6.6 /10 1 Votes
Originally published 5 February 2015 Genre Fantasy Publisher Scholastic Corporation | 3.5/5 Goodreads Language English Followed by The Sleeping Prince Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print, e-book, audiobook No. of books 3 novels, one short story Similar The Sleeping Prince, The Orphan Queen, The Winner's Crime, The Darkest Part of th, The Glass Arrow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Sin Eater's Daughter is a young adult fantasy trilogy that was written by Melinda Salisbury and published by Scholastic Press. The first book in the trilogy, The Sin Eater’s Daughter, was published on 24 February 2015 and marked Salisbury's first book in print. The second book in the series, The Sleeping Prince, was published the following year along with a short story, "The King of Rats". The final book in the trilogy, The Scarecrow Queen, is slated to release in 2017.
Contents
The series follows the character of Twylla, a young girl that is engaged to marry her kingdom's prince, but is shunned due to her ability to kill with only a touch of her hand.
The Sin Eater’s Daughter
Twylla is a teenage girl engaged to marry Merek, the prince of Lormere and as such, lives in the castle with him and his mother, the Queen as well as the King, the Queens cousin. This would seem like something she would be happy about, except that Twylla is the embodiment of a goddess and as long as she eats a deadly mixture of her own blood and Morningsbane once a month, is capable of killing a person by just touching them. This isolates her from others around her, especially as she is expected to use her abilities as a death sentence. To everyone except the royal family her touch is a painful death. She is alone and sad looking to her gods for help until however a new guard arrives, Leif. He and Twylla begin to bond and fall in love - a dangerous move, as the Queen is a murderous and unstable adversary.
The Sleeping Prince
The second book in the series follows Errin, the sister of Lief, one of the protagonists from the prior novel. His disappearance has caused her no end of misery, especially as their mother is very sick and Errin has to resort to illegal measures in order to pay their rent. This last part becomes moot after the Queen launches a war surrounding the Sleeping Prince and Errin loses her home, as her village is forcibly evacuated. Her only solace is Silas, a young man she knows very little about.
Television adaptation
In April 2016 the independent television company Little Island optioned the Sin Eater's Daughter trilogy with the intent to adapt it for television.
Reception
The New York Times praised the first book in the series for its "well-imagined fantasy world". Common Sense Media rated The Sin Eater's Daughter at three out of five stars, commenting that while the book's writing was strong,they felt that its heroine was overly weak.
MuggleNet reviewed the trilogy's second book, The Sleeping Prince, favorably and wrote that they enjoyed the book's heroine Errin.