Master of Salt & Bones
2020 • 550 pages
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Meet the Devil of Blackthorne Manor ...When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born.Funny how things changed over time. How the fairy tale twisted into something far more crooked, darker than I ever imagined.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.Lucian Blackthorne is as cursed as I am, and equally shunned by the locals, the fishers of men, who believe him to be the devil in the flesh.Perhaps he is, with the way his amber eyes draw me in, ignite me like an infernal blaze. And the sins he whispers in my ear are as wickedly intoxicating as the man himself.Yet, his touch is heaven and his will is my weakness.He calls us forbidden, an unsalvageable tragedy, with no happy end. Maybe we are. But in this story, he's the one who needs saving.Master of Salt & Bones is a dark modern gothic contemporary standalone romance.
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If you are looking for a gothic, dark romance with a dash of psychological thriller, look no further. This was a beautiful, dark read and I know my review will do it zero justice...but here I go anyways.
Trauma in any sense (sexual/physical/verbal etc.) stays with you forever. No matter how it is that you carry it, there it will always be. Sometimes it's tucked away sealed up in a box all the way in the back...And sometimes you can feel it all over your skin like bugs running up and down and all over. Now take two such broken people and put them together and you'll get one of two things....more destruction or salvation.
Isadora Quinn has heard all of the rumors about Lucian Blackthorne. The Mad Son. The Devil of Bonesalt. The Monster of Tempest Cove. She also doesn't believe any of them since she was raised in the same small fishing town and knows exactly how true the rumors about her are. So when a job opportunity shows up at his castle she takes it. She needs the money to get the hell away from the rumors, the trauma, the memories and just try and start somewhere new. She is about to get more then she ever imagined.
The story is told in dual POVs. I loved the pacing of the book which was pretty steady throughout (until maybe the last 20 percent where shit got wild for a hot second). There are triggers and this book is absolutely not for everyone. But I found it to be haunting, sad and beautiful. And now off I go to look up more of Keri Lake's books.
