I wasn’t sure if I would like The Woman in the Window. I thought it might end up disappointing me like The Girl on the Train did, another novel about an “unreliable” narrator; however, I was pleased to find that I enjoyed The Woman in the Window and it kept me guessing until the end, unlike The Girl on the Train which I very disappointingly figured out the whodunnit not even half way through reading.
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Has anyone heard of sin-eating? I had no idea sin-eaters were an actual thing until I read Sin Eater by Megan Campisi. Of course, I had a go down the Google rabbit hole after I finished reading this novel to learn more about sin-eaters. It was an actual custom practiced in many countries, more particularly in Scotland, Wales and England, were a person, the sin-eater, would consume a ritual meal in order to take on the sins of a deceased person. The last known sin-eater apparently died in 1906. It is interesting the things that people believe in, and it is also interesting that anyone with such beliefs would willingly take on the role of sin-eater.
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