A Covenant of Salt - Martine Desjardins

Wow Chai, I read that book, and felt the same way!

So glad you enjoyed it, Chai and Chai2.

Well, perhaps you should enjoy it too!

I googled it and don't think it's to my taste. I don't like forlorn, barren kind of things, and from what I read, that's what it's like. Am I wrong?

Well, yes it is.

The purpose of all that really drives home the "moral of the story"

Honestly? I was enjoying the book because of how the author used the substance of salt to portray how dry, parched, sterile, cold the main character had become. Along with the idea she had some kind of covenant she had to see through to its end, making it her sole reason for living.

When I read the last couple of sentences of the book, my initital reaction was "um, what? that's how it ends?"

Then, later on, I realized it was the perfect ending.

The fact that I thought "um, what? that's how it ends?" proved just that.