House Of Salt and Sorrows
How to even begin this blog? I haven't been reading many fantasy books lately, not really since I got through Sarah J. Maas, and while I have been reading more Chic Lit, adult fiction, lately, I was super excited with this months OwlCrate! I love fairy tales and re-tellings and this is a re-telling of The 12 Dancing Princesses. This book was so hard to put down, I flew through it and I cannot get it out of my head! I stayed up really late to finish this book because I had to see what was happening! Here is the Goodreads summary!
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.
Annaleigh is such a beautiful name and I really loved her character. What she went through was so dark and twisted sometime I thought I was going crazy!
The book is a beautiful tale, it is haunting and romantic, spooky and page turning. I gave the rating a 4 out of 5 stars and the reason I took away a star was that the ending felt some what too rushed and all of a sudden things were discovered. I had a bit of confusion and had to go back a couple of times to re-read so I could understand what was happening. Even though the ending wasn't perfect, the book was spell binding and I fell so in love with the book and world.
Erin is a hugely talented author and an amazing story teller. Her vivid sentences and passionate scenes (And I don't mean passionate like love scenes) just pull you into the story and of what is happening.
I loved the characters of all the sisters, I loved Cassius and even Fisher. Are there any Colleen Hoover fans out there? Because if so, did you think of CH every time you read the name Verity in this book?
This is a book I would love to be made into a movie. I would love to see the fairy shoes and the amazing ball gowns and the haunting manor by the sea. I feel this movie would be so dark and chilling which would be so fun to snuggle under a blanket to watch.
I highly recommend this book and just warn you that it is highly addictive and very hard to put down!
