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The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

222 reviews

honeydewdaze's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Holy shit. goth as hell. 72000/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, and Murder

crow_bee's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Is the prose flowery and dense at times? Yes. The writing, however, is still well done. The Salt Grows Heavy consumed me during the 2.4 hours it took for me to read it. It’s short-it’s sweet (besides the gore and body horror lol) and I genuinely enjoyed the atmosphere and tone. This book was weakest in its final act but still left me satisfied overall.

I am going to recommend this to people if they are looking for a Halloween read- as it’s spooky and bloody but (personally) didn’t gross or freak me out like some other horror novels. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Cannibalism

paigehf's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gore, Torture, Blood, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Minor: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Religious bigotry, and Pregnancy

raybudbury's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.0

Not my ass being like “the gore was fun but the story was eh”. Makes me sound crazy but whatever, we love gore in this house. Story was hard to follow a bit + wasn’t grabbing me as much as I wanted it to. Actually probably would be better if it were longer 🫶

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Cannibalism, and Murder

cfell's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

cowboycarol342's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

absolutely heart wrenching. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Cannibalism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

lori85's review against another edition

dark

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

I love this book so freaking much I bought it in both the British and US hardcover editions because they have different artwork. I have never felt the need to own more than one copy of the same book in my entire life. I prefer library and ebooks! But I am seriously not kidding when I say it has been YEARS since I have read something that has sent my imagination spiraling off in so many directions. I've dreamed up sequels and backstories for everyone and pondered so many questions of identity, gender and sexuality, the nature of gods and monsters, and so much more. I've been begging, begging, begging my book club to choose The Salt Grows Heavy but instead we keep getting crap like Delilah Green Doesn't Care.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

matcha_cat's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Grief and Pregnancy

elliottcrow's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

carlita_tv's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail