A review by jlawens
The Sinner by Shantel Tessier

3.5

I just feel like Shantel did Ellie DIRTY in this book. I fully expected the darkness of it but wow…. Her dad “commits suicide” and she finds him only for him to not actually be dead… to make her addicted to drugs… to make her groomed and raped by her mothers new husbands and one of them wants to impregnate her *and her mother knew and didn’t do anything*… but also not only them but when she’s tied up by them other guys using her without her knowledge????? I just feel like she didn’t need ALL of that. She has a spark in her to be a bad bitch you can tell, but she wasn’t written like that almost at all. Oh and of course the people who try to kill her… I love Sins devotion to her and the spicy scenes are definitely unique I just struggled to get past everything done to Ellie and her helplessness by the end.