Like I said, I love sirens, and getting an explanation of their lives and powers, and why The Ocean picked certain women to be sirens was really cool. Making The Ocean a talking character that interacted with her daughters was a really nice touch.Ĭoming off of that, I really loved how the siren lore was used in this! Kiera Cass did her research, while still adding her own lore to it to make the narrative cohesive. Her story is way more interesting than Kahlen’s, and she kept the story going when at times it was hard to get through entire chapters of Kahlen moping, or being depressed. In this, The Ocean speaks to the sirens, and is their maternal figure for them. Interestingly enough, I thought the best character in the story, was The Ocean. Half of the book is her being depressed or pining or angsting over something and it’s just so irritating to read.

Everyone but her moved the plot forward, and although the overall themes of the story were good, Kahlen was infuriating to read about.

They establish early on that “her talent is obeying” but she kept on fighting against it and rebelling, but only halfway. She just kept on whining about everything!! I don’t mind a character complaining in a book, but the entire time she wasn’t even trying to change her situation and just was whining the entire time. The one character that started to bother me sadly, was the main POV character Kahlen. All of the Sirens had really distinct personalities and quirks, and it truly felt like we were looking in at pre-established relationships. I’ll start with the things I liked: I loved the core cast of characters. Going to be major spoilers in this post, you have been warned! So I’ll just touch on the things I liked, and didn’t liked, and then give my final thoughts. I’m not going to review this in my normal long form format with all the categories and stuff, because honestly the book was short like I said and really not much to fill in each section. It’s nothing ground breaking, but enjoyable enough and engaging enough to finish.

It’s definitely what I like to call, a popcorn read. Overall, it was a good enough read because of its length: the audio book was 7 hours, and I finished it in 2 days (could be one day if you felt like binging the book). If it wasn’t for the fact it had sirens in it, I probably would have stopped reading. What wound up bothering me however, was the drawn out premise, the directions this plot went, and how predictably cliché it wound up being. After reading the plot synopses, I knew it would be a generic romance, that part of it didn’t bother me. I picked up The Siren because I love mermaids, and Sirens. Sometimes you just pick up a book because it has a good concept, or has a mythology in it that you like.

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