The Sin Eater's Daughter Character Analysis

Melinda Salisbury is a younbg adult fiction author from the West Midlands that has made a name for herself with The Sin Eater's Daughter series of novels. Growing up, Melinda always dreamt of becoming a veterinary practitioner as she always loved animals. She even hada fantasy of being arrested for breaking into a test facility to illegally release the animals kept there. Nonetheless she was also an elaborarte world builder in her childhood and would fiddle with decorative glass stones organising them into green for villains, blue for armioes, yellow for servants, and red for royals. She would also act out love affairs between queens and jesters, and princes and witches. She would spend days or even weeks tweaking and building a plot and world …show more content…
The novels do send the message that while it is critical that men and women stand up for their beliefs and for themselves, some people are not cut out to be so upfront. Some people may be brave in a lot of different ways even if one of those ways is walking away. Melinda's characters are not learning to be brave but rather have a strong moral compass and souls of steel from the get go. Twylla and Errin the lead characters of the series are the Neville Longbottom of the young adult world. While Twylla starts out as gullible, naive, and obedient child, she is a brave girl who is not afraid to think for herself and ask all the tought questions. She can be really ignorant, selfish, and a brat and makes bad choices and mistakes but as she learns about the world, she comes to disover that some things are bigger than her wants or needs. Like her creator, Twylla is very much a typical seventeen year old with all the insecurioties and strict parents that would never let her have the fredom she craved. Still Twylla refuses to be broken and bends and flexes with all the pressure and weight. She never loses hope and inspite of all the loneliness and terror manages top remain open hearted and retain hope. Errin the other character in the series is a determined girl forever marching on toward her fgoals. Just like Twylla she will enduresnow, …show more content…
Twylla is a sixteen year old girl modelled on the Rapunzel imprisoned in a castle narrative. She is engaged to be married to the pricne but finds herself very lonely given that no one would speak to her as she is not the daughter of a noble. She has a special set of skills in that she can kill with just a touch of her hands. As such every week, she is taklen from her castle and taken to the prison to kill persons accused of treason. She thinbks no pone could ever love a girl that could kill with a touch, even if her fiance the prince is immune to the touch, being of royal blood. But a new guard with deadly sword skills and a beguiling smile arrives and starts romancing Twylla. It is treasonopus romance that could spell doom for both of them but the royal family could be less concerned given their plan to destroy their enemies. However the plan calls for a huge sacrifice that leaves Twylla in a dilemma: should she abandon her duty for the sake of love or do what it takes to protect her