Booklist Reviews
Outrageous actions, outsize emotions, and characters with paper-thin motivations worked for silent-film melodramas and their faithful fans. McGlothin's best-selling Sinful introduced Dior, an amoral young woman not above sexually assaulting her beloved cousin's husband to get what she wanted—whatever that was. Sinful Too at least equips Dior with a lust for the easy life, one filled with ritzy cars, fancy clothes, and showy jewelry from a rich husband. The conceit that every man drools with yearning at the mere sight of her seems benign until a famous, wealthy preacher crosses her shopgirl path. Although already married and twice over a father, he embarks on a highly sexual and soon very public affair with Dior, which McGlothin presents as taxing only his body, not his mind or soul. There's an inexplicable absence of any inner conflict in his betrayal of his wife, his daughters, and his megachurch of parishioners. His final desperate act exposes the full extent of his immorality but never explains it. Copyright 2008 Booklist Reviews.
Publishers Weekly Reviews
McGlothin's steamy sequel to Sinful reveals what happens when the wicked Dior Wicker determines to marry Dallas pastor Richard Allamay, star of Church TV's High Praise and "shepherd of Methodist Episcopal Greater Apostolic Church" (M.E.G.A. Church, for short). Dior's best friend warns her to stay clear of the man, but the warnings go deeply unheeded as Richard, bored with his wife, is ripe for a fall. Lust drives Richard to strange lengths in his attempts to impress Dior (he misuses church money, and lies to his family and cheats on his wife). McGlothin unravels at a relentless pace a sexy and twisted story of marital and spiritual unfaithfulness, culminating in a shocker of a conclusion. Eric Jerome Dickey, watch out. (Oct.)
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