 The book had a four and a half star out of 5 score on customer reviews in Amazon in January 2018.A User MGallaway gave it five stars and said, "Like its author, this book resists easy labels and classification.Combining elements of family memoir, political analysis, history, exegesis, cloak-and-dagger meetings, and gay hookups, "A Sinner in Mecca" exposes religious intolerance—and its economic and colonial underpinnings—and celebrates the beauty of faith in its most intimate, personal form.