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The Sinner by Shantel Tessier

40 reviews

taija_p's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

loganswifey's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

satanshomosexualagenda's review

adventurous challenging 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
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion

_shelvs's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment

ablossomedrose's review

dark emotional 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

larndarn's review

There comes a point where there it toooo much sex and you can’t even figure out what the plot is about. I was hoping for another Ryat and was so incredibly disappointed with who we got :/ may or may not give the third one a try

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

bookwarrior's review

This book disgusts me. I read through first book in the series and expected something dark but this was just disturbing. 
Sin did nothing for helping her through her past and emulated a lot if the characteristics of her past abusers
My heart ached reading what Elli was going through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

booknerdcoco's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

4.75

By no means, my favourite out of the Lords series, but it is still thoroughly enjoyable. 

Even though it is a standalone novel. I liked how it is interconnected to the other books in the series, and reading these does provide some context so highly recommended reading in order.

I felt the flow and the pace of the book were spot on. Love the plot twist towards the end, and in the epilogue, I didn't see that coming!!
The dual pov is well written. Keeping on track of who is narrating the story is fairly straightforward.

Very dark themes that were difficult to read due to the content, so please check trigger warnings.

Another banger from Miss Tessier.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

car_car22's review

challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

I wish I could give it 10 stars! I absolutely LOVED THIS BOOK! I thought I loved the first one but this one was 100%%%% better! I loved the character development and the plot… and the incorporation of characters to where we know they are stand alones and yet we love them all the same! The backstory, love and change, commitment and the SPICE 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Sin is amazing and you should read this if you like dark romance but please check Trigger Warnings! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

christikb's review

challenging dark emotional 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

2.75

Alright, y'all, I have even more thoughts about The Sinner than I did about The Ritual and they aren't necessarily quite as positive. To catch everybody up to speed about the series: the L.O.R.D.S. are a hereditary fraternity society filled with rich edgelords that are initiated into a vast murder cult over three years of abstinence and homicide ; in their senior year, they receive a chosen, a (mostly-willing) participant in the Lord's dark romance fantasies. These are their stories (*insert Law & Order gavel sound here*). The Sinner is Sin (Easton Sinnet) and Elli's story and it is so much more dark than The Ritual. Our FMC is a sexual abuse survivor...and that's not even the darkest part of our story. Sin is one GIANT red flag, somehow even more so than Ryat, and he's intensely protective of Sin (aww, sweet) unless he's the one making her cry (less sweet). He would absolutely die for her and does his damnedest to prove that fact, which is simultaneously heartwarming and -breaking. Elli's story is...god, so freaking rough from the beginning. She was groomed from a young age and is trying to outgrow her grooming, however, she keeps getting surrounded by Lords who are nebulous (at best) on the subject of consent. To escape her devastating emotional, physical, and mental trauma, she uses drugs prolifically and engages in ever-increasingly physical BDSM play that not only toes the line of consent but sometimes bounds effortlessly across it. I'll be honest; it's a thorough, fairly chilling portrayal of a spiraling sexual assault victim and, although I'm not sure if that was necessarily the intent, it drives home the point time and again, making this an extremely difficult and emotional book to read. Elli overcame a bunch of her trauma and embraced her bad b*itch self, but it's about 90% of the book before we get there. It also reads a bit like a soap opera because the hits never stop coming. Bad thing 1 resolved? Nope, think again, Bad Thing 2 is here plus Bad Thing 1 has mutated. Silver lining here: Tyson Crawford continues to be my precious, problematic assassin dad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment