Reviews tagging 'Death'

House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

208 reviews

dadimabookernow's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Hands down the best read of the year!

This book is so so good. It's so dark and twisty but so good. Very much reminds me of The haunting of hill house vibes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Gore, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and Pregnancy

a_novel_craving's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Blood, Murder, and Pregnancy

jojo_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Confinement, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Fire/Fire injury

mikaelaandherbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Fantastic piece of work! This was a great, spooky retelling of the 12 dancing princesses. I loved that it has you guessing until the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Infidelity

ac02's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

anushar's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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

4.0

Overall this book was pretty fun, it was definitely creepy, and I liked the characters a lot. However the ending was pretty convoluted and didn’t really make much sense. you spend the whole book watching the main character use logic to try and make sense of the deaths, but at the end it’s just magic and random gods? idk I thought it felt like a cop out, but I still liked the book so 4/5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

mreno5's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Violence, and Pregnancy

applesaucemaybegood's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

that was definitely a book

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Death of parent

bookishjenn15's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

rachrreads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

House of Salt and Sorrows is a gothic retelling of the 12 Dancing Princesses with paranormal elements. Annaleigh is the 6th daughter of Duke  Thaumas, but now she’s second in line to inherit the title from their father. Tragedy has struck their family often— first their mother, dying after childbirth. Then followed by her four eldest sisters, all in varying circumstances. I was immediately hooked by this story, but I was left feeling like something was missing from the story.

The ending felt so out of pocket to the beginning of the story and I found myself trying to figure out what in the world was going on? The big plot twist, while hard to guess, was also at the same time predictable. I think this could’ve been resolved better or been more fleshed out. 

Cassius is a dream though. We stan him and Annaleigh 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Alcohol