That being said, I did enjoy this book! House of Salt and Sorrows is a lovely retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, set against a gloomy backdrop by the sea. However, it wasn’t as intense as some people made it out to be.

I was hesitant to start it, though, because I heard that it was scary, and I am a total weenie when it comes to horror/suspense. I was incredibly excited to be approved for an ARC of House of Salt and Sorrows because I’d heard such great things. Had we somehow angered the gods? Had a darkness branded itself on our family, taking us out one by one? Or was it simply a series of terrible and unlucky coincidences?. 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. Because who-or what-are they really dancing with? 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. 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.ĭisturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls’ lives have been cut short. Summary: In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.Īnnaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Book: House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A.

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