“I raise my chin as the buyers stare. Yes. Look. You don’t want me. Because, eventually, accidentally, I will destroy you.”
In a world at war, a slave girl’s lethal curse could become one kingdom’s weapon of salvation. If the curse—and the girl—can be controlled.
As a slave in the war-weary kingdom of Faelen, seventeen-year-old Nym isn’t merely devoid of rights, her Elemental kind are only born male and always killed at birth — meaning, she shouldn’t even exist.
Standing on the auction block beneath smoke-drenched mountains, Nym faces her fifteenth sell. But when her hood is removed and her storm-summoning killing curse revealed, Nym is snatched up by a court advisor and given a choice: be trained as the weapon Faelen needs to win the war, or be killed.
Choosing the former, Nym is unleashed into a world of politics, bizarre parties, and rumors of an evil more sinister than she’s being prepared to fight . . . not to mention the handsome trainer whose dark secrets lie behind a mysterious ability to calm every lightning strike she summons.
But what if she doesn’t want to be the weapon they’ve all been waiting for?
Set in a beautifully eclectic world of suspicion, super abilities, and monsters, Storm Siren is a story of power. And whoever controls that power will win.
My Review
Author: Mary WeberPublisher: Thomas Nelson
Publication Date: August 19 2014
Pages: 320
Source: Library
Eh, it's not for me. I don't know what else I'm supposed to write in this review because the fact of the matter is that Storm Siren is simply a book that had an interesting premise, but the execution was not for me.
I didn't connect with the characters and the plot didn't stand out. Like, at all.
Nothing about the world intrigued me.
Sometimes, stories don't click. It happens.
So, um, as this is a quite terrible review thus far, I shall now entertain you with a drawing of a siren!
Ok, ok, so this is quite terrible as a drawing. I'm sorry.
Have you ever felt similarly about a book? Care to share?
lol that drawing!! Pretty epic! The blurb seems very interesting and a bit different from the usual fantasy. But yes! I've read books that just didn't get me into the story. Some books right from the beginning can be off for me just by the writing - either it drags or falls flat.
ReplyDeleteYeah. There's not much you can say when it just doesn't work. :p
Delete& believe it or not, I was trying to draw a scene from the book. I can't remember it too well now, but it happens!
-P.E.