I suppose you could classify this as a bit of a letdown after the last book. Not nearly as powerful or remotely probable but it is not that which led me to this book in the first place. What led me to it was an overabundance of knowledge about the Greek Myths. I studied those for several years and was positively obsessed with it.
The tale (pun absolutely intended) tells of Sirena, a siren of myth who with her sisters sings to sailors (ha alliteration), causing them to shipwreck and hopefully fall in love with the sirens. Only then will the sirens gain immortality. Sirena leaves the island and her sisters to Lemnos, where she meets an abandoned soldier, named Philoctetes. Who actually existed. She hides from him but falls for him.
Greek myths of the Gods and Goddesses are woven into this story. And frankly, there's not much depth to it, hence this short little blog about it. Yet, it is entertaining and I think adolescents would quite enjoy it, even if they aren't as nerdy as I am and don't know the Greek myths by heart.
This book gets a three out of five for being soundly entertaining but lacking in substance. Until next book dear readers.
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