{Release Blitz & Book Review}: THE Saint by Sierra Simone

     

  SAINT by Sierra Simone 

Release Date: September 7th 

Genre/Tropes: M/M/Second-chance romance/Brothers Best Friend/Forbidden Romance     

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  Blurb: 

I can’t have Elijah Iverson.   I can’t have him because he’s my older brother’s best friend. I can’t have him because I broke his heart five years ago; because he’s now engaged to someone else—someone kind and dependable who deserves his whiskey eyes, his soft mouth, his fierce intellect.   I can’t have Elijah because I’ve chosen God instead.   The Bell brothers, though . . . well, we don't exactly have the greatest track record with vows. But I’m determined to do this monk thing right—to pledge myself to a cloistered life and spend the rest of my years in chastity and prayer. But now Elijah’s here. He’s here and he’s coming with me on my European monastery road trip, and between the whispered confessions and the stolen kisses and the moments bent over an ancient altar, my vows are feeling flimsier by the day.   And vows or not, I know in my heart that it would take more than a good and holy monk to resist Elijah Iverson right now. It would take a saint.   And we all know that I’m no saint.   (This is the third full-length standalone in the Priest Collection, featuring Father Bell's brother, Aiden Bell. You do not have to read Priest or Sinner to read Saint.) 

           

  About the Author: 

Sierra Simone is a USA Today Bestselling former librarian (who spent too much time reading romance novels at the information desk.) She lives with her husband and family in Kansas City.  

    

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This Forbidden tale of unrequited love just tears at your moral tapestry one thread at a time. It's lusty, it's passionate and oh so deliciously hurting. As I shed my tears to its chants, fold my hands to beg for deliverance from this acute heartache, I get a glimpse of how God designed love to be. In its purest form, it's a different gate to the same heaven and its all thanks to a writer like sierra. 

Standing at the crossroads of Religion and Human sexuality, It's profoundly religious, deeply spiritual and solemnly sacred in feel, I almost felt I was committing a sin as my eyes kissed the words written on these pages. I somehow feel cleansed, baptized, stripped to my soul.
A monk is traveling with a man he's still in love with, and you get to walk in their footsteps, peeking voyeuristically at their stolen moments inside the crumbling cottage, on the hill on a blanket, hidden around the yew and especially on the altar.
It's a psalm of passion, hymn of lustful lyrics, prayer of tortured hearts. All you can do is Recite and let it revereberate inside of you, touch Kairos.

"I’ve been living in Deep Time these last two weeks, in medieval monasteries where monks sing prayers thousands of years old and where Aiden looks at me like I’m a human hymn. For a handful of days, I have been suspended with him, and maybe even with God, inside that fullness, all my dots connecting, hovering, shimmering." 

Sierra always manages to surprise the readers with her overpowering, deeply emotional stories and this one is no different. It's both majestic and humble in content. Austerity of monastic life against the grandeur of European countryside is so rich and colourful, it feels sacriligious to encroach upon the the tranquil beauty of lavender fields. 

"It’s like I’m looking at everything through stained glass, warped and bubbled and shaded in vital, jeweled hues." 

Aiden has shed his colourful life of parties, women, money and drugs to Don the polyester scapular and robes of a monk. Crossing the threshold of disturbed, noisy impulsive life of a millionaire playboy to the Stark, rigidly structured life In the Hermitage and the contrast is so wide, it seems like a non starter since onset.

But Aiden surprises himself with his adaptability becuase he is now put in the corner of his own soul.

Cognitive Dissonance 

There's an embarrassment of riches in terms of natural Vistas and bejeweled sentiments. And amidst it all are two people who straddle on dual worlds of social splurge full of excesses in every form and the darkness lurking in the periphery, always threatening to suck them down the rabbit hole.

Sierra brings the vaccilating hearts to a standstill for 5 years and in the interim is the passage, the journey, the quest for the true calling for both Aiden Bell and Elijah Iverson. 

"It’s been four years and six months of trying to let Elijah Iverson go." 

They are reluctant companions in their voyage around the world to look for purpose and peace and ironically it's at last found hiding inside them. They just need a lesson in patience to discover it. Let it come TO them instead of going AFTER it. 

To question all their What Ifs and explore the nooks and crannies possibilities of finding a way back. 

"It’s huge, vast, bigger than grace and larger than sin,

I’d rather the sting of repentance than the anguish of wishing. Wishing for the rest of my life that I’d used every hour of these last days with Elijah." 

I don't have to explain the phenomenon that is Sierra, her talent needs no validation from a lowly, albeit obsessed reader like me, but I have to tell you this. There's no way you will be unchanged or untransformed after experiencing this story of Aiden Bell. 

My soul transformed without my knowledge and I'm definitely richer having just walked through this miraculous book. There's no more words left in my pitiful vocabulary to perfectly articulate the meteoric impact this book had on me. I've been her greatest fan always but I keep falling deeper and deeper in love with her writing with every book. 

What an honor to witness her work during my lifetime.

10 stars for Many Ways to the Well