Summary
“You must never do anything that might expose our secret.
This means that, in general, you cannot form close bonds with humans. You can
speak to us, and you can always commune with the Ocean, but you are,
essentially, a weapon. I won’t like to you, it can be a lonely existence, but
once you are done, you get to live. All you have to give, for now, is obedience
and time . . .”
The same speech has been given hundreds of times to hundreds
of beautiful girls who enter the sisterhood of sirens. Kahlen has lived by
these rules for years now, patiently waiting for the life she can call her own.
But when Akinli, a human, enters her world, she can’t bring herself to live by
the rules anymore. Suddenly the life she’s been waiting for doesn’t seem nearly
as important as the one she’s living now.
- Number of pages: 276
Review
The Siren was a
new kind of story, with some flair of the usual. I can’t say it was the average
story either because the plot line was very interesting to follow along. It’s
the story about Kahlen’s sentence as a siren. She takes you through each of the
biggest episodes in her 100 years as siren, and how, along the way, she
discovers a person who she is willing to risk anything and everything for.
Like I said, the story was interesting, but I couldn’t help
but get tired eyes as I read the book. It was long and it was monotonous at
times. It’s not that the story was boring, only that many parts were extended
and it made me tired to read it at times. It’s like she kept ranting in her
head or something.
Something that I found extremely
great was how the author gave life to the Ocean. She was real, and She felt
and loved and thought as well. I can’t really explain it, only that I felt
connected to the Ocean. I thought that was just amazing. So adding all the
qualities together, from 1-10? I’d say The
Siren gets a 6.
