House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I'm a sucker for fairy tale retellings so despite not being familiar with The Twelve Dancing Princesses I was excited to read this. I went ahead and read the synopsis on Wikipedia so I at least knew a little about it.

I don't know why but fantasies have a high dnf rate from me, unless they're fairy tale retellings, of which I will happily ride all they way to the end. Not being familiar with the OG tale put the book in the former camp and my attention did drift some and I put off reading. However, whenever I picked it back up I was sucked right back in. The world building was top notch.

It was part murder mystery and part romance and part something else, with some parts shining brighter in some places. The murder mystery was on-the-edge-of-your-seat compelling and the romance was nice and sweet, the other part was sort of blah.




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