Date Of Review: September 16, 2023
Review Left On GoodReads: Yes https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5830004048
The Salt Grows Heavy
Author: Casandra Khaw
Narrated By: Susan Dalian
Started: September 21, 2023
Finished: September 21, 2023
Genre: horror
Length: 2 hours 54 mins 37 secs
Part Of A Series: no
Type Of Book: audiobook
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61884779-the-salt-grows-heavy
Review:
This story was beautiful. I enjoyed that one of the main characters was a mermaid and that they weren't Disney-fied. There where a lot of words used that aren't normally used unless you read a lot, so I can see that being off-putting to a lot of folks. Otherwise the story was well told. I must say if I had read this book I would have given it 4 stars, but that Susan Dallian narrated this story made a difference.
I do wonder what it is to find someone to love like that. I both hate & love that this book made me cry, as I normally don't have the ability to cry over such things as love stories.
Goodreads Description:
You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes.
On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own. Deep in the eerie, snow-crusted forest, the pair stumble upon a village of ageless children who thirst for blood, and the three 'saints' who control them.
The mermaid and her doctor must embrace the cruellest parts of their true nature if they hope to survive.