What readers think of All the Sinners Bleed, plus links to write your own review.

This is my first Cosby novel and I will try one of his earlier ones for sure. All the Sinners is well written except for the abundance of cliche and a preachy tone that really was unnecessary and at times distracting. Very violent and graphic and was cluttered with way too many characters that felt like fillers for the plot. The novel has a depth to it that sets it apart from a lot of serial killer novels but somehow just felt out of balance to this reader.

ALL THE SINNERS BLEED did not meet my expectations. They were too high. That's because of all the awards S. A. Cosby won for this book. I suspect that ALL THE SINNERS BLEED won awards on the basis of its subject matter rather than its ability to grab readers and suck them in (which is what I think is required of an award-winning book).

You will read that this book is about a sheriff who solves a string of murders. And that's true. But the fact that the sheriff is black, the children murdered are black, and the murderer is--well, that would be a spoiler--is also what ALL THE SINNERS BLEED is about.

This book bored me. Therefore, it took me more than a week to finish reading.