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The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda Salisbury
4.0
At heart, this is a dark fairy tale about Twylla, a girl whose divine powers cause her to kill with a single touch. She is kept by a wicked queen both as executioner and future monarch - for Twylla is to marry the prince. But her handsome and insightful new guard, Lief, throws everything off-course.
A couple of niggles. I didn't feel the characters were fully fleshed out at times, particularly the prince, Marek... and at various points, Twylla felt oddly passive for a heroine. (I liked Lief, though.) But first and foremore, this is a gripping and immersive story - I couldn't put it down. There are some great new ideas too (e.g. sin eating!) which lend the fantasy an unusual flavour, so to speak... Plenty of twists and turns (a couple I anticipated, but others were proper shockers) and some lovely writing too.
Book 2, please?
A couple of niggles. I didn't feel the characters were fully fleshed out at times, particularly the prince, Marek... and at various points, Twylla felt oddly passive for a heroine. (I liked Lief, though.) But first and foremore, this is a gripping and immersive story - I couldn't put it down. There are some great new ideas too (e.g. sin eating!) which lend the fantasy an unusual flavour, so to speak... Plenty of twists and turns (a couple I anticipated, but others were proper shockers) and some lovely writing too.
Book 2, please?
One Silver Summer by Rachel Hickman
5.0
One Silver Summer is a perfect escapist read. Set on the gorgeous Cornish coast, full of rocky beaches and crumbling castles, the story follows Sass as she battles her grief over her mother’s death and learns to live all over again. The central relationships between Sass and the boy she grows to love, Alex – and the beautiful silver horse who brings them together – are sensitively drawn, and the writing has a lovely wistful quality. A satisfying contemporary story of love, loss, and finding who you really are, with a thrilling fairy-tale twist.