Hot Under His Collar
by Andie J Christopher
5 Stars
Father Patrick has been a priest since his mom died and a girl broke his heart when he was just out of college. He has put all his energy into helping his church, which includes the Pre-K program that he just discovered needs more money in order to run next year. Sasha lives a perfect little life playing the "Good Girl" to please her controller family. Sasha and her friend Hannah run a party planning business and have decided to help Patrick raise the money he needs to keep the Pre-K open. Sasha puts all her energy into helping Patrick while trying to keep her crush for him a secret. A crush on a priest would be considered a giant scandal if her controlling Mother found out. The two work closely together and Patrick starts to have a little crush on Sasha as well. The both start to question their life choices about being together. I absolutely loved this. I did have a bit of a hard time with Patrick's inner dialogue. Hearing those thoughts from a priest made me question why priests can't have relationships to begin with. But I like how the awareness was brought to the cause that Priests should have relationships and the church should be more accepting. If it was a pepper it would be a Jalapeño. It does contain sexually explicit material but more toward the end of the book and although some depictions of sex are described it does have some "fade to black" moments. I do have to say, I absolutely hate the cover. I feel like the cover ruins the book to some extent. The scale of the two characters comes off a little more on he creepy side although I assume they were going for a devil on your shoulder kind of depiction. For me it doesn't read that way at all. I do however like the contrast of pink with the black it's color scheme is appealing.
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