Seven Deadly Sins (novel series) Seven Deadly Sins (novel series) Seven Deadly Sins is a series of young adult novels written by Robin Wasserman. Its plot follows a group of bankrupt teens living in the town of Grace, California. The series was published starting in 2005 through Simon Pulse and consists of seven books, each one named after one of the seven deadly sins. The book by release date are "Lust" (2005), "Envy", "Pride" (2006), "Wrath", "Sloth", "Gluttony" (2007), and "Greed". The series was adapted into a TV miniseries in 2010 that starred Dreama Walker, Rachel Melvin, Jared Keeso, Reila Aphrodite, and Eric Close. The
Seven deadly sins as the father of all sins. Lust, or lechery (Latin, ""luxuria"" (carnal)), is intense longing. It is usually thought of as intense or unbridled sexual desire, which leads to fornication, adultery, rape, bestiality, un-natural sexual practices and other immoral sexual acts. However, lust could also mean simply desire in general; thus, lust for money, power, and other things are sinful. In accordance with the words of Henry Edward Manning, the impurity of lust transforms one into "a slave of the devil". Lust, if not managed properly, can subvert propriety. German philosopher Schopenhauer wrote as follows: Dante defined lust as the