Love, Honor, and Betray
Kimberla Lawson Roby, Grand Central, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-446-57245-3
In Roby's eighth update exploring the family of the righteous Reverend Black (after 2010's Be Careful What You Pray For), life at the Deliverance Outreach ministry of Mitchell, Ill., is relatively calm (except for a sneaky chief financial officer; never trust a CFO named Raven), but the minister's household is suffering. Most notably, his frustrated wife, Charlotte, is furious that he's taken in Curtina, the daughter that came from an affair. Charlotte doesn't believe she can love Curtina the way she loves Matthew, the teenage son the couple share. Roby's rendering of Charlotte rekindling her own affair, with an old now-married flame, and her one-night stand with a secretive man is a hoot, and fans of faith-based series will no doubt relish these sinful shenanigans. But readers will find it hard to empathize with a woman who bears such fiery resentment for a toddler ("Curtis would either get rid of that little brat or find himself in divorce court"), and also wish Roby had endeavored to make her eventual redemption less predictable. (Jan.)
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Reviewed on: 10/11/2010
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 415 pages - 978-1-4104-3713-6
Mass Market Paperbound - 336 pages - 978-0-446-57243-9
Open Ebook - 1 pages - 978-1-60941-581-5
Other - 288 pages - 978-0-446-58264-3
Paperback - 368 pages - 978-0-446-57244-6
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