The Salt Grows Heavy

Summery: A plunge doctor and a mermaid go on a journey together to escape there past. Along the way they come across a cult of children living in the woods.

This book is more about two main characters and prose then having a plot. Which I don't think is bad it was just that a lot of this book was extremally gory to the point that I became desensitized to all the violence. Though it did not make it easier to read.
The prose are the best part of this book especially for the parts of the mermaid talking about her former life. The relationship between the mermaid and the plunge doctor was the driver force and was want kept be from not DNF-ing it.

The gore was all lot and it just felt pointless. This is suppose to be a horror novel, but honestly there was really nothing that scary. There were a few thing that were eerily like the cult of children.
Overall I mainly read this book because of the mermaid and those parts I was satisfied with. The rest of the book felt like it was trying to scare you by being violent, which failed.