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The house of salt and sorrows7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() e book Addeddate 14:35:08 Identifier house-of-salt-and-sorrows-erin-a-craig Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s22wn5fvg92 Ocr tesseract 5.0. Pretty soon, the problem for the survivors is that no young man dares to dance with them at all. Topics Fantasy, Young adult Collection folkscanomyfiction folkscanomy additionalcollections. “Had a darkness branded itself on our family, taking us out one by one? Or was it simply a series of terrible and unlucky coincidences?” wonders Annaleigh, the next but one in line to inherit. ![]() They die in order of seniority, moreover. There are 12 sisters again, daughters of the Duke of the People of the Salt, but one after another, four of them die, from disease, accident, drowning and suicide. In “House of Salt and Sorrows,” Erin Craig fills out the fairy tale into a gothic maritime romance. Until the traditional brave little soldier, helped by the traditional poor old woman, breaks the enchantment and stays awake to solve the riddle. Where have the princesses been, and who has taken them? If anyone is set to watch over them-and many a king’s son tries to do so, on the promise of the usual reward-he falls asleep, and in the morning his head is struck off without mercy, and without concern from the (one has to say) rather callous princesses. One of the Grimms’ lesser-known tales is “The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces.” Twelve beautiful princesses, the daughters of a stern king, live in careful seclusion, but every morning their shoes look as if they’ve been danced in all night long. ![]() ![]() Photo: Universal Images Group via Getty Images ![]()
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