Sacred Sin

by Virginia Llorca

Can you love two people with complete passion? Do you feel something must be missing somewhere? Maybe not.
Left on her own at an early age, Jenny MacFarlane is determined to take the right steps to protect herself and be the person her mother expected her to be. She marries carefully, not always with love uppermost in her mind.
But that guy that taught her everything she knows about love is so deeply embedded in her heart and soul, no matter what Jenny chooses, he will always be there.


Sacred Sin, a modern love story, with a nod to the King Arthur legends, is the first of a family saga that blurs and sharpens the lines defining love, loyalty, and morality.


Adult language, mature situations, explicit content.

Genres: Ebooks

ebook

First published August 10, 2011

Reviews

[Katherine Owen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great read!, January 9, 2012 By Katherine C. Owen

Sacred Sin by Virgina Llorca is evocative, intimate, and sexy. The intriguing adult story contains flashes of brilliance about an amazing woman named Jenny who is mysterious, magical, and somewhat mad. A state she openly acknowledges as she seduces not only the men that she has magnetized to her in life, but the readers who get drawn into this story. Llorca weaves an intricate tale with her writing style that feels both autobiographical and intimate, even though Sacred Sin is told in third person.

This reader was somewhat bewitched by Jenny and had to throw out the semblance of a moral code, at times, in order to better understand this deeply drawn character that is Jenny Agnoli. Can you be in love with two men at the same time? And, be with them both? Apparently, you can. Llorca's novel takes us on a thirty-year journey from the time Jenny is a baby where readers get a glimpse of young Jenny and attempt to understand this amazing girl through the eyes of her first love, Barney. And then, the writer propels readers forward with the introduction of the magnetic Danny who becomes the love of Jenny's life and possibly her soul mate. But, alas, there are questions there that Llorca impels readers to consider. Can you love more than one person at the same time? Can you need them for different reasons?

I loved all the characters in this novel. Somehow, I wanted things to work out for all of them even though a certain amount of madness or a spell of some kind seem to come over all of them, at different times, in terms of the way they dealt with Jenny and her manic-depressive state(s).

Sacred Sin was a thought-provoking story by a very talented writer and one I will think about long after the last page I read. I look forward to reading more of Virginia Llorca's work.

[A.B. Shepherd · Rating 1 out of 5]

It is really rare for me to give a completely negative review of any book. I have incredible respect for authors and appreciate how hard it can be to tell a story.

I don't want to give any spoilers so what I have to say about this one is limited. As one other reviewer said this book feels, in part, autobiographical. That is not a bad thing in and of itself. Oh to heck with it. Here come the spoilers.

***SPOILER ALERT***
Jenny is a bipolar young woman who spends all of her adult life in a love triangle with her husband Danny and her best friend Barney. I find myself in a minority with this review. Others have said this book is insightful and that Jenny is a magnetic character. I didn't find it so. I didn't find Jenny magnetic or a sympathetic character. I found her selfish, obsessive, irresponsible and unwilling to accept responsibility for the decisions she made in her life. Other than her obsessive love for her children, in my view she had no redeeming qualities at all. The men in her life were supposed to be bewitched by her. Why? Because she was great in bed is the only reason I could come up with. But sexual obsession over decades is a bit unrealistic too.

My biggest complaint though, is not about the characters or the story so much as it was about the non-ending. There was no resolution. There was no climax. There was just nothing. Just the words "The End".

I did not like this book. At least others do, and that is the good thing about stories. We all have different opinions.

[Shayna Gier · Rating 3 out of 5]

The language of this book is so evocative. I’ll say it here, before I go into much else that the reader of this book must be a mature adult. The wording itself isn’t so graphic, as is the way the words work together. I usually have a hard time connecting with third-person narratives, and at first this was true in Sacred Sin as well, but there are different reasons that the third person viewpoint exists, and the intimacy conveyed in this particular instance is intensified by the third-person outlook.

I would have to rate it objectively as a 3.75 if I did half-stars, which I don’t. For me, this story was very evocative and intriguing… yet I’d still label it a 3. I can easily see someone else really enjoying it though. While steamy, sexy, intimate, evocative… I think you get the picture to an extremely high-degree, it does provide a story of a woman who truly loves two guys at once. Though life is not always glamorously wonderful for Jenny- it is a bit of fantasy for the reader. Who hasn’t had to choose between two loves in their lives? Again, not for a younger audience, but for a steamy book that has an intricate story as well- very well done.

[Francene Stanley · Rating 2 out of 5]

After several attempts at reading this over the last month, I'm afraid this book didn't draw me into the story. Often, the narrator told the story. The early part where the main characters are young seemed promising. However, the adult section veered into both characters' points of view sometimes in the same paragraph. This prevented me from bonding with the characters. I stopped reading about a quarter of the way through.

[Stephanie · Rating 1 out of 5]

worst book I ever read

[Tia Lucas]

not impressed

[Peggy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Didn't think I would make it through this book but finally did