Satan Reviews- Books: The Sin Eater's Daughter

The Sin Eater's Daughter

Melinda Salisbury

Scholastic Press

Warnings: Lots of swears and spoilers.
I actually had to discuss with my mum how many stars to give this. Some of the book I didn't like and other bits were okay, but my hatred of everything and pernickety nature won overall.

Warning: Sarcasm, spoilers (so I wouldn't read this review unless you've read the book, don't care about spoilers or you're not planning on reading the book), question marks, swearing (probably), very little structure and the phrase 'to be honest'.

This wasn't a pile of shit, let's put it that way. It did have potential and if there's a sequel, I might read it; Salisbury shouldn't stop writing because at least she has the knowledge that her book was better than Fallen although that wouldn't be hard.

Where was the plot for like 70% of the book???
Because anything literally anything but Fallen would have been better than reading about Twylla's praying and sewing while stuck in her bedroom for a crappy reason- Dorin (her guard) was ill from a bee sting.
That's right, a fucking bee sting.
And the queen thought it best for her to stay in her room because it's part of her evil plan to kill Twylla. Mwhahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This gives her chance to get to know her new guard, Lief, who is Tregellian- the kind of enemy of Lormere.
So he wasn't suspicious,

at all.

And of course they fell in lust love.

And because of teenager's 'uncontrollable hormones', says the teenager who is able to control herself better than these idiots she nearly touches him a lot Twylla is such a pervert, I swear. But why did none of the guards wear gloves until the end??? Or gloves and long sleeves??? If you're working with someone who supposedly is poisonous to touch, why wouldn't you wear gloves??? To be honest, that's fucking stupid.
Then because of these teenager's hormones we find out that Twylla's skin wasn't poisoned at all! This is where it really started going downhill. I was going along with the pathetic love story because it was forbidden in an interesting sense- they physically couldn't touch each other. But when you find out that they can touch each other, the fun is gone and the love story has become so fucking boring. Mostly because, it's like every ya romance= pathetic and unrealistic.

While this is going on Merek is trying to pull Twylla. He fails miserably. To be honest, he just annoys me. He's kinda wet and like a mummy's boy who's trying not to be a mummy's boy. Because she is a slightly scary if you were under her rule, not when you're a reader mother- dragon mother- who basically kills every who pisses her off. So I actually liked her (and her husband before she poisons him and he dies).

At some point during all of this Dorin dies from his bee sting if ya remember him by this point. And Twylla didn't question this for some reason. Probably because of one of her many unnecessary flashbacks- in this specific one, a child dies from a bee sting.

We mustn't forget about Twylla's mum, the Sin Eater (hence the title) and her sister Maryl because Twylla won't let you. She droned on and on about them even when it turned out that Maryl was dead and had been for two years at which point Merek acted like a dick.

Why were most of the women in Twylla's life evil??? The queen (obvs), her mum, some of the ladies of the court and Twylla tried to make poor Dimia look bad. The poor girl did nothing wrong!

'She's very pretty. I don't like her.'

That's not pathetic at all... Jesus Christ.

By the end, I was so desperate for some sort of decent plot twist. Admittedly a plot twist happened. Kinda. I guess. Eh. But it was stupid and made me want to gauge my own eyes out.

I gave this book 1 out of 5 stars.

{Apparently, I missed posting this review when I started this blog. Hey, it's here now.}