The Sinner by Emma Scott

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Shy, introverted Lucy Dennings lives a quiet little life in New York City, working for a nonprofit and keeping to herself.

Every afternoon, she goes home to her empty apartment and Edgar, her houseplant, and every night, she loses herself in the pages of her beloved romance novels. Her lonely heart seeks solace in tales of passionate, enduring, all-consuming love, but more and more, Lucy feels she’s not just reading for pleasure but searching for a lost piece of herself in the pages. As if she once touched something beautiful, but it’s been ripped away.

One day Lucy discovers a dead body in the alley behind her apartment. Even if it’s too late, her first instinct is to help. Her second is to run.

Because the dead body isn’t so very dead, and suddenly, her little world isn’t so little but one in which dreams feel like memories, “inner demons” lurk in dark alleys, and a beautiful creature of darkness with amber eyes and wings like night might hold the key to what her heart has been aching for… if she doesn’t fall down the path of eternal damnation first.

The Sinner

I liked the premise but my insomnia went away.

I tend to have insomnia during the week, so I listen to audiobooks at night when I am trying to sleep but can’t. This book, I listened to three nights in a row, but I actually fell asleep for once. More than once actually. The premise of the book was good and I liked the characters and the fact that there was some deep mystery about their past. Pretty much seemed like they had known each other well in Lucy’s previous lives. Cas is a demon and he has a connection to her. He apparently finds her in her current life, but his demon boss will only give him eleven days to be with her and Cas has to pay a price in pain for each of those days.

I liked how the story began but kept falling asleep halfway through and thinking I missed things so three days in a row, I started over. This time I got most of the way through the story, but again I missed things as I was falling asleep and I just don’t want to relisten again, so I think I will put this one down and maybe come back to it. Believe me, it wasn’t the story that put me to sleep, it was the fact that I was really tired. I still want to find out more about their relationship and see them end up together though.

The audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Zachary Johnson and they both did a fantastic job. I liked both of their voices and though this was mainly told from Lucy’s point of view, there were chapters told by Casziel as well. I did enjoy the fact that Cas told Lucy that he has done very bad things and wants to redeem himself. She has a good soul and though she too often listens to the demons in her ear that tell her she isn’t good enough, smart enough, or pretty enough, she is the best person for the job.

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