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The Sinner

Shantel Tessier

3.82 AVERAGE

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manasueroo's review

3.5
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense

I only liked this less because of the heavy ass content. Took dark to a whole new level. The sexy stuff was pretty hot though, I’ll give sin that much.
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itsbellaslibrary's review

3.5
dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is the second book in this series and I still believe they are a cult and that these books are a perfect example of the way women are disregarded and the depth of toxic masculinity that women have to deal with. Trigger warnings are valid read with caution. I do not recommend for women who have been abused or SA’d. This is Dark and very descriptive. 

Okay this was another rollercoaster of a story.

I have so many thoughts.

Elli has been trained for the wrong reasons She’s unknowingly, served, alone to the predators by her OWN mother. The things she has been through was tragically inhuman. She has it ROUGH
challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Another Dark Romance for the win! Even though this was a reread I still loved it just as much as before. I absolutely loved this one. Such a dark story with trigger warning that I just used as a shopping list. I really enjoyed this one and am in awe of how the author was able to describe the character and just hit every time. Narrators were sooooo good!

What the fuck was this ???
Are authors too dense to put proper trigger warnings ? If you're scared people wont read your shit if you put trigger warnings then don't write such a messed up book.

This was so promising and the whole premise is good but so very badly executed ,having rape as the main plot is not it. There is sexual assault , rape or CSA mentioned or graphically happening in every chapter and even had the MMC rap the fmc who is a rape and csa survivor. Like i get that it's her backstory but it's too much especially that the mmc did it several times too while " protecting " her and when she was drugged and passed out . He knew she was raped HE EVEN RAPED HER and he still shamed her for it and called her a whore and side fuck TO A RAPE VICTIME THAT HE SUPPOSEDLY LOVED.

The heroine was also made out to be this sex crazed druggie and victime blamed her ALOT but that's literally a trauma reponse to being rapped as a kid.

This book would have been MILES better if it was just a dark secret society book and even then it would have been average because they secret society part and all the fucked up shit they do was basic she mostly focused on them degreading and raping women ( as stated above ) and 0 plot or depth for ACTUAL secret societies , but this is NOT a dark romance because there was no romance involved so putting it in this genre just makes the author problematic.

This one didn’t catch my attention as much as the first one did immediately, but as soon as I had a day to sit down and read, I was immediately hooked. There were some plot twists closer to the end for Elli and her life that I would’ve never expected, and it was difficult to put the book down after that point. Recommend reading the trigger warnings for the book just in case, but excellent book nonetheless

The Sinner
By Shantel Tessier

5 ABSOLUTLEY TWISTED STARS!!!!


Make sure you read all the TW at the front of the book.

Then hold on for a wild ride.

“You are my treat, little demon.” He kisses the tape that’s over my mouth as it they are my lips. “And you will do as I say.”

I VOW, YOU VOW, WE VOW.

As usual Shantel likes to keep us on our guessing what is going to happen next. There are plenty of twists and turns, you will never see the end coming. Sin is in his game, and owned being a Lord. Elli is the perfect FMC. Chef’s kiss!!!!

hagilyforever's review

5.0
dark emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated