, he was drawn to the Priesthood, and devoted his life to his congregation. He was a good man, and a pillar in the community. Until SHE walked into his confessional, and they were pulled together like magnets.
One woman, no matter how hot, was not going to unravel everything I held sacred about the priesthood. She was not going to destroy everything I’d worked so hard to create.
Are you telling me,” I asked, “that you were masturbating in the booth next to me?”
Bell
Told mostly from Father Bell’s point of view, we are able to see he is a very sexual creature, who just wanted to do something right for his community. But I never felt he was truly what a Catholic Priest should be. They have a calling; I never felt that in him. It was more of an obligation, as much as he enjoyed the position and excelled at it.
…”now it was only the thin line of my self-control that kept me from bending her over a pew and spanking that creamy white ass for making me hard when I didn’t want to be. For making me think about her naughty mouth when I should be thinking about her eternal soul.”
”Messy and passionate and raw and creative—a cyclone forced into an eggshell.”
Holy fuck. He was so deliciously dirty. Poppy is actually the character I had some trouble with. I always felt suspicious of her. I never felt her motivation for going after a Priest so blatantly. Furthermore, I mean who goes to confession and tells every detail of a sexual fantasy to the Priest?
”I wanted to be fucked, fucked and used. I wanted to be filled with someone’s dick, I wanted to have fingers in my mouth and in my cunt. In my ass.”
When it comes to you, I’m rootless and helpless and at your mercy for sunshine and water. And I’m not even supposed to be yours.”
What straight man wouldn’t be tempted by a gorgeous woman coming in regularly and telling those types of confessions? Despite what they were doing being SO WRONG, it just felt RIGHT. His love for God and religion was still as strong as ever, but he needed more, and why would God deny him the love of a good woman? I felt his struggles and his dilemmas. He went way too far at times (the altar, holy water…) but that just made it so much hotter. The beginning, when the sexual tension was so high and nothing was really done about it yet was my favorite. I did find that the second half wasn’t quite as engaging as the first because I felt like I didn’t know or trust Poppy, and character depth for both was missing a bit. But damn…hot dominant sex made up for it. Deliciously dirty. Yum, he was so dominant!
”My little lamb, you are so very, very wet right now.”
As Poppy confesses her carnal sins to Father Bell, candidly and boldly, the young woman’s intelligence, vulnerability and alluring sexuality draw him to her like a moth to a flame. The attraction between them grows at a rate that neither of them can control or deny. Each moment spent in each other’s company turning into an addiction that they both struggle with but are unable to give up.
And then one confession changes it all, making them lose all semblance of self-restraint and give in to their dirtiest fantasies and desires. They begin a very physical affair that quickly obliterates all chances of them staying away from each other, their bodies connecting at an almost primal level, with abandon and unrestrained passion, and their hearts following suit.
Whatever happens after this, I just want you to know that this was worth it. You were worth it. You were worth everything.”
Priest was so dirty and taboo, I felt like I needed to go to confession after…or maybe I just wanted to meet a Father Bell. The first half of the book was my favorite, when the sexual tension and confusion and struggles were highest. I felt it lost a little steam for me as the book went on because it was missing some character depth. I never felt like I got to know Poppy at all and was suspicious of her motives the entire book. Though we got to know Father Bell because it was told in his point of view, I would have liked to have gone a little deeper. Hee hee…I wouldn’t mind if Father Bell went deeper
