Master of Salt & Bones

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Because we're the composers, the conductors of our own fate, and we write the notes to a beautiful, dark melody that no one else can hear." Master of Salt & Bones is a story of secrets and healing. It would appeal to readers who enjoy Dark Romance with elements of mystery. Told in dual POV and with a shifting present/past timeline, this story unfolds at a measured pace with various plot points intersecting until it all starts to unwind during the last quarter of the book. Together, Lucian and Isadora try to find a common ground, and find it physically, but ambiguity remains that can permanently wedge them apart. With mystery and speculation about the castle and family, it’s not long before Isa suspects things are not at all as they seem. I finished this book almost a week ago, and I've been constantly thinking about it ever since; if that's not the telltale sign of a personal 5 star read, then I don't know what is. Each time I bring myself to type of my feelings surrounding the gothic, yet contemporary atmosphere, the haunted, tragic characters, and the dark and disturbing plot of Master of Salt & Bones, I can't quite find the words to do it justice.

For a few months, desperate for an escape nineteen year old Isadora will be hired as a companion to Lucian's ailing mother. Being a daughter of a sinner and father unknown she's lived her life striving to escape the hold the island has on her. Maybe that’s the reason they call him the devil. Because the madness that breathes within these walls is as real as the man who feeds it.” The pacing flowed with the writing and it managed to maintain a balance that made the flow not too fast nor too slow. I do have one regret about Izzy’s character, and it’s that she didn’t have as much progression as I would have liked to see. Actually, she had a lot of growth overall. What I’m really trying to say is that she didn’t embrace part of herself as much as I hoped she would. Because if she had: dark phoenix rising. My god, did want. So maybe that says more about me than anything else, lol. Since childhood she's had an uncanny ability to play music by ear, even though she doesn't have the ability to actually read sheet music itself.There are a few trigger warnings in this book for: emotional and physical abuse, sexual assault, drugs, attempted/r*pe, a hint of pedophilia, self-harm, suicide.

His words dance around my head, the deep timbre of his voice titillating my senses. "I want to drown in you." Isadora Quinn is unique heroine, brave, straightforward, musical prodigy who is a daughter of junkie mother, abandoned to be raised by her auntie when she was only ten, shunned by the village people who are constantly gossiping and verbally abusing her about the traumatizing incident she’s been involved at a high school party.Other parts navigate through the secrets and tragedies that only touch the surface of the truth in it for if you dive too deep... you may find yourself in darkest depths with no way out. In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for me. He never was. Slowly building love interest. Attraction, yes, but their mutual romantic interest took time. They built a relationship, trust, loyalty. I am aware about. Makes the climax so much sweeter There was a romantic subplot in there but it was sooo under-developed that I just couldn't feel anything between the characters. ffs the first time they say they love each other is in the epilogue They had no reason for being together, besides the fact that they found the other attractive. I just felt annoyed while reading their scenes together, not that there were many of them.

I went in search of the villain, instead, and found him alone and in pain, living in a castle of bones.❞Isadora Quinn was a music virtuoso, raised by her aunt after having been abandoned by her drug-addicted mother - her father wasn't in the picture, and Isa didn't know who he was. There was a mystery surrounding her father's identity. While life was better with her aunt, it still wasn't great. The two barely scraped by most days. Isa may have been musically gifted, but she was too poor to leave the lazy seaside town in which she grew up to pursue a career in music. So when a job became available working at the town's only castle, Isa saw it as a way out, even though the town's rumors warned against it.