The Sunday Wife: A Novel

Rating:
Summary: An Outstanding Read-Nothing Less Than 5 Stars!
Review: This book was very engrossing and I enjoyed it very much!

Willodean Lynch is not really cut out to be a 'minister's wife,' by any means. Especially with the type of preacher, Ben is; very rigid and controlling with his wife. Dean has had it and wants to break loose.

When once again, Ben moves to another methodist church, Dean follows of course reluctantly as the wonderful preacher's wife. Right off the button, she instantly dislikes the organist there, and more than a few other ladies. But the one person she dearly comes to love is Augusta, a liberated woman much to Ben's disapproval of it all.

As she and Augusta hang around together, things get worse and worse on the homefront with Ben. A tragedy occurs along the line, and that is the catalyst where Dean's life will radically change.

I can't say too much more without giving this whole story away. But as you read through the book, the story builds until it reaches a very unexpected climax.

Rating:
Summary: One of the best I have read in a long time
Review: This book will leave you laughing and crying.

Being a Southern woman and also raised in the church, I always pondered what the preachers wife was like behind closed doors. This book takes away some of the mystery.

Dean (Willowdean) is a wonderful woman who is just learning to like herself for who she is and not what everyone else wants her to be.

She taught me that I cannot be everything to everyone and what is bad in someones eyes is not necessarily a bad thing.

Yes, she does get into trouble, but don't we all. But through all the trouble, she stayed true to herself and her heart friends.

And in the end trouble has a way of bringing out the good.

An excellent soul searching book. I could not put it down until it was done... and then pass it on to others



Rating:
Summary: A good argument for the celibate clergy...
Review: I couldn't like this book, because I couldn't like one person in it! Every single person in it who has more than one line was completely self-centered, and I couldn't figure out half of their motivations for doing anything they did (for instance, why didn't Dean get to be friends with Collie, who certainly seemed nice). The big emotional climaxes left me flat. The description of the "church ladies" certainly was accurate, and if the author had stayed with that theme, it could have been a much better book. Oh, and given Rev. Lynch *something* to do besides pop in, be a self-centered sob and disappear again for awhile!

Rating:
Summary: really bad 'chick fiction'...........
Review: My book club read The Sunday Wife recently. It was considered a dud. We found we couldn't sympathize with, much less like, any of the characters. We also felt the plot was contrived. Also, Ms King didn't do her reseach well. In the early part of the book her characters are comparing which is the best way to drown ones sorrow; by using Zantac or Jack Daniel's. I think the author meant Xanax which is a prescription anti-anxiety medication, not Zantac which is an over-the-counter heartburn medicine. For shame....

Rating:
Summary: The Best Book for 2003 and 2004
Review: This is, by far, the best book I've ever read. I'm a quick read and usually complete 10 books/yr. (mostly in the Summer @ the Beach )and I can remember every detail of this book which is unusual for me.- my husband says this is due to the amt. of material I read (magazines, cookbook, anything I can get my hands on). I would also suggest this as a gift for someone b/c it isn't very explicit or sexually detailed (think opposite Danielle Steele). Although there are some 'tender' moments, they are done in very tasteful ways.

Rating:
Summary: Predictable, cheesy and psuedo-political
Review: I was looking for an entertaining beach read, so did not have high, literary expectations - but even so this book was a big disappointment.

Filled with cliche dialogue, predictable plot line and mushy attempts to build quasi-feminists characters, I suffered through it because I had nothing else to read.