If you love fairy tales, dark magic, and a touch of horror, I recommend picking up Erin Craig’s excellent debut.Īnnaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. I loved watching Annaleigh defend her family in the face of enchanting strangers and ghosts. It’s beautifully detailed, gorgeously written, and completely unpredictable, with a strong-willed female character at its heart. This book was a sheer pleasure to fall into. By turns spooky and romantic, the book follows Annaleigh to enchanted balls and beyond as she fights to protect her sisters-and brushes up against the cosmology of major and minor gods that populate the book and control her fate. Tragedy has claimed the lives of four of her twelve sisters, and it soon becomes clear that their deaths were not an accident. This is the story of Annaleigh Thaumas, who lives with her father, stepmother, and sisters in a beautiful but haunted island manor. “The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” the Brothers Grimm fairy tale that House of Salt and Sorrows riffs on, is my favorite fairy tale, and this book is a retelling par excellence: There’s devoted sisters, strong women, and lush descriptions of period fabrics and clothing (I'm a sucker for an iridescent ball gown). I'm convinced I was uniquely positioned to love this book-but I’m equally convinced that you'll love it too.
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