It did not take me long to pick this book up after falling in love with The Sin Eater’s Daughter. I hadn’t read the blurb as I just knew I needed to read the next book so I was taken by surprise to discover that the protagonist was new to us and not Twylla as I had been expecting. This did however turn out to be a wonderful surprise!

The Sleeping Prince felt very different to The Sin Eater’s Daughter and not just because it had a different protagonist. I loved that there was so much focus on folklore and fairy tales in this story. I really loved how Salisbury took one of the fairy tales she created in The Sin Eater’s Daughter and made it come to life in The Sleeping Prince. I am a sucker for a fairy tale and I loved how that was so deeply embedded into this story. The original mythology and folklore that Salisbury has created for her trilogy is completely enchanting and I would love to read more of it.

The Sleeping Prince is very much Errin’s story and it is told mainly from her POV. I knew very little about Errin at the start of this book with the exception that she is Lief’s sister. Little did I know how quickly I would grow to adore her. Errin is such a fantastic protagonist and has quickly become one of my favourite characters in this trilogy. It is easy to like Errin: despite her difficult circumstances she is strong-willed, intelligent and loyal.

Living in poverty with only the company of her mother who has a mysterious illness, Errin is an apothecary and spends her days gathering resources and making potions and poisons to sell and pay the rent. When she discovers that her only friend, Silas, is concealing a big secret she is thrown head first into a world she didn’t know existed. I was SO intrigued by Silas; he is easily the most mysterious character in the book and I loved learning all about his background.

SO much happens in this book, it was much more of a page turner with regards to the amount of action that is in it. I loved seeing how this story eventually linked into The Sin Eater’s Daughter and every time there was a link revealed I couldn’t help but gasp or squeal. This book picked me up, swung me around, tipped me upside down and then put me back down on the floor. Every time I thought I knew what would happen again I was taken in a completely different direction and I loved it all. The epilogue is just WOW!! Melinda Salisbury certainly managed to weave the two books together in a fascinating manner.