The Sin Eater’s Daughter
Melinda Salisbury
Twylla has been chosen to save her kingdom by the God and her duty is to perform the services deserved by treasonous vipers in the country – she lays hands on them and they die from the poison in her skin. No-one can touch her but the royal family – and one of the perks is marrying into it to continue the bloodline.
The cover on this book is beautiful, and made me want to read the novel as soon as possible. Sadly though, judging a book by its cover doesn’t always turn out well…
Twylla lacks a spine. She lacks the ability to question what is going on around her, and she lacks the ability to communicate with people her feelings. She sometimes seems to lack feelings at all, except regret. She even admits she feels nothing for her mother!
Oh yes, let’s just have a quick word about the love triangle. Is there even one there? Is this like a ‘Frozen’ love story, where it looks like she loves both of them and can’t choose? It’s pretty clear that Twylla falls in love pretty instantly, and gets suckered in by the first man who treats her as a person.
That Queen is nothing but a bit of bad work. How refreshing to see a monarch who is going to do the whole Oedipus thing for her son without even blinking an eye. Enough said, or I’ll spoilt the plot.
The Sin Eaters of the kingdom are fascinating. When someone dies, their sins are visualised as food, and the Sin Eater is called to eat those sins so that the person doesn’t wander. What I wondered was how many Sin Eaters there were, and how isolated the practice was. Surely one woman can’t eat that many sins with the death rate present in those sorts of society?
Apparently this is the first book in the series. I think I would actually like to read the next in the series – maybe the author will have fixed the pacing issues, and given a bit more thought as to making a more independent heroine. 3 stars for this one from me.
Interesting premise..I wonder how many there are too. The cover is gorgeous. I may hold off to see reviews of book two. Thanks for sharing!
I can’t find anything about when book 2 will be released, but I’m hoping a copy will wing my way from the publisher 😉
I was so excited to start this one, but sadly it ended up being another book I couldn’t finish unfortunately. The plot was incredibly slow moving and while the premise sounded dark and delicious, I found it a bit too ‘Selection’ like, dressing up and being the prize of the kingdom type scenario. I wanted to like it, but it was just so boring and moved far too slowly. Glad you were able to enjoy it somewhat, despite the issues you had with it too. Wonderful review! <3
So glad I’m not the only one who found this novel not up to scratch! It being so predictable made it boring for me too 🙁
The idea for this story and the beautiful cover make me want to pick this up, so I’m sorry to hear that the execution wasn’t that good!
There are better things you could be reading, trust me! Have a look through my archives, I’ve reviewed a couple of other novels in the same vein that are better, even if their covers aren’t as pretty 😉
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