Book Review: The Sin Eaters Daughter by Melinda Salisbury

Title: The Sin Eaters Daughter

Author:  Melinda Salisbury

Publisher: Scholastic

Release Date: March 1^st, 2015

ISBN: 1407147633 

Rating: 4/5

Cover Impressions: Green is my favourite colour so I love it.             

I received  an early review copy of this book from Scholastic in exchange for an honest review and was excited to read it because the whole kill with a single touch thing sounded like Shatter Me which I love. Thank you Sophia *waves*.

prince, and rule the kingdom. But the favor of the Gods has it's price. A deadly poison infuses her skin. Those who anger the queen must die under Twylla's fatal touch.

Only Lief, an outspoken new guard, can see past Twylla's chilling role to the girls she truly is. Yet in a court as dangerous and the queen's, some truths should not be told...

Review: Our story starts off with Twylla who is the Daunem Embodied, she is the daughter of two Gods who ruled over the sun and the darkness. The Sin Eater's Daughter. She is gifted (or cursed) with the killing touch. A tool to queen and country and engaged to Prince Merek of Lormere.

I love Twylla. Not because she was bad-ass and daring but because she was realistic, which is great to see, some YA books have female protagonists who are ready to face anything, anytime, have amazing weaponry and fighting skills without any experience and appear to be perfect. Twylla is not, which is awesome. But by the end of the book she is even more awesome because she goes through so much character development, Twylla really grows into herself and starts to take action.

I also love Lief (the love interest), although at first he was a little annoying with his perfectness, again, as with Twylla he blossomed towards the end with his love and protectiveness.

The plot for this story made my head hurt – in a good way. You expect one thing to happen and then BAM something entirely different takes its place, opening up an entirely new story line and inducing a completely different set of events than the ones you first envisioned happening. It was a roller coaster ride to say the least.

Overall, I give this book four out of five stars and I can’t wait to see what the sequel has to offer.