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A review by lyakimov
House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
3.0
From the top reviews on this book, I was expecting it to be super scary. A lot of reviewers said it would give people nightmares. It was slightly creepy but not nightmare-inducing. The story was very interesting and the book was written extremely well. Unfortunately, as always, the romance ruins it.
The romance felt so unnecessary to the plot and took away from a lot of the important things going on in the story. It is always fine to add in a romance but it needs to be balanced with the plot and cannot take away from it. The relationship just felt random and forced, and they spent way too little time together to ever be in love. I wish that the book focused less on the romance and more on the actual story because it was interesting, it just was slow-paced and then felt rushed at the end because it had to compound all the details required for the climax of the book to make sense. I am still kind of interested in this series, so maybe I will give the second book a chance.
The romance felt so unnecessary to the plot and took away from a lot of the important things going on in the story. It is always fine to add in a romance but it needs to be balanced with the plot and cannot take away from it. The relationship just felt random and forced, and they spent way too little time together to ever be in love. I wish that the book focused less on the romance and more on the actual story because it was interesting, it just was slow-paced and then felt rushed at the end because it had to compound all the details required for the climax of the book to make sense. I am still kind of interested in this series, so maybe I will give the second book a chance.