Be Careful What You Pray For

 

Shirley J.                  Urban Fiction                            Philanderers, Preachers, Ambition

Be Careful What You Pray For by Kimberla Lawson Roby     288 pages

Another good book in the Reverend Curtis Black series.   This book deals with his oldest daughter, Alicia, and her second marriage to another preacher, only this time, she snagged a philanderer, not a two-timer but a 3 or 4 timer as he juggles his second wife (there is gossip as to his role in his first wife's death), Alicia, his much older married mistress - a member of the church married to a very rich man whose money she plays fast and loose with, a former prostitute who this reverend who used to pimp in his days before he put on the collar had in his stable and now wants to erase, and a new woman he happened to meet in an airport.   How he keeps them all straight while his ambition grows for a bigger, better lifestyle and all the accompanying power, prestige and bling is wild.   I recommend this book to all fans of Urban Fiction, stories about families, friends. the people behind the facades they put on, mixed with greed, temptation/affairs, life stripped down to reality.  Given many of the issues dealt with in the story, I recommend this one for adults.