You Gotta Sin to Get Saved

You Gotta Sin to Get Saved
by J. D. Mason

You Gotta Sin to Get Saved
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Author: J. D. Mason
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-04-01
ISBN: 0312326580
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Book Reviews of You Gotta Sin to Get Saved

Book Review: Sequel to: One Day I Saw A King
Summary: 4 Stars

One Day I Saw A King is the love story of John King and Connie. John King was the product of the rape of a 14 year old by a mentally challenged man. Connie was abandoned by her mother at the age of 12 and forced into eating out of garbage cans and prostituting herself. This book picks up where One Day I Saw A King left off.

Connie and John are still together. Connie is pregnant and John doesn't want to be a father. Reesy and Justin are going through hard times due to Justin cheating on her. Reesy has found Charlotte (she and Connie's birth mother) and discovered a new sister, Cammy.

Charlotte, as predicted, is a certified b*tch.

The beauty of this book is it explains to the reader what Charlotte has been doing during the 30 years she has been away from Connie and Reesy.

Pros: The writing is outstanding. I could put it down, but only due to work. The writing was complex and enjoyable.

Cons: When will the author give a finale to the relationship of John and Connie? I feel like there has to be another book now to discuss them raising the baby. Also, what will happen to Charlotte and Cammy? For this to be an end of a series, it sure had a lot of loose ends.

Summary of You Gotta Sin to Get Saved

Charlotte Rodgers has always wanted too much. Too much love, too much attention, and had too many big dreams. It was how she ended up abandoning her two daughters, Connie and Reesy to chase after a man and the promise of a dream life. But Charlotte never anticipated how her world would be irrevocably changed. Now, twenty-seven years later, her whole world shifts yet again with a letter from one of her daughters. And the past is about to bust wide open.

Reesy has always been obsessed with something. Obsessed with finding her birth mother. Obsessed with her sister’s life. Obsessed with her own adopted daughter never finding out that Reesy is really her aunt. With a neglected husband, who is unknowingly drifting further and further away, a sister who is trying to escape her well-meaning clutches, and a daughter becoming more and more curious about her true parentage, finding the mother she always dreamed about seems to be an answered prayer to Reesy. That is until Reesy is brought crashing back to earth to find that her perfect life is in tattered pieces.

Connie has always expected too little. Too little from the man she’s been living with for years. Too little from her modest jewelry business. And too little from her relationships, or lack thereof, with her daughter, mother and sister. And too little from herself. Until she discovers she is pregnant again and decides that this time she is keeping her baby, sending her life and her relationship into a tailspin. And rediscovering the mother who left them behind is the last thing she wants.

Thrown back together again, in a maelstrom of shocking truths, Charlotte, Reesy and Connie will discover on their journey to forgiveness and redemption that you just might have to sin first in order to be saved.

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