Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
DID NOT FINISH AT 20 PERCENT.
This was put out there as a Gothic retelling of Salome (If you have read the King James Bible, Salome is Herodias’s daughter and she danced before Herod at his birthday celebration. He was so happy with her dancing he told her that she could ask for anything in return. She speaks to her mother and then asks for the head of John the Baptist.]
This book is instead about a woman named Courtney who is a journalist on her way to meet up with a friend. But when Courtney meets Salmone during a plane ride, she feels an instant connection and goes home with her. That right there should have made me put the book down. But I hoped it would get better, but it did not. I think I couldn’t get over two strangers meeting and one saying let’s go home and bad things not occurring. Also, Courtney sucks for ditching the friend she was on her way to see, to go and hang out with Salome. And I really didn’t get any sense why Courtney became obsessed with her. I don’t think the author did a good job of developing her and why she would do this.
The book starts off really slow and up until I quit it, didn’t seem inclined to pick up the pace. I just wasn’t enjoying it and DNFed it.
