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The Salt Grows Heavy
- Narrateur(s): Susan Dalian
- Durée: 2 h et 54 min
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Description
Long-listed, Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2023
Long-listed, Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year, 2023
From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairytale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself.
“Narrator Susan Dalian viscerally conveys the gruesome body horror while deftly capturing the lush imagery.”—Library Journal
“This brilliant novella is not to be missed.”—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
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 cruelest parts of their true nature if they hope to survive.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.
Ce que les critiques en disent
“Devastatingly effective…a folklore-infused world that feels wholly unique. Expertly blending a gothic atmosphere with elements of splatterpunk, this brilliant novella is not to be missed.”—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
“A feverishly gory, grotesquely beautiful and baroque fairy-tale-meets-love-sonnet. Cassandra Khaw’s imagination is limitless.”—Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts
“Cassandra Khaw’s writing is never more lyrical than when they’re describing the knife in your heart. The bones of a fairy tale sunk deep in a charnel house of descriptive prose, an elegant confection with a blood-soaked core. I devoured it in one sitting.”—T. Kingfisher, multi-award winning author of What Moves the Dead and Nettle & Bone
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- blorgus
- 2023-07-06
In the style of a parable
Maybe this book just wasn't for me. I get it's supposed to be a parable, and I think the characters really brought that aspect of the dark fairy tale to life, but I can't enjoy characters that only exist to nudge the plot along without motivation or direction. Their interactions with each other weren't all that interesting. I can't believe the mermaid would fall so hard so suddenly for the plague doctor.
What exactly the purpose of the story was is also lost on me. There are nods towards this idea of taking/giving, but because I didn't understand the characters motivations, what Khaw might have wanted to say on those themes doesn't resonate. I didn't appreciate the plague doctor explicitly stating this theme at Luke's resurrection, either. In terms of plot, things just seem to happen. The mermaid's tongue grows back. She just decides she loves the plague doctor. She decides to challenge the surgeons. I don't believe the plague doctor's beezor survived the inforno for a second.
A lot of where The Sale Grows Heavy wins points with me is in its language use. It's not perfect, but it beautifully paints this dark fairy tale world. It's clear and complex without being obscure, while also being surprisingly poetic. While I didn't fall in love with the characters, their voices were distinct, and that's always nice. There are a couple of instances where the prose rely on adjectives and adverbs to detrimental effect. The tone was also weirdly neutral and objective, which is strange for a first person narrator. While the writing is mostly excellent, there's a lot of places where you can find excellent writing these days. I thought the setting was neat, but the story, the main thing I'm reading for, didn't satisfy.
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