You Gotta Sin to Get Saved (Paperback)
Reesy Braxton, 35, has finally found her birth mother, after alienating her husband, distressing her adoptive mother, and upsetting her sister, Connie, who isn’t happy about finding the mother who deserted them. Charlotte Rogers often thinks about the two children she had to leave behind, and she clings to her third daughter, Cammy. Mason takes a straightforward tale and spins it into an emotionally complex story with unexpected twists. Multiple points of view and flashbacks offer insights along the way as each member of this broken African American family comes into focus—Reesy, who’s raising her two sons as well as Connie’s daughter; Connie, who stops her string of abortions and has a baby, only to give it away; Cammy, who feels responsible for her unstable mother; and Charlotte herself, thrilled to hear from her long-gone daughters but unsure of how to reconnect. Graphic sex and violence stun the reader into realizing how much these wome (more…)
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Jul 5th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
We All Take Something From Our Mothers
The dynamics of your family have definite influence on how your life will unfold. In this final installment of an “unexpected trilogy”, Mason untangles a web of family secrets…
Jul 5th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
JD Mason does it again
JD Mason has done it again. You Have to Sin To Get Saved is one of the best books that I have read in a long time.
Jul 6th, 2009 at 3:12 am
4.0 out of 5 stars
JD Mason does it again
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I love all J.D. Mason’s books and this is a follow-up to my favorite – One Day I Saw a Black King. This novel details Charlotte’s backstory before and after she abandoned Connie…
Jul 6th, 2009 at 5:41 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
A wonderful way to end a series
I have read all of the books that JD Mason has written solo and I find that all of them are great. I love the way that she ended her series with this final book.
Jul 6th, 2009 at 9:04 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome!!!
You Gotta Sin To Get Saved was amazing.It was definite page turner from begining to end. The author did an outstanding job with transition, recollection and tieing all the…
Jul 6th, 2009 at 11:09 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gripping Story!
I loved One Day I Saw A Black King and Don’t Want No Sugar and I enjoyed this last installment just as much. This has been the best trilogy I have read! J.D.
Jul 6th, 2009 at 11:47 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sinfully good
You Gotta Sin To Get Saved
J.D. Mason has penned yet another amazing chapter in the John King Saga. You Gotta Sin to Get Saved is at once gripping and enthralling.
Jul 6th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Third One Is A Charm
Charlotte Rodgers always gets what she wants. Even if its means abandoning her children Connie and Reesy to fend for themselves in Denver, Colorado without any type of…
Jul 7th, 2009 at 12:04 am
4.0 out of 5 stars
(RAW Rating 4.5) Who Are We?
YOU GOTTA SIN TO GET SAVED by J. D. Mason is the third and final installment of what I call the Charlotte Rodgers/John King series.
Jul 7th, 2009 at 1:47 am
4.0 out of 5 stars
Sin to get get saved
Great book I have never read anything by J.D. Mason I thought J. D. was actually a man until I purchased the book. This is a good book read…