I was completely captivated by Craig’s world. The pacing was excellently done so that the scares spread throughout were buffered by light-hearted scenes of dancing, trips to the market and conversations with sisters. There are sea monsters, ghosts, unexpected deaths…I’ll admit, I spent a few sleepless nights while I was in the middle of reading it! Yet, it completely held my attention and intrigue, considering it was a genre out of my comfort zone. It has a dark, paranormal-esque, almost ethereal twist to it. Craig is no typical fantasy retelling of The 12 Dancing Princesses. I’m going to be completely honest and say that I grew up reading fairy tale retellings, but House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A.

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. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother.

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