This isn't one of those books you can be super critical of. It's very insta-lovey with less of a focused plot - a really tropey, white-and-heterosexual read with more of a fantasy element to the romance. But if you don't really care too much you can enjoy it. There was a fantastic plot at work in this book, all circling around Saoirse as a siren and her love for and need to protect her family. Who was Raze, the Resistance and the Spektral were all big questions in my mind and yet I didn't see that late plot twist coming...jaw drop.

scandal and flawed characters that you're fully invested in anyway and can't wait to see what happens to them. I literally could not stop reading. There's something completely addicting to this one, even more so than Katherine's last book, The Lion's Den, which was a five star read for me. This book catapults you forward with its often jaw dropping plot pivots. It's been two months since I read it and the story and the way it made me feel is still seared into my brain. Told from multiple POV's and multiple timelines we learn Stella (movie star), Taylor (Producer) and Felicity's (wronged woman) stories. They have all been f'd over by the men in their lives. Stella's ex husband Cole is the lead in the movie. There was a terrible break-up years ago that began Stella's downward spiral. Taylor previously worked for her father and he fired her amidst a major scandal. Something happened in Felicity's past that has made her keep men at a distance. They have all come together on this island to film a movie and everything from the past comes forward leading to many interesting confrontations.

Now let's talk about Kahlen... I kinda like her, but not so much. I'm in a point of my life were I can't stand characters whose only aspiration in life is to get married. I also feel that she was unfair with her sisters most of the time... and half of the book she was just bitter and depressed. Blah... You know, I love good melodrama, and boy, The Siren had it by the boatload. It was full of secrets and lies and scandals and romance galore, with lots of possible scenarios as people’s schemes and lies and treachery start to see the light of day. a b "Ms. 100 (2007.16), fol. 14. Sirens. about 1250–1260". Getty Museum . Retrieved 2022-09-10. . "serene" fol. 20v

Harrison, Jane Ellen (1922) (3rd ed.) Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion. London: C.J. Clay and Sons.

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My heart hurt for not only these two characters, but for the sisters of Kahlen. For how can such a lovely ending be so brutal and cruel to my heart? I know that I am going through some things in real life over here, but... IDK this book was a short one in what I am used to reading but I absolutely adored it. I cry all the time in books and movies and... ever so I can't say that it is unusual but it felt different. The author inserts some tabloid articles about the characters in between chapters which were fun and enhanced the story. As the reader you got to see what the general public thought of these characters but you also got to know them behind closed doors, so to speak. Like I mentioned before, I wouldn't say any of these characters are people you root for, but they each brought something to the table.

I wasn’t planning to read this because I was the only person on earth who didn’t love the author’s first book ( The Lion's Den), but FOMO on Bookstagram is a powerful thing!! I liked this better for sure. There certainly were lots of twists I saw coming (kudos for the one I didn’t), but it was definitely a fun, soapy ride. Charles Burney expounded c. 1789, in A General History of Music: "The name, according to Bochart, who derives it from the Phoenician, implies a songstress. Hence it is probable, that in ancient times there may have been excellent singers, but of corrupt morals, on the coast of Sicily, who by seducing voyagers, gave rise to this fable." [111]Sirens continued to be used as a symbol for the dangerous temptation embodied by women regularly throughout Christian art of the medieval era. There also appeared medieval works that conflated sirens with mermaids while citing Physiologus as their source. [102] [103] Ever since I was little, I have fallen in love with the ideas of mermaids (or sirens, as some have called them). They are beautiful and mythical and quite honestly the root of my obsession of fantasy novels and movies. Anyone who knows me knows that, even though I am a poor swinner, I can't get enough of the siren folklore.

I had high expectations for an incredible ending and I'm slightly disappointed it didn't reach that level. But that's okay because I still enjoyed this one and will be reading anything written by Katherine St. John in the future. Saoirse was also very manipulative. This was interesting because this ties in with siren folklore, manipulating men to their deaths. The problem I had with this was that pretty much her every action was to manipulate, and no one, not even loved ones were spared either. Even when she wasn't actively being a siren. I liked the idea of the system that the Sirens served, with the Ocean. It was really easy to understand, but it was a real central force in the book. I think I’d love to be a siren for the experience it gets. But the way it was painted in the plot was just unflattering, mostly because it goes against everything the main character truly wanted.Knight, Virginia (1995). The Renewal of Epic: Responses to Homer in the Argonautica of Apollonius. E. J. Brill. p.201. ISBN 9789004329775.