White Horse, Red Fruit

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English language

Published Dec. 4, 2023 by Subterranean Press.

3 stars (1 review)

Ava is a sin eater. This responsibility requires her to consume the final sins of the dead so that those sins don’t cause the dead to return from their graves. Often this means she is burdened with secrets that she’d rather not know. Yet even a sin eater doesn’t know all the secrets of the dead, and sometimes those secrets rise up from the ground themselves.

2 editions

reviewed White Horse, Red Fruit by Kat Howard

Eating the sins of the newly dead is no easy task.

3 stars

An interesting story involving a sin-eater, a person who eats the sins of a newly dead person, so that the dead person won't have a reason to return from the dead. In this story, she has to eat the sins of a friend, but things don't turn out as expected: she gets called to the underworld by her friend to do one final task for her. Agreeing to the task would cause a disruption to both the living and the dead that can only be resolved by a confrontation.