Sins are visible manifestations of guilt that can be extracted, fought, and eaten by an enslaved underclass of sin-eaters who spend much of their time consuming the sins of the rich. WHAT A CONCEPT! DAMN! Unfortunately the execution is lacking. The world building is quite good, and the cover art is amazing, but that's about all we get.
We don't get good characters, there's no reason to really care about any of them. Their motivations are unknown. Taj tells us he's in love with someone and it comes as a surprise because despite being inside his head there was no build-up to that statement and if feels unbelieveable.
We don't get good pacing, time seems to expand and contract all over the place. Taj breaks ribs and an ankle and then seemingly in the same day is back to super-athletic fighting of sin-beasts and it's never mentioned again. All of a sudden Taj is an important member of the royal household, how did that happen?
The ending is a ridiculous cliffhanger, but the next book was out, so I was less mad than people who read this when the first one came out :) The world was just good enough to make me want to see if the next one was any better.
3 stars.
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