It truly was a dark, gritty gothic island that was easy to picture. I loved the atmosphere and setting in this novel.These are talked about in detail and sometimes graphic, so if this is something you are not comfortable with please bare in mind before picking up this book. I want to say before getting into my thoughts that there are hard themes throughout the whole of this novel, including violence and suicide. She is one of twelve sisters that live at Highmoor, which is her family estate by the sea and definitely draws inspiration from Georgian period settings. The story begins at a funeral, throwing us straight into the disturbing events that have been surrounding our main protagonist and narrator Annaleigh. The ‘Twelve Dancing Princesses’ lore is woven beautifully into the plot and doesn’t feel garring at all to me and turns the story into a strong fantastical horror. Expect drama, mystery and plenty of horror in these pages that kept me wanting to turn the page to get more. House of Salt and Sorrows is a dark, gothic YA retelling of the ‘Twelve Dancing Princesses’ fairytale. ~ in a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed ~
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