Sierra Simone

There are many rules a priest can't break. A priest cannot marry. A priest cannot abandon his flock. A priest cannot forsake his God.

I've always been good at following rules.  Until she came. Then I learned new rules.

My name is Tyler Anselm Bell. I'm twenty-nine years old. Six months ago, I broke my vow of celibacy on the altar of my own church, and God help me, I would do it again.

I am a priest and this is my confession.

A Love Story (Priest #1)

Priest

There are many rules a priest can't break.

﻿A priest cannot marry. A priest cannot abandon his flock. A priest cannot forsake his God.

I've always been good at following rules.

Until she came. Then I learned new rules.

My name is Tyler Anselm Bell. I'm twenty-nine years old. Six months ago, I broke my vow of celibacy on the altar of my own church, and God help me, I would do it again.

I am a priest and this is my confession.

Levi-Mae 

“If I’d never met you, I would never have really lived.”

‘Not for the first time, my chest went concave, crumbling inward with the pain of it. The pain of one-sided love, of knowing that I had loved her more than she had loved me.’

‘She was captivating me; she was putting me under her thrall until I wanted to offer her everything, not just the money she’d put in my wallet, but my house, my life, my soul.’

‘I couldn’t lose her. And I couldn’t keep her.’

‘She slid her fingers up my chest, resting them on my collarbone, and I held her close, as if I could press her straight through my skin and into my soul.’

‘Why would God bring Poppy here if I wasn’t supposed to fall in love with her?’

 filled me with awe. She made me see the world with a new sense of wonder, every tree greener, every angle sharper, every face more pleasant and delightful to help.’ 

‘I was falling in love with Poppy Danforth.’

‘We walked in silence now, together but not together, our minds in the beauty of that moment in the sanctuary, on the way it felt to kiss when our souls were on fire.’ 

‘There was no pretending now. Scared and profane were blending and blurring together, fusing and welding themselves into something new and whole and singular, and if this was what love was, then I didn’t know how anyone could bear the weight of it.’ 

‘I wanted to tell her that right now I’d give her anything; I’d give her everything, so long as we could stay in this peaceful bubble of early autumn forever.’

‘Even if she hated me for it. Because I deserved her hatred.’

Izaac Richards

I am very proud that I managed to not squeak like a techage boy.

The last several days had been like something out of a dream or a fairy tale. 

She filled with me with awe. She made me see the world with a new sense of wonder, every tree greener, every angle sharper, every face more pleasant and delightful to help. 

It hit me like a ton of obvious, kiss-sized bricks as I recited Mass the next morning: I was falling in love with Poppy Danforth.

I didn't know what I could do to explain how I felt about her, and also how I felt about my vocation and my responsibilities, and about how I was so ready to abandon them all because I wanted to kiss her again.

I was being a pig, for more reasons than one.

That it would be all right because there was love and because someone like her was in the world sharing that love

“But now you are going to say that we are all fallen sinners in a fallen world.”

It's not what I expected but also exactly what I expected? If you are more of a praise-preferring reader, you will have a lot of moments when you shake your head and go ew. 

Taiha Morton

abby

2.5 ⭐️ — this was. . . odd to me. but it was alright.

This was a struggle to finish. It was boring. The entire book I was waiting for something exciting to happen. 

Delayna Morrow

aleksandra

dnf 51% 

I give up here. I'm not strong enough to continue. This story is basically about Tayler Bell being horny 24/7. 


  
    "Don’t jump her bones. Don’t fantasize about fucking her tits. Be a good priest."

"Her eyelashes made me hard. That was a new benchmark for me, I had to admit."
  


I was terrified that her nails would turn him on later. 


  
    "But mostly I was so fucking hard I couldn’t think straight."
  


Of course you were. Being horny was your entire personality at this point. 

Let’s not forget about our second main character, Poppy. She was also horny 24/7. 

I know. 

Shocking. 


  
    "The last time, when we talked, I got so hot talking to you. I thought if it happened again today, it would be easier if I didn’t wear panties. To…take care of it. And it was easier.”

“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.” She took a breath."
  


You know, they actually were a match made in heaven. 


  
    "I was supposed to be a shepherd of the flock, not the wolf. Not the wolf who had woken up this morning grinding his hips into the mattress because he’d had a very intense dream with Poppy and her carnal sins in a starring role."
  


I was terrified. Again.

I think Father Bell was born with a very rare disease where instead of thinking with his brain, he does it with his dick. 


  
    "I wanted to marry this woman or collar her or cage her; I wanted to own her, make her, take her; I wanted us on this old carpet forever, with her hair coming undone and her nipples hard and her naughty pussy milking my dick for everything it was worth."
  


He'd known her for less than a month and thought that? You met up maybe four times and talked for twenty minutes altogether.

It might be me, but the brackets? I mean, maybe more what was in them. 


  
    "(Plus there was the distracting fact that the last time I saw her, I’d ended up jizzing all over my desk.)"
  


Jizzing??? Sounds poetic. 


Yeah. I was done.

There are many rules a priest can't break. A priest cannot marry. A priest cannot abandon his flock. A priest cannot forsake his God. I've always been good at following rules. Until she came. Then I learned new rules. My name is Tyler Anselm Bell. I'm twenty-nine years old. Six months ago, I broke my vow of celibacy on the altar of my own church, and God help me, I would do it again. I am a priest and this is my confession. ***Priest is a full-length standalone. For Mature Audiences Only***

A Love Story

I almost dnf’d this book because it started off way too fast. I know it’s fiction but there has to be some kind of slow burn somewhere! What do you mean he just meets this woman and is jacking off in his office because of her VOICE. You mean to tell me that a priest is willing to turn his back on everything he believes in because one woman enters his life? Three years of celibacy and priesthood down the drain because he just has to have a woman he doesn’t even know. Not only that, all they do is fuck and do sexual things and yet they’re falling in love? Please. I didn’t find that this book had a whole lot of substance or plot. And I wanted to see a darker side of the priest. There was all this talk about “releasing the beast” and he never really did. And the end infuriated me because he went through all of that pain just for poppy to disappear. I know it ended better than that but I’m still pissed off about it. I’d probably only recommend this book if someone wanted a smut read because that’s all it really is.

avenlaming

5 stars.

amazing. i never thought i’d ever read this book but i am so happy i did.
🌶️🌶️🌶️/5

Hannah Russo

oh my god. no book has made me feel every single possible emotion in existence like this one. there were moments where i felt all possible hope, and at one point absolutely nothing. AND THE STEAMY STUFF- DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON IT IM SCREAMING INTO MY PILLOW. pacing was amazing, and the ending left me happy asf.

Lani

LITERALLY HAD ME GIGGLING TWIRLING MY HAIR AND SHITTING DAWG

Renata

this is literally the definition of : forgive me father i have sinned.
i literally read it in literature class, amazing

Sara Uribe

I don't know what it is about these church related dirty romances but it really does something for me. I loved this book. Father Tyler Bell and Poppy Danforth are two characters that I will never forget. I loved the passion, connection and fire between them. The sex? My god, I was blushing. Multiple times. I mean it’s embarrassing, I read dirty stuff all the time but this? This was on another level of sinful and dirty. I loved it. I’m not a huge fan of religious undertones in the romances that I read but there's certain authors that really pull it off for me and help me look past it. Sierra Simone is one of those. Since I was listening to this on audio, which I highly recommend, I had to stop and start it multiple times because I was so scared to see where they would end up. The audio for this book made the reading experience even better. Jacob Morgan and Elena Wolfe did such an amazing job narrating these characters. My one little sang I have is I wish we got more from Poppy’s POV but the little bits we did get were gold. But other than that I really loved this book. Highly recommend.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Somehow I knew what I was getting into when I started this one but was also unprepared at the same time. So the plot wasn’t really a thing in this book. Honestly there was one thing discussed really and it was so repetitive that you just wanted to throttle the characters but it was pretty much the only point of the book. 

I was not ready for that and honeslty no church would be prepared for Tyler and Poppy if I’m going to be honest. I’m kind if afraid of what this series will have next. 

Priscilla Stanfield

What the hell did I just read? 

Somehow I knew what I was getting into when I started this one but was also unprepared at the same time. So the plot wasn’t really a thing in this book. Honestly there was one thing discussed really and it was so repetitive that you just wanted to throttle the characters but it was pretty much the only point of the book. 

The spice though🥵

I was not ready for that and honeslty no church would be prepared for Tyler and Poppy if I’m going to be honest. I’m kind if afraid of what this series will have next. 

The smut in the book is great. Growing up being at church every Sunday and now that I can’t imagining doing that anymore as an adult(views have change on religion) definitely a fun read. Story line/plot overall not great. Ending was predictable. 

Katherine Pierce

OH MY GOD THIS BOOK IS PERFECT. I finished it in under 24 hours. This book just kept me coming back. It is truly perfect. The perfect balance between storyline, love, and sex. The perfect pace. And everything about this book is pure perfection.

Why do I even put myself through this. I want to say this book had my questioning if the author should've been allowed to put pen to paper, but then again I did binge it in a day. You read it for what it is and it's exactly what you get. Everything was exaggerated but who wasn't expecting that. Intense spice, not much of a plotline and enjoyable characters makes for a book I'm glad to have read but have nothing extraordinary to say about. 

ariah 

Lea ;)

The book will have you wanting to go to church for all the wrong reasons

It was a good balance of smut and plot. It broke my heart when poppy cheated but I still carried on to find a very good reason behind it.I loved it but its that heartbreak which made me want to stop but that’s the good part of the book, when I feel like I am the one it’s happening to I love being part of the story and when poppy broke his heart it was like it was me who she cheated on.

Majinder 

yusra noorain

I enjoyed this book, I got into it pretty much straight away. The only thing was, the sexual parts got a bit repetitive. Plus, they both annoyed me at different points of the story.  

Jodie Reads

I was a little nervous going into this because I don’t like reading books about religion, but it didn’t make me as mad as I thought it would.

This is definitely not a book to read for the plot, or even the characters honestly, because while I did like them, we never found out heaps about them, mainly poppy cause it’s not in her pov but I feel like I don’t know her very well or what her life was like. It is purely a book for entertainment- with a couple heavier topics.

I was going to rate this 3.5 but I didn’t because the ending pissed me off so much, this is kind of how it went: one night poppy and Tyler are happy and in love and whatever, and then the next day she kisses her ex, moves away and never contacts Tyler again, he’s the one that found her, after TEN MONTHS, like why that whole thing was so unnerving and so annoying, the only acceptable thing that could have happened was if sterling like kidnapped her or something, but no literally nothing happened to make her not talk to Tyler for 10 months.

Anyway, overall this was fun and smutty and I would recommend it if that’s what your in the mood for. I’m very excited to read the other two, I think they will be a lot better.

Jade 

I was a little nervous going into this because I don’t like reading books about religion, but it didn’t make me as mad as I thought it would.

This is definitely not a book to read for the plot, or even the characters honestly, because while I did like them, we never found out heaps about them, mainly poppy cause it’s not in her pov but I feel like I don’t know her very well or what her life was like. It is purely a book for entertainment- with a couple heavier topics.

I was going to rate this 3.5 but I didn’t because the ending pissed me off so much, this is kind of how it went: one night poppy and Tyler are happy and in love and whatever, and then the next day she kisses her ex, moves away and never contacts Tyler again, he’s the one that found her, after TEN MONTHS, like why that whole thing was so unnerving and so annoying, the only acceptable thing that could have happened was if sterling like kidnapped her or something, but no literally nothing happened to make her not talk to Tyler for 10 months.

Anyway, overall this was fun and smutty and I would recommend it if that’s what your in the mood for. I’m very excited to read the other two, I think they will be a lot better.

Hadeer Tarek 

WOW!! That was really good. I absolutely loved every little detail about this book. Probably the best book I’ve read this year

Savannah Bergevin

Fifty shades of grey who?
God that was an emotional roller coaster

Maya Johnson

** spoiler alert **
           Wow, this was really spicy! There were some parts that I didn't care for, like when the sex was too rough. I.E - He tells her that he's going to "take" anal from her if she doesn't give it to him and that made my skin crawl. Father Bell also talked about God a lot, I understand that he's a priest but I wish we got more scenes of him just doing non priest related things (other than fking Poppy!). 

I'm an atheist and I still really enjoyed this story. I took a star off for the things mentioned above. The story even made me teary-eyed towards the end. I can't wait to read the rest of the series !

Jenn

detelinka

i feel like I shouldn't have read this. its uhm uncomfortable at last, unrealistic maybe and questionable. 
it was hot for sure, the ending was predictable, but oh well.
literally have no thoughts its just meh

Priest A Love Story (Priest #1)

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