The synopsis:
Lacey Anne Byer is a perennial good girl and lifelong member of the House of Enlightenment, the Evangelical church in her small town. With her driver's license in hand and the chance to try out for a lead role in Hell House, her church's annual haunted house of sin, Lacey's junior year is looking promising. But when a cute new stranger comes to town, something begins to stir inside her. Ty Davis doesn't know the sweet, shy Lacey Anne Byer everyone else does. With Ty, Lacey could reinvent herself. As her feelings for Ty make Lacey test her boundaries, events surrounding Hell House make her question her religion.


My thoughts: Honestly?  The cover grabbed me, the blurb held me, but my interest really waned as I got further along in the story.  I think reading the backstory on the author and her intent in this novel before reading the book would have made me the book a lot better for me.  As it were, I side eyed the book the entire time I read it.  I have a heavy issue with religion of the type featured in Small Town Sinners, and that was in my mind's eye the whole time.  And there ultimately just felt like too much naivete was going on in this book, and oh man judgment.  The pages and characters were rife with judgments they felt compelled to share.  Again though,  if I would have known up front that Walker was trying to underline and identify the Hell Houses traditionally associated with the Evangelical church, and not in a necessarily positive light, I think I would have had a different reaction to it.  A good read, and it did evoke emotions, unfortch, they were mostly just annoyance