May Owens is sentenced to be a Sin Eater for stealing a loaf of bread. Now she is Unseen and Unheard, except when she is either taking a Recitation or Eating Sins
She manages to find the other Sin Eater in town and begins to learn her new 'trade'. Without speaking, without touching.
A cruel and grim fate for a young girl who was hungry.
Slowly she begins to learn to 'eat', and listens and watches as she does.
Class is no barrier for the Sin Eater, she attends the destitute and also the highest in the land. The danger is greatest when in the Royal Court, with all its plotting.
Megan Campisi keeps you on your edge as she draws you through the trials of May's life, her scrapes with death and the excitement of her escapades.
I found myself looking forward to my next free block of time to read, so that I could find out what was happening next.
This book gets a big FOUR stars from me. It is great.
"The sin eater walks among us. Unseen. Unheard,’ she says. ‘But I can see her—’ I hiss. ‘Unseen. Unheard,’ she silences."I received an e-ARC of this novel through NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. NetGalley does not allow for paid reviews.
4/5 Stars (What this means...five-stars-applied-carefully)
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An old adage says there are really only two stories: a man goes on a voyage, and a stranger arrives in town.
This is the third: a woman breaks the rules . . .
Can you uncover the truth when you’re forbidden from speaking it?
A Sin Eater’s duty is a necessary evil: she hears the final private confessions of the dying, eats their sins as a funeral rite, and guarantees their souls access to heaven.
It is always women who eat sins – a punishment, for it was Eve who first ate the Forbidden Fruit. Stained by the sins they are obliged to consume, the Sin Eater is shunned and silenced, doomed to live in exile at the edge of town.
Recently orphaned May Owens is just fourteen when she’s arrested for stealing a loaf of bread and sentenced to become a Sin Eater.
It’s a devastating sentence, but May’s new invisibility opens new doors. And when first one, then two, of the Queen’s courtiers suddenly grow ill, May hears their deathbed confessions – and begins to investigate a terrible rumour that is only whispered of amid palace corridors.
Set in a thinly disguised sixteenth-century England, The Sin Eater by Megan Campisi is a gripping story of treason and treachery; of secrets and silence; of women, of power – and, ultimately, of the strange freedom that comes from being an outcast . . .
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