“Certain stories are recounted so many times that they become parched of meaning, stories like those concerning the girl and her wolf in the woods, the cinder-smudged princess, the monstrous beauty who vomits pearls with every sob.

Others, however, are kept from taverns and wine-warmed conversations, catalogued but rarely recited. Complicated stories with no easy ending, stories that remind us karmic debt is a contrivance of despair, that there is nothing fair or sweet about this world.” 

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Narrated by Susan Dalian

Everyone seems to forget.... Mermaids have teeth. 

A mermaid on the run, is partnered with a mysterious plague doctor with their own darkness. They then stumble on a village of children who are ages, and thirst for blood. With the three "Saints" who control them.

This book was one I was so excited for. It came highly recommended. I was also a little hesitant because I did not love Nothing But Blackened Teeth.

But this one is more up my alley, the writing is beautiful, the narrator did a fantastic job. 

MY ONLY COMPLAINT is it was too short.