Audio Book Review: The Siren

I am a FAN of The Selection Series and I love Kiera Kass for it. I had never read anything else by her and I had heard from a friend The Siren wasn't very good. I still took a chance when Audible offered two titles for one credit and downloaded it.

I loved the writing. It sounded a lot like The Selection, the female characters were great, the pacing and descriptions amazing. And yet . . .

Okay, look. . . this is a book about Sirens. In this book, Sirens are human girls "chosen" by the ocean to kill people—AKA sink ships. Because apparently, the ocean needs human bodies to survive or. . . something. 💁

The story starts after the ocean's Sirens sink the main character's ship (along with her family!) and it spares her because she says she doesn't want to die. Riiiight.

The girls need to "serve" the ocean for 100 years, during which they can't die or age and they can breath underwater and... oh, and their voices force humans to go drown themselves in the oceans.

After their service (cough, sentence, cough) they are released without any memory of ANYTHING and they are released into the world without ANY RELATION WHATSOEVER to any human being! 

There is a romantic element, but the thing that bothers me about the book is how the ocean is portrayed as a "good guy" overall but in reality she's a VILLAIN and she's cruel and a murderer and a kidnapper and she wants to force the girls to love her, and. . . I think you get my point.

So although beautifully written,  I had my reservations about that. I still give it five stars. But only because I couldn't stop listening and that engagement is, after all, what I value the most.

Cheers!

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