House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin Craig

This is review 2 for today.  Please read review 1 for context first.

I actually started this in January and tried again in April.  I got a quarter of the way in before I gave up.  I just could not get into it.  I put it aside for my summer reading theme.

I got a little over halfway before I stopped.  I just do not understand what is happening, where, or why.  I get the premise: wealthy, somewhat royal widower (all daughters) remarries and new wife is preggo with a boy.  Resentment galore.  4 of the 12 girls have passed away, but the most recent has led at least two of the remaining sisters to question if it was murder. K.  But then add in strange deities (wondering if this is the start of something like an in-universe series), odd customs, sea worship, and a magic passageway to a fancy cotillion ball. Too weird for me to try to make sense.

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