House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
About The Book
Title: House of Salt and Sorrows
Author: Erin A. Craig
Genre: Young Adult Horror
Pages: 403
Rating: ★★★
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.
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My Review
I was loving this book in the beginning. I thought it was going to be a super creepy read and I was totally getting creeped out in the beginning. By the halfway point, the book sort of fell flat. I was hoping that this would be the first book to scare the crap out of me.
Unfortunately, it did not.
House of Salt and Sorrows follows a family that is filled with mostly girls. These girls are somehow dying one by one. No one knows why. The townspeople think the family is cursed. The girls don’t know what the answer is, they don’t think they’re cursed. They don’t know why they’re dying off either.
Annaleigh is our main character. She is one of the sisters who have not succumbed to this so-called “curse”. Annaleigh seems to be the only one that doesn’t think that their deaths are caused by a curse or that they were accidents. She decides to investigate further and finds that things are not what they seem.
I really wanted to love this book. I thought it started out so good! It just fell flat. I hated how it ended. The twist was awful. I wish it would have been a fun and spooky ghost story.
I did enjoy Erin’s writing and I’ll definitely pick up more of her books in the future. The writing was very gripping. Even though I wasn’t enjoying the story as much close to the end, I didn’t want to put it down!
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