Reviews with content warning for Vomit - The Sinner

Ellington was a hard character to connect with. She's been through a lot, but it annoyed me how often she turned to drugs and let herself be hurt.
Sin.... not better than Ryat. I wanted to punch him after the halfway point. It got very confusing with the secrets, but when the story unfolded... it was astounding.

It's super spicy.

I can't wait to read The Sacrifice and Carnage.

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adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.0

I went from absolutely not to completely engrossed. I’ve giving this a 4 star simply because of how it kept me freaking engrossed in the book.

There were a lot of red flag moments and just so many absolutely not moments but I just felt the need for Elli to have her winning moment. The things that she had to go through consistently as a kid through to adulthood was just absolutely disgusting and sad. Some men can be so vile. This book is extremely TW heavy, even more so than the first book.

I wouldn’t say the plot of the book is missing. It’s there, but the plot was mainly focused on Elli so we don’t really see much of the LORDS world as compared to the first book. In book one there was more exploration of this world but in this one, it was certainly more focused on the characters.

The “love” is intense, psychotic and painful but who am I to yuck someone’s yum 😅 the spicy scenes tend to be really brutal, painful and exhausting and I think that’s just me pushing my limits and boundaries.

But overall? I would say it got my attention. It is absolutely and most definitely insanely dark and a vast difference in darkness from book 1 to 2.

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

okay so i reallyyyy loved the ritual and after seeing fanart of sin, i had to read the sinner as well, but holy hell i was kinda disappointed with this book. i mean, the spice was quite nice sometimes but i absolutely hated that sin did almost everything without elli's consensus. there really was some fucked up shit in this book and i say that as a girly who LOVES dark romance...but hell, this was sometimes even too much for me, like bruh 80% of the book felt like sin should be kept in a single room deep in a psychiatry. while i do understand some reasonings behind the things he did (to elli), i hated most of them and found it really fucked up at times. i also felt like elli was, even though her backstory was ultimately tragic, was such a weak character and even sin, who claimed that he loved her and all, didn't care for her mental problems and never even thought about getting her to a therapist? weird for someone who says they love you, nope he was like "i'll fuck her up some more and she'll be fine". and they never even talked about things?! nah they just fucked them away. idk but i'm just not that happy with their relationship. the story itself was, however, quite good at times and really fucking dramatic. i liked how everything came together in the end, but still, i expected more from the book after reading the ritual. ryat will stay my no. 1 lord for the time being but i must say i'm quite excited for tyson's book, so glad he got one after all his help in the first two books. ps:

why is shantel so obsessed with getting the women pregnant? i get the being obsessed with my girl vibe but duh i just hate the pregnancy trope so much and really didn't need it twice in a row. and why tf do all the kids in these books have such weird names?!!

also: read the trigger-warnings!!

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