*Disclosure- I received a complimentary copy of the book from the publisher via Litfuse. I was not required to write a positive review and all opinions are 100% my own.
About Pastors' Wives:
What's it like when the man you married is already married to God? asks Pastors' Wives, an often surprising yet always emotionally true first novel set in a world most of us know only from the outside.
Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's debut novel Pastors' Wivesfollows three women whose lives converge and intertwine at a Southern evangelical megachurch. Ruthie follows her Wall Street husband from New York to Magnolia, a fictional suburb of Atlanta, when he hears a calling to serve at a megachurch called Greenleaf. Reeling from the death of her mother, Ruthie suffers a crisis of faith---in God, in her marriage, and in herself. Candace is Greenleaf's "First Lady," a force of nature who'll stop at nothing to protect her church and her superstar husband. Ginger, married to Candace's son, struggles to play dutiful wife and mother while burying her calamitous past. All their roads collide in one chaotic event that exposes their true selves. Inspired by Cullen's reporting as a staff writer for Time magazine, Pastors'Wives is a dramatic portrayal of the private lives ofpastors' wives, caught between the demands of faith, marriage, duty, and love.
My thoughts:
I was interested in reading this book because I thought it had a different premise and wanted to get inside the heads and lives of pastors' wives. I should mention that this book is not written by a faith based author (although the author herself seems likely to be a Christian) or published by a Christian publishing company so there is a tiny bit of language and is not as squeaky clean as a Christian novel would be, but then I think some of that is the point. That pastors' wives aren't perfect and have many of their own struggles. I know that and it is good for us to realize that they are just normal people with husband's who have an extraordinary calling which makes their calling to be married to these men pretty extraordinary. That said, I felt that all of the main characters had too much conflict going on, I know that almost everyone questions their choices and their spouses choices and maybe even their marriage sometime, but almost all of the women in the book (one in particular to me) seem to be pretty selfish in their thoughts and some of their actions. I thought it was a good story with a good subject, but felt that maybe there was a lot of conflict for conflict's sake. I would have liked an equal amount of conflict and happiness. I was happy that the book was written from each woman's perspective it was nice to get several different views of several different characters.
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