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Sin Eater by Megan Campisi

7 reviews

shawniejo's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, and Physical abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Infertility, and Sexual harassment

katclaybaugh's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I give this a 4.25/5 stars. This book was extremely tender, and there were some parts that made my heart ache to read. I loved reading her internal dialogue as she made her way through the world as a sin eater and grappled with what that meant. 

It was a great premise, and I loved most of it. There were moments when I had to fight to suspend my disbelief for the sin eater overhearing certain conversations between members of the court. 

I also thought this book would’ve been more powerful if the focus of the novel was more entirely on May the sin eater and less on the court of Queen Elizabeth I aka Queen “Bethany”. It felt like the mystery at the court was a bit of a gimmick to mimic popular royal intrigue plot lines to keep us engaged. I felt like the character of May already had so much depth and the role of a sin eater was already so fascinating that the court intrigue felt unnecessary and overwhelmed the parts of this book that were truly special and unique. 

Keeping the world more focused on May and less on the court would’ve allowed deeper explorations of the thematic aspects of - I had especially hoped for more exploration of her relationship to the Instrument Maker as a Jewish man who didn’t believe in sin eating. 

Overall this premise was so unique and was an engaging, tender, dark but not unbearable sort of read, that I really enjoyed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Death, Ableism, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Torture, and Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Grief, Miscarriage, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Ableism, Abortion, Rape, and Violence

Minor: Infidelity, Infertility, Classism, Animal death, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Incest, Alcohol, Antisemitism, and Xenophobia

gingerchew22's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Violence, Domestic abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

bookedbymadeline's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

5.0

Really intriguing and unique story! I did not know this bit of history of sin eaters, and loved learning about it. The story is set around a fictionalized version of England with some minor basis in historical fact (Queen Bethany=Elizabeth, Bloody Maris=Bloody Mary).

The plot twists were great and unexpected! The characters were well written and I enjoyed watching May grow throughout the novel. I also loved the writing style and the pacing was well done, I didn’t want to put this one down! The ending was also perfect for this novel. It wrapped things up with the main plot but left things open character wise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Grief, Vomit, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Torture, Rape, and Pedophilia

becca_w_'s review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Classism, Ableism, Body shaming, Death, Grief, Animal death, Gore, Body horror, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Confinement, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Pedophilia, Abandonment, Sexism, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Misogyny, Vomit, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, and Slavery

Minor: Rape and Adult/minor relationship

aliteracja's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Classism, and Bullying

Minor: Violence, Torture, Kidnapping, and Physical abuse

christoco's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Murder, Rape, Death of parent, Vomit, Child death, and Sexual violence

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Incest, Infertility, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, and Torture