The Salt Grows Heavy

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Cassandra Khaw: The Salt Grows Heavy (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

128 pages

English language

Published Jan. 23, 2023 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:
978-1-250-83091-3
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5 stars (2 reviews)

After murdering her husband and burning his kingdom to cinders, a mermaid joins a strange doctor on a journey through the eerie taiga. Deep in the woods, the pair stumble upon a village, full of seemingly ageless children and the three surgeons who oversee them―called only “the saints.”

After discovering the villagers’ taste for a sinister blood sport, the mermaid and her companion must embrace the darkest parts of their true nature, if they hope to survive.

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The Salt Grows Heavy, by Cassandra Khaw

5 stars

In The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw creates a dark, hungry world. It’s the kind of world where the mermaids are abyssal creatures, far from the ones in our own fairy tales, and where magic always has a dark price. And yet, for all the horrific violence contained in these pages, I found a surprising amount of love and heart in this brief novella...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.