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The Sinner by Shantel Tessier

68 reviews

taaay's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Rape

Moderate: Suicide

lotta_lip's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This book challenged me on so many levels! I had to take multiple breaks reading it. Sin was to much for me! He crossed so many lines (yet he’s still got me to like him). Elli is an incredibly strong yet broken character that I just wanted to hug. I shed a few tears reading this book. Definitely a tense read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Alcohol, Violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, and Drug use

pericurran's review

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

Omfg this book was so frustrating. Girlie had no self respect at ANY POINT and literally every traumatic situation just ended w basically rapey sex between the MC's. Literally everyone sucked and if I could've I would've dnf'ed at 20% LOL also 0 character development from ANYONE it was literally like reading a Wattpad book from 2014 but w excessive sex scenes that weren't even that great. Anyways kinda sad bc there seemed to be potential for a good book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Addiction, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Emotional abuse

kaadee's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

Sin is a rapey asshole who makes me angry. He’s a terrible character who deserves n o t h i n g. 

Terrible book but at least Tyson was hot for the 2 seconds he was there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Drug use, Torture, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Gore, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

nitarra's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Kidnapping and Child abuse

peeshy's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Rape, Stalking, Addiction, Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Vomit, Child abuse, Drug use, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, and Murder

vikrose's review

challenging dark emotional tense fast-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

3.75

I was looking forward to this book and I may have overhyped it for myself. It takes talent to write a book like this and tie up all the loose ends created through the story. However, there simply didn’t need to be THAT MANY twists and turns. Certainly can say this book was unpredictable. The ending made me happy though, so it’s worth it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Physical abuse, Violence, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Death of parent

leasasaa's review

dark fast-paced

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

1.0

No.
Romanticising rape, sexual assault, abuse, grooming and manipulation doesn't make it fine. It's not a 'dark romance' it's just rape. 
When he said 'One with no voice, can't say no.' in the second chapter I was already done but I just wanted to see how bad it could get and oh god does it get so much worse.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Death, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Addiction, Blood, Vomit, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Stalking, Death of parent, Torture, Violence, and Physical abuse

teebearrr's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.75

I was excited to continue the rest of this series after book one, but after this - i’m going to need a little break before starting the sacrifice 🥲 it took about 200 pages of smut before it started picking up on the plot. don’t get me wrong, i love me a good smutty book but when theres 600 pages you be surprise of whats considered too much 😅 the sinner was definitely darker then the ritual so make sure to heed trigger warnings before diving in. there were lots of plot twists and the story kept taking a turn; i felt like sin & ellie was never going to get a break! ellie’s story was truly a sad one.. my heart ached for her while reading. once the book picked up for me, i was deeply invest & wanted more after every chapter. there were some questionable things that Sin did with/to ellie but it seems like this is the pattern of how the Lords are in this series.. safe to say though, ryat is still my favorite! i was also very intrigued with the spade brothers so i can’t wait for carnage’s release.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Blood, Sexual content, Bullying, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, and Sexual violence

Minor: Pregnancy, Pedophilia, and Suicidal thoughts

sandyra513's review against another edition

2.0

Definitely not a book I’d recommend. It’s very dark, and has no sense of right and wrong. The dark side of this book is beyond triggering. ESPECIALLY to anyone with SA trauma. It’s also unrealistic in terms of how easily the FMC recovers from everything that happens to her, over and over again.

⚠️spoilers ahead and TW⚠️

The FMC gets literally raped by every male character in the book except her actual father. I wish I was exaggerating. It also glorifies rape and violence. There’s a difference between consensual BDSM violence which has limits and whatever this book offers up.

Also, I’m a bit annoyed because by the description of this book alone, you’d think this is a dark fantasy spicy book which includes like demons and Lords and magic… there’s none of that. It’s just a bunch of highly toxic murderous men (rapists is a better word) who treat women like meat and kill a bunch of people…. All for 🐈. Like what?! No explanation on how these assholes became powerful and why they never get in trouble. But I feel like even if there was that explanation, it wouldn’t have mattered.

This is definitely a DNR for me. Very reminiscent of Melt for Us, which is another book that glorified rape and murder. 🤮

Only reason I’m giving it 2 stars instead of one is the effort that went into it? I don’t even know.

⚠️⚠️SA TW AND SPOILER ALERT⚠️⚠️

Honestly, I have no words… beyond the glorification of rape and murder, there’s nothing substantial about this book. Not the “spice”, not the story, not even fantasy and kink.

Review: 2⭐️s (just for the effort that went into it, but it deserves a one star tbh)
Spice Meter: VERY TOXIC SA GRAPHIC SCENES. No Spice.

Themes:
- Daddy (not the sexy kind)
- Violent BDSM
- Sexual Assault
- Rape
- Murder
- Torture
- Forced Pregnancy
- Mask
- “Lord” : which has nothing to do with magic/fantasy. Just a bunch of highly toxic asshole men running around raping and killing ppl… for the 🐈!
- Stalking
- Gaslighting and Manipulation
- Toxic parents

Recommend?: HELL TO THE NO! Not to anyone, but especially not to any SA survivour.

#TheSinner #shanteltessier #Sin #Ellie #bookstagram #booktok #doNOTrecommend

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Murder, Pregnancy, Torture, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Sexism, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Rape, and Sexual harassment