House Of Salt And Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt)

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What follows is a year of darkness, emotional strife and the hardships of winter combined with malevolence waiting in the darkness and violence. We learn how easy it is for neighbor to turn against neighbor. We see this all though the eyes of Elleria Downing, our heroine and half a set of twins.

Emily Lawrence was an excellent narrator, and she had her work cut out for her voicing the many Thaumas girls as well as a smattering of other characters. I think she did a great job of making the sisters feel distinct from each other - something which may not have come across quite as well in the print version. So, first...other things I didn't like (aside from the poor pacing). I had trouble engaging with the main protagonist, Annaleigh, she was just so serious and so good. In fact that's another issue I had with this book; it felt like it took itself way too seriously and was just way too dramatic. No humor or fun dialogue here.Despite dreams of adventures far beyond the Salann shores, seventeen-year-old Verity Thaumas has remained at her family’s estate, Highmoor, with her older sister Camille, while their sisters have scattered across Arcannia. In the town of Amity Falls, a family of beekeepers lives in relative harmony with their close-knit group of townspeople. Their town exists in the valley of a hard-to-travel mountain range, and monsters, perils, and death plague anyone who tries to get into Amity Falls....and out. Supply runs to the outside world are dangerous and infrequent. The people of Amity Falls are isolated. A modern masterpiece, this is a classic Gothic thriller-fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Erin A. Craig, about doomed love, menacing ambition, and the ghosts that haunt us forever. And she needs to keep an eye out on the handsome stranger who keeps refusing to say anything about himself, even his name. and even though the books are technically connected, it makes much more sense to me to call this a companion novel set in the same world rather than a true sequel, as they are quite separate stories. but the one thing that definitely ties the two together is the atmosphere.

Trigger Warnings TL;DR: infertility, erectile disfunction, open door sex dream, book of victorian pornography Overall, this novel is a masterpiece of gothic fiction that will leave readers captivated and enthralled. Erin A. Craig has proven once again that she is a master storyteller with an incredible ability to weave intricate and compelling narratives. This book ruined me for any other YA fantasy/sci-fi novels. Now, I compare each of them with this book, and I probably won't enjoy most of them. This book will make you want to drink a cup of tea with honey, eat honey cake (very specific but you will get it if you read it), and sit outside, surrounded by a very misty pine forest where you can hear the sound of the fox wailing. But after their parents are gone, her twin brother starts getting more suspicious, things get more dangerous around the woods. She starts seeing a woman in white dress, the very same ghostly figure Cyrus Danforth has seen before something real tragic happens to him!

When she meets a strange boy at the fringes of the woods, Ellerie has no idea that everything is about to change. I know, delicious, right!? Plus, Craig's writing continues to impress. It's lush, detailed and DARK. This entire story has such a vibe; the location, the atmosphere, it got into my bones. This is one of those books that you either barely describe or seriously over describe— it's rich, the plot is layered, and some of the magic in the story's structure comes from knowing the movements of the plot and yet being absolutely compelled to savor it anyway for the journey. A really masterful horror-speculative from an author to watch.