As a reader, you’re thrust into the mystery of Annaleigh’s sisters dying off, resulting the family being in an usually long morning period and the villagers believing Annaleigh’s family is cursed. The overall mystery was gripping as well. Craig created the eery drowned world that was like a love child of House Greyjoy and a twisted Lovecraftian world. This book was just dripping with atmosphere. To fully get into my thoughts, I will have to go into spoilers, but I’ll stick them in a spoiler corner. I’m not going to lie, review this book is so hard because I absolutely adored the atmosphere and lore woven into this world, but I was so disappointed in the ending.

This was pitched as atmospheric, creepy, and the new “it” YA book. This was a book that got so much hype and early buzz last fall and I was so excited to get to it. 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. In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.Īnnaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy, RetellingĪdd to Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | Book Depository Synopsis

Salt and sorrow