narrated by Emily Lawrence
Unabridged audio (12:50)
2019 Delacorte
416 pgs.
YA Fantasy
Finished 9/18/19
Goodreads rating: 4.00 - 9215 ratings
My rating: 4.5
First line/s: "Candlelight reflected off the silver anchor etched onto my sister's necklace."
My comments: A little slow-paced in that there was a lot of description in the world building (a fascinating world with its own sets of gods and goddesses, holidays, and traditions and in time spent between the twelve sisters). But it was well worth it, setting us up for a really powerful, mind-blowing climax, which takes place for at least the last quarter of the book. It's also deliciously creepy. I thing the thing that bothered me most was the Annaleigh was strong and smart, but screamed and whimpered and shrieked much more easily that I would have expected her to. And I have mixed feelings about the ending. It was read beautifully by Emily Lawrence, which added to its charm.
Goodreads synopsis: In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.
Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last—the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge—and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.
Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents. Her sisters have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who—or what—are they really dancing with?
When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family—before it claims her next.
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