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.