A Fate Worse Than Drowning

Overall Rating: 5/5

One deal with the devil makes a fool.

Two... makes a villain.

Elle made a deal with the devil to save her sister.

A deal that she made to keep both of them safe. Now they live on a desolate slip of Halifax, where Elle now has the grim duty of drawing unsuspecting sailors to their doom, all in the name of the devil. But her sister doesn't need to know... right? She just needs to understand that they're safe....

But a pact with the devil is never so simple.

The devil returns, demanding more souls.

More sacrifice.

More shipwrecks.

More death.

Elle believes she knows what she must do in order to keep Liney, her sister, safe. More ships sacrificed in the devil's name... until a woman washes up on the shore of the grim coast that Elle and her sister call home.

Is she a soul to be sacrificed? Or is she something more? Part of a darker, more sinister pot brewing?

Or perhaps even something else? Now Elle is faced with the impossible choice of whether she kills the woman and risks breaking her sister's heart, or to break her deal with the devil ... and give up her soul instead.

Dark, twisty, and yet emotionally deep... A Fate Worse Than Drowning is a flawless combination of the historical, mixed with horror, a tinge of mystery, and just a dash of beautiful romance to finish things off. The lighthouse was such a beautiful way to blend that true element of horror into this novel, and I found myself falling more and more with not just the story, but the tale woven within, of the bond shared between sisters... and let's not even go into the ending... because that absolutely shattered me in the best of ways, and I cannot wait to find out what's happening next...