Craig somehow turned a children’s tale into a creepy and atmospheric fantasy. I decided to read it once I finished the book and after doing so, I’m even more in love with this story.

I went into this book knowing nothing more than what the synopsis told me and that it was based on the fairytale, “The Twelve Dancing Princesses.” It had been a hot minute since I read that fairytale as a small child so I remembered nothing about 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. I’m going to attempt to do that, without spoilers, after the synopsis. I absolutely adore this book and I don’t want to spoil it but I still want to give you all a good review. I’m currently struggling with this problem thanks to House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. It’s easy to give an in depth review when you have a lot of issues to talk about. Sometimes I find five star reads harder to review than books I didn’t enjoy as much.

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