I just want to gush about this book and how much I loved it, and I undoubtedly will in this review, but I also want to be kind of constructive and cohesive and not just a mess of emotions. Like, if you’re talking to a friend about a book – that way. I think it’s because it’s all still so fresh and I legitimately just want to scream GO READ THE BOOK as well as just spoil the book to get my feelings out. Okay, little side note, I’ve legit been sitting here trying to write this review for about three hours and I’m struggling. It obviously doesn’t affect my rating and as for the plot as a whole, it doesn’t really affect how it all plays out in the end. I knew the moment I finished the book that it would be a five-star read and I would be pushing it on everyone, so here – read the book! I do have one tiny complaint and maybe I just missed it in the book, but I’ll get to that shortly. But what I didn’t expect was just how much I was going to love it and am kicking myself for not having read it sooner than right before its release. I absolutely loved this book – I expected to enjoy it as it’s a unique take on the 12 Dancing Princesses story – which is so underrepresented in YA it’s criminal. I was approved for this book back in February, with the plan on reading it a little closer to its release date…I’m cutting it a little close, as it’s out tomorrow (as I’m writing this) but it’s out today ( as you’re reading this) So HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY TO HOUSE OF SALT AND SORROWS! I also what to thank NetGalley for gifting me an early copy of this book, in exchange for an honest review. There will be spoilers in this review, but there will be a spoiler-free section first. 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.

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