House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
Release: August 6th 2019
Format: Kindle
Publisher: Delacorte
Source: Amazon
House of Salt and Sorrows Synopsis:
In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.
Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls’ lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last—the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge—and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.
Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents. Her sisters have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn’t sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who—or what—are they really dancing with?
When Annaleigh’s involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it’s a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family—before it claims her next.
Review:
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To be honest I was so conflicted when I was reading this book. On one hand, it is so good because it has all the elements that I love to read about in YA. It is a retelling of the Grimm’s fairy tale called “The Twelve Dancing Princesses”. It is also a Gothic murder mystery with a touch of romance, and had other elements like ghosts and gods. There are a lot of creepy elements, with some truly terrifying and gory parts. Moreover, there is also lot of twists and turns where you just don’t know what is going to happen next.
But that is exactly the same reason why I also could not enjoy this book at times. There is just too many things happening where the focus just shifts from one thing to the next, to a point where I really did not know what was happening. Overall, this book was interesting to read but it did not live to my expectations.
