Roby’s novels tend to have a slow looooooong rise, the peak (when the shit hits the fan), then the END of the book. Here’s why: all stories have a rise, a peak (or climax) and then a decline. Unfortunately I am not a fan of her writing style. Roby’s storytelling style has not changed. I haven’t missed a thing since Casting the First Stone all those years ago. He can only juggle so many balls in the air before one slip brings all of the balls down around his head. JT grand scheme is not coming together as he had hoped.
He cannot deny himself the pleasure of the flesh, from as many different women as possible. JT’s method in accomplishing this goal is by marrying the daughter of Rev.
He wants his already 5000 plus members congregation to grow even larger crack the TV market author bestselling books in other words, become a younger version of Rev. JT Valentine doesn’t view his marriage in the same light as Alicia. Despite hearing rumors and rumblings about JT’s philandering ways and the cloud of mystery hanging over the death of JT’s first wife Michelle Alicia refuses to allow any seeds of doubt ruin her new marriage. There’s a threat of rain on Alicia’s parade. She has a new love, a new husband, and has finished writing her first novel and is in the process of getting it published. Today is a new day, Alicia has changed her life. Alicia is closing an embarrassing and humiliating chapter in her life: her first husband Phillip, a preacher, divorced Alicia when her affair with Levi, a drug dealer, became public knowledge. Curtis Black, from Casting the First Stone, marries and begins a new life with the Rev. As far as the novel goes, I’m afraid the bad outweigh the good by a couple of pounds.Īlicia Black, the daughter of Rev. Be Careful What You Pray For deals with a preacher’s ambition, his weaknesses and whether his wife can take the abuse.
The new novel picks up with the same type of characters. The last novel I read by Roby was Casting the First Stone. Upon reading the first few pages, I immediately got a sense of Déjà vu.
I decided to break that trend and read her latest novel, Be Careful What You Pray For. It has been a few years since I have read a book by Kimberla Lawson Roby.
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