The Siren
Cass, K. (2016). The siren. New York, NY: Harper Teen.
Media Type: Audiobooks
Narrated by Arielle DeLisle
Length: 7 hours
Release Date: January 26, 2016
New York Best Seller List : #1 week of February 14, 2016
Summary:
As a young girl Kahlen is spared by the ocean when her ship goes down killing everyone on board. In return she must serve the ocean for 100 years as a siren. Being a siren consist of seducing humans with her song to feed the ocean. For 80 years Kahlen is obedient and loved deeply by the ocean. Until one day she meets a boy named Akinli and she falls madly in love. Realizing that she will never be allowed to love him she leaves him only to reunite with him months later. This time she makes the mistake of speaking to him and the ocean is outraged and almost kills him. In an effort to spare his life she pleads with the ocean to let him live. She allows him to live but punishes her to 50 more years of servitude added to her sentence. A few months later she begins to fall ill and finds out that he is dying of an unknown cause. After doing much research her sisters find out the problem and beg the ocean for compassion. At first the ocean refuses to let her go and save Akinli but in the end she transforms her back into a human. When she is reunited with him she has no memory of her past or who he is. All she remembers is his voice, and that is all she needs to know that everything will be alright.
Response:
This novel had a unique twist on a mythological story of sirens. The setting throughout the book perfectly blended the real world and fantasy together. While I wanted the end to include more details to see how everything was resolved, I enjoyed the development of the plot and it ended the way I expected it to.
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