If I have any potent fears, chief among them is losing my mind and not being able to trust reality. Spoiler alert: When you bring the Harbinger of Madness and Nightmares into the fray, that sort of thing gets under skin. And yet, again, I find myself pleasantly admitting to being wrong: Craig’s book turned out to be quite the page-turner, and far more horrific than I expected. Only, I’m skeptical such a book will resonate me. Not that I’m against young adult books after, I absolutely adore Harry Potter and they remain the only books I’ve read more than twice. As with Anatomy: A Love Story, I was skeptical of Craig’s book. As I mentioned with my previous book review, Anatomy: A Love Story, I’m trying out a book club for the first time on Tuesday, and both of these books are the paired selection. I expected to walk into a fairy tale, and instead, walked into something fairly hellacious, courtesy of Erin Craig’s 2019 novel, House of Salt and Sorrows.
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