The narratation was very good, and brought just the right voice to the main character. 'An eerie, lovely Twelve Dancing Princesses retelling full of ghosts and gods and a fascinating waterfront world and I'm reading it from behind my fingers.' (Melissa Albert, New York Times best-selling author of The Hazel Wood)Īn interesting retelling of the Dancing Princesses fairy tale, this book takes the basic premise and makes it new with a gothic, atmospheric and very creepy story. House of Salt and Sorrows is a spellbinding novel filled with magic and the rustle of gossamer skirts down long, dark hallways. 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?

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. 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 her sister's deaths were no accidents. Once there were 12, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. In a manor by the sea, 12 sisters are cursed.Īnnaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. As one by one her beautiful sisters mysteriously die on their isolated island estate, Annaleigh must unravel the curse that haunts her family. Get swept away by the New York Times best seller that's sold over 100,000 copies. 'Step inside a fairy tale.' (Stephanie Garber, number one New York Times best-selling author of Caraval )

Salt and sorrow