GRR Review Sensuous Angel by Heather Graham

Sensuous Angel is a hard book to explain. It mixes religion, police, friendship, and love in a tale that starts off slow as heck but once it started moving it started to make more sense, until the FMC started to have several "too stupid to live" moments and requires rescue... of the divine intervention nature.

Donna lost touch with her friend Lorna who was in New York, and Lorna's last letter was written from a hospital with only one name as crew: Andrew. Donna is rich enough that she'd just head to New York and tried to find Lorna by herself... WITHOUT backup. Police had nothing, and she walked into the wrong neighborhood and was mugged... then was saved by Father Luke, who's handsome as sin, strong, and capable of violence if need be. NOT a typical Catholic priest, for sure. (It was much later we learned he's actually Episcopalian)

Turns out Father Luke does know where Andrew may be... but he wants Donna to trust him on faith and he will try to find Andrew for a little explanation. In the meanwhile, Father Luke managed to seduce Donna... not carnally, but merely... by his presence and touch. Obviously, both have lots and lots of secrets, and why Lorna disappeared but is safe, why is Luke out so late at night at times, etc.
The problem is Donna is NOT the kind of person that trusts, even on faith, and finding out Father Luke is NOT Catholic made Donna not to trust him despite he had never lied when questioned. As not to spoil the story completely, let's just say that Luke occasionally helps the police on certain matters using his God-given talent, and Donna, not the trust type, had to see for herself by invoking the trope "follow that taxi!" to follow Luke to criminals, and got Luke injured. Upon going home, she was kidnapped by people who're after Lorna... and this is where Luke's Godgiven gift comes in.

The romance is sweet, and the mystery, which is not as much of a mystery, was peeled back layer by layer, but the need for divine intervention and the constant yacking about faith, "trust me I know what I am doing", "I can't tell you why, just trust me"... gets a bit tiresome, esp. when Donna is an impulsive gal that just cannot let things go.

All in all, it didn't grab me as much as it should.

Category: Romantic Suspense

Primary Plot: Woman went to New York to find her friend, stumbled into a handsome priest who saved her... and a mystery...

Tropes: enemies to lovers, fish out of water

Overall Rating:  3/5