egmosh 's review for:

Master of Salt & Bones by Keri Lake

3.0

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3.5 stars. I dig this author’s style and settings. Always someplace mysterious and moody, she has a good way of making the modern world feel questionable, like you’re not really sure what era you could be in. Similar to the last book I read by her (Nocticadia), this one also had a gothic castle, flashback chapters, and an older man and younger woman relationship. Unlike the other book though, a lot of the other elements of this story didn’t really work for me. I have nothing against age gaps, I myself am married to an older man, but I didn’t like it here. It felt off and they did not have much chemistry at all. He was obsessed with her (and not in a fun way) for having all these wild attributes which, sorry but are we talking about the same gal here? She was vanilla at best. And she was just dick-notized by him because let’s be real, she never had even decent sex before. She seemed too naive for the things he was into. So the whole romance side of this story was a far cry. The side plots of the story were a little all over the place at times. Bottom line is: errrry body is cray. The mom. The dad. The wife. The father in law. The doctor. The nurse. The butler? Probably. The aunt? Likely. But the mystery was good. Some twists I kind of figured out but a few I didn’t so that made it fun. It was a wild ride, I’ll say that much. I think I am ready to get lost in the realms of the Fae again though.