Welcome to Litsy!

Alternate Elizabethan England where a young woman May is saved from the noose only to be sentenced as a Sin Eater.

Sin Eaters listen to others confess their sins and then eat the foods that represent that sin to cleanse the sinner and allow them entry to heaven. In her role May discovers there is little difference between the sinners in jail and those of the nobility.

Interesting and weird found the good lists fascinating and 🤢

A Sin Eater hears people‘s recitations of their sins and then eats the meals according to the sin. May is sentenced to become one but then she finds strengths and a sense of belonging in the role.

I was really intrigued by the premise of this book and wasn‘t sure what to expect. The first half of the book was very good but it lacked something for me at the end… I wasn‘t expecting it to become a murder mystery type of story.

“I curse this fountain, I think to the square. I curse it‘s water. I gaze from shuttered window to shuttered window. From this time forth, it will be known as the Sin Eater‘s Fountain. None shall drink from it or wash in it or touch it again. Except me. Because I can‘t be cursed. I am a curse.”

you can never speak again. you can never be hugged, touched, looked at. you must ingest the darkest sins humanity can commit, cleansing them of evil and taking it into yourself. this was so dark, so heartbreaking, but may remains hopeful and curious after becoming a sin eater. even when she loses someone in devastating circumstances, she persists. i loved her.

Good storytelling, decent plot

It‘s been such a busy week, and therefor my worst reading week for #Scarathlon so far. I started The Shining and The Birds That Stay but haven‘t finished either…. I decided to start this one instead 😂

So far it‘s that perfectly weird mix that has intrigued me this month. I have high hopes for this one🖤 #TeamSlaughter

156-2020 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
May is saved from the noose but appointed to be a sin eater. Sin eaters hearing the confessions of the dying, take on their sins once eating the prescribed foods after their deaths. Sin Eaters are only to speak during recitations and only using their scripted words. What happens when a deer heart appears on a coffin when the dying person didn't confess to that sin? And therein is the mystery in this story.

So annoying when a #netgalley #arc is all over the place. I can cope with an odd page number or chapter heading appearing where it shouldn‘t but this is just ridiculous.

The first chapter was fine then it all went wrong so I checked the whole book 👎

It‘s only the second time it‘s happened to me but still.... ggrr and other growly stuff.

#netgalleyreviewathon

And another square ticked off on #bookspinbingo, as even bails count - right?!

This was a really enjoyable read, a story like nothing else I‘ve read before.

May is thrown into her life as a sin eater and she has to learn quick, it‘s do or die. Discovering a secret so dangerous that it‘s a threat to her life leaves her determined to find the truth. A story about a girl who finds herself abandoned by her family but somehow finds the strength to become someone with power and a reason to live.

4/5 ⭐️

#mystery #medieval

This is one of my favorite books of 2020! Profound! A young girl becomes a Sin Eater a socially banished women who eats the sins of the town folk.who die their sins in turn become her sins and so these people go to meet their maker son free. This was a wild story. I sat down and read it in one sitting! Magnificent!

P.S there was a movie made by a similar name in 2007 called The Last Sin Eater.

P.S.S Sin Eaters did exist in the 20th Century.