NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Get swept away by this “haunting” (Bustle) novel about twelve beautiful sisters living on an isolated island estate who begin to mysteriously die one by one.
"Step inside a fairy tale." —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval
In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.
Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there 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 her sister's deaths were no accidents. The girls 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. House of Salt and Sorrows is a spellbinding novel filled with magic and the rustle of gossamer skirts down long, dark hallways. Be careful who you dance with...
And don't miss Erin A. Craig's newest novel, The Thirteenth Child, a haunting and romantic novel about the impossible choices we make in the name of love.
Star Rating: 4.5 Stars
Wow. I feel like this book was, was... so much more than I expected; I can’t even formulate the correct words to express how I feel yet. I’m not even sure I know, completely, how I feel, yet. haha. I just know that this was so incredibly gothically romantic, so haunting, so much MORE than I ever expected. I didn’t even realize that I was picking up a book that wasn’t just some simple retelling... but definitely YA horror/ gothic romance, and it was so... intense! In every single way.
It went so much deeper than I ever imagined. Fantastic.
What a truly spooky, fantastical, dark, whimsical, edge of your seat, up all night, swoon-worthy, lyrically told Fairy Tale. Lost for words atm.
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