Sins of Sevin by Penelope Ward

Sins of Sevin by Penelope Ward
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Shredded Book Reviews (Warning: Spoilers)
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You've got Sevin. A bad boy at heart whose daddy remarried a Christian lady (Lillian). Since then his life has been hell:



Elle. The girl Sevin has agreed to marry in order to escape his evil stepmother. She's a goody-goody, who can do no wrong:



Evangeline. (Elle's sister). She hangs out with people her parents don't agree with and loves fixing cars:



Olga. (Elle and Evangeline's mother):



(And the Elle and Evangeline's father, whose name escapes me...):



This book started off with such promise. Sevin was fooling around with the preacher's wife.
NOTE: For some reason, when this seduction was going on...I kept humming "Son of a Preacher Man."
"This was my fault. Because while my father lay dying, I was next door fucking the preacher's wife."
A month passes after his daddy's funeral, and Sevin finds himself stuck at his stepmother's house, obeying everything she says...yada yada...Putting on a good show for visitors...But behind closed doors he's got a dark secret that would make Jack Dawson blush.
It seemed like I'd been drawing naked women since the beginning of time, but I knew the exact moment it started. In fact, a shrink would have a field day with it."





From that moment forward, everything went downhill.

Vangie (Nickname for Evangeline...) WTF kind of a nickname is that?



Sevin sounded too much like a whiny teenage girl that'd just hit puberty. Elle was just...obsessed with following her parents orders and doing God's work. Evangeline, though wanting to be like Elle, I guess, thinks Sevin is just the hottest thing in the world...Why? I don't know.
This is one of those times where a sexy cover model is ruined by lackluster writing. Everything was curious. It was like someone slapped a stamp on my kindle that read: Everything is going to be convenient.

1) How he thinks his brother is gay, and how Evangeline takes heat for the gay girl she hangs with.

2) Evangeline and Sevin's accidental introduction on the roadway.

3) Evangeline has no excuse to be around Sevin, but magically she's a runner...So they can have time together.

4) Chaperoning. (Hence the Duggar reference.) Way to get rid of Elle (who should be marrying Sevin.) Since Evangeline isn't his fiance, she can come and go as she pleases without supervision...



It was that bad. Evangeline was more "Masculine" than Sevin, so it was hard to imagine any masculine traits in his character. For some characters it works, but not here. I didn't get no Megan Fox vibe from Transformers. You know? That whole I-fix-bikes-and-ride-them-I'm-so-hot-and-cool...No. It hindered the story.



DNF at 32 %. (I paid for it, so I'm giving a rating.) It was too Duggar for me.



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