The Salt Grows Heavy

Promising premise but would've liked it if it was edited to be more concise. There was one passage when I actually thought, "Ok, we get it, it's a religious text" and I didn't need a whole paragraph about how it's a religious text instead of what the religious text actually was

Honestly can't understand what exactly happened at the climax, and there was some conflicting details in the world building. For some reason, the set up for the entire story is contained in a short post epilogue AND post acknowledgement short story that would've served everyone better if it had been up in the beginning.

The romance between the main characters also happened suddenly without any build, so I was left wondering why the language changed abruptly.

The more I mulled on it, the less I think I personally liked it, but the Plague Doctor and premise of a vengeful woman still had a lot of promise.