Pages:
367
Publisher:
Scholastic
Release
Date: 4th
February 2016
Edition:
UK paperback,
review copy
Some
fairy tales should never come true…
Errin
knows the old story well: the Sleeping Prince, who rises from his slumber every
hundred year to wreak horror and bloodshed. She just never imagined he was
real.
As
this terrifying enemy rises and a war begins, Errin is forced to flee. With no
one to turn to, her only hope is the mysterious Silas, a man whose face she has
never seen…
The
Sin Eater’s Daughter was
one of my favourite debuts last year and the second book in the series, The Sleeping Prince, lived up to the
magic beautifully!
I have to admit that I don’t remember
much about what happens in The Sin Eater’s
Daughter – it was early on in a year where I read over 200 books – so I did
feel like I was missing some clues, references and tidbits that were revealed,
but it also made some of the reveals and twists more surprising so swings and
roundabouts!
I loved how The Sleeping Prince showed a different side to the world of the
first book: this was a place of poverty, fear and bartering for your life. I also
really loved Errin’s training as an apothecary. I love it when you see characters
mixing potions and collecting ingredients in fantasy for some reason! Add into
that the flashbacks, dreams that I wasn;t 100% convinced were just dreams and
flee from a deadly enemy and it felt like the perfect medieval fantasy!
The final third of The Sleeping Prince really drew together
Errin and Twylla’s story which was a lot of fun. It brought together the two
worlds and set two fierce heroines against a truly terrible enemy and is going
to culminate in what I think is going to be a properly epic third (and final?)
book. Plus, after that super cruel ending, I am so ready for it.
The
Sleeping Prince is
filled with magical worlds, deadly fairy tales and fantastic heroines. I can’t wait
for more from Melinda Salisbury.
Thanks to Faye Rogers PR and
Scholastic for the review copy. Don’t forget to check out the rest of the stops
on the blog tour – banner in my sidebar!
Sophie
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