The Sin Eaters Daughter by Melinda Salisbury Review
The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda Salisbury
Book 1 of The Sin Eater's Daughter series
Publisher: Scholastic
Publication Engagement: February 24, 2015
Rating: 2 stars
Source: ARC sent past the publisher
Summary (from Goodreads):
Seventeen-yr-one-time Twylla lives in the castle. But although she's engaged to the prince, Twylla isn't exactly a fellow member of the court.
She'south the executioner.
As the Goddess embodied, Twylla instantly kills anyone she touches. Each month she's taken to the prison and forced to lay her hands on those accused of treason. No i will always love a girl with murder in her veins. Even the prince, whose purple blood supposedly makes him immune to Twylla's fatal touch, avoids her company.
Merely then a new baby-sit arrives, a boy whose piece of cake smile belies his deadly swordsmanship. And unlike the others, he's able to look by Twylla'due south executioner robes and run across the girl, not the Goddess. However Twylla's been promised to the prince, and knows what happens to people who cross the queen.
However, a treasonous hush-hush is the least of Twylla'due south problems. The queen has a program to destroy her enemies, a program that requires a stomach-churning, unthinkable cede. Will Twylla practice what it takes to protect her kingdom? Or volition she abandon her duty in favor of a doomed dearest?
What I Liked:
Huge instance of Alyssa-is-the-black-sheep, with this novel. To be fair, I was actually, really excited to read this volume, for months. I think seeing the words "seductive fantasy", and was sold. And of form, the cover is gorgeous. The concept of a touch killing people isn't new, but I haven't read too many books with this concept (Kresley Cole'southward Arcana Chronicles features Aric with this ability) - I haven't read the Shatter Me series (soon though!).
Twylla was a commoner - the Sin Eater's daughter - until the royal took her in, because she is Daunen Embodied. She can kill with her touch, she has toxicant in her claret. She has killed many men, for treason, include her one and only friend. Twylla is a prisoner, engaged to the prince, slave to the queen. When a new baby-sit is hired to protect Twylla, he makes her question who she is - or who she has been told she is. With or without the baby-sit's help, Twylla must realize the danger that lies in the kingdom before the queen destroys everything and takes it all for herself.
I think the beginning of this book started really strongly. I was completely sucked in and wanted to know more about Daunen Embodied, the kingdoms' conflicts, the Sin Eating. I think the world-building is very well done - probably the best thing about this book. And Twylla'southward initial characterization (her guilt over killing so many people, including her all-time friend). I remember my issues began when the guard - Lief - is introduced.
What I Did Not Like:
When Dorin - Twylla'due south guard - falls ill, the queen hires a new guard, a Tregellian (from a neighboring enemy kingdom). I did not like Lief from the start. He is also childish, too stupid, besides familiar. He speaks out of plow all the time, and disrespectfully so, to Twylla. I know Tywlla is alone and kindhearted, but if my NEW, TREGELLIAN baby-sit was speaking to me like that - I wouldn't be put at ease. And so he always apologizes (like an imbecile), and is always in Twylla'southward personal space. Something about him really irked me (and we find out why, in the end), but something about Twylla letting him practice what he wants irritated me too.
Likewise, tell me why a Baby-sit serves a lady her nutrient on a tray, or delivers messages, like a mutual courier. Guards are supposed to be stationed outside one's door, never leaving his post. Instead, information technology is Lief who is bringing her food, and messages, and entering her room like he owns the identify. That's what FEMALE SERVANTS are for... correct me if I'k incorrect, only I know plenty about medieval history and fantasy to understand this bones concept.
Okay and then I basically hated Lief from the showtime. Something near his grapheme, his being, is and so wrong. I don't sympathise how others like him and then much - he seems similar a cartoon character or something, to exist honest. Very i-dimensional and childish. He is never a GUARD to me - not once does he accept to prove himself as a guard (pregnant, not in one case does he really perform his guard duties), and he's e'er "smiling" and "teasing" and "winking" at Twylla. Guard much? No. Aaaand, insta-love. There is that too.
To make matters worse, there is a love triangle. Oh, yes. We already know that Twylla is engaged to the prince (the queen's son and king's stepson). Twylla doesn't actually like him (he's the queen's son), merely it would seem that he falls for her. Twylla (stupidly) falls for Lief, someone who spouts pretty words and flexes a few muscles, and has her in his lap like nothing. Talk most insta-love, in terms of Lief and Twylla.
There really isn't much "Twylla and Merek" (the prince), considering Twylla is and so caught up in Lief (why), simply information technology'south obvious that the prince won't surrender. Good for him. Although, this is one of those cases where I wish Twylla would end upwardly lone. Or die, even. I wouldn't heed. I don't hate her, but a tragic story is fine, too. That won't happen, though.
After the initial earth-edifice and whatnot in the beginning, my interest tunneled. When Lief was introduced into the story (which is like, forty pages into the volume), I was similar, here nosotros go. Dumb daughter falls for idiot boy, everyone rebel and save the kingdom. Barf.
Here's something else that bothered me: the whole fake-princess-and-evil-queen affair is really grating on my fretfulness. A mutual girl is taken in by the purple family unit and engaged to the prince but then she falls for someone who isn't the prince OMG! This volume. Red Queen. A Wicked Matter. All iii books coming out in Feb 2015. All three featuring an evil queen, a commoner-turned-princess, an appointment between that girl and the prince, a love story with the girl and another guy... and a rebellion to rid the kingdom of the tyrant queen (and possibly rex).
And so OVERUSED. And then CLICHE. I'Thou Sick OF ALL OF THAT. Perhaps this is circumstantial. Perhaps not. I'g actually sick of those plot arcs though. Tin we terminate with evil queens and rebellions and twisted love triangles? Thank you.
The story kind of goes downhill after the big reveal, too. First of all, the big reveal is revealed in such a pointless, anticlimactic, thrown-in-there way. Twylla gets mad and paranoid for no reason, and so the big reveal happens. And and then I got actually REALLY bored, considering things about Twylla'due south power every bit Daunen Embodied were revealed. I similar things as they were, in the premise of the novel. Once other things were revealed, I was like, snooze...
And so things become all nigh the evil queen existence evil and wanting to overthrow the kingdom and ally the prince (her son) to preserve bloodlines. Yep. I was pretty much done by that bespeak.
Would I Recommend It:
Not really. This is a huge instance of pretty-cover-lures-all-and-disappoints. At to the lowest degree, for me. In that location are a bazillion positive reviews on Goodreads, and I know I'm one of the few that didn't enjoy the volume, and then there's plenty of promise for you all the same!
Rating:
ii stars. I'll probably pass on the adjacent volume - I'll expect until the synopsis is revealed, and and then make that decision. Synopses are important, yo.
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