![]() ![]() My hair snakes down my back, as red as my left eye-and only my left, of course, because the right eye of every siren is the color of the sea they were born into. It’s because they think that if they eat enough of them, they might become human themselves. And when they steal the hearts we keep, it isn’t for power. Sometimes they save the lives of sailors and take nothing but charms in return. They steal trinkets and follow ships in hopes that treasure will fall from the decks. They have the capacity to be deadly, like all monsters, but where sirens seduce and kill, mermaids remain fascinated by humans. Fish and human both, with the beauty of neither. Their deep-blue flesh is dotted with fins that spread up their arms and spines. Unlike sirens, mermaids have stretched blue husks and limbs in place of hair, with a jawlessness that lets their mouths stretch to the size of small boats and swallow sharks whole. Mermaids more fish than flesh, with an upper body to match the decadent scales of their fins. These are the women who take the human bounty of their kin. Left to suffer until their blood becomes salt and they dissolve to sea foam. I’ve heard things: tales of lost hearts and harpooned women stapled to the ocean bed as punishment for their treachery. Hearts are power, and if there’s one thing my kind craves more than the ocean, it’s power. I count each of them, so I can be sure none were stolen in the night. Every so often, I claw through the shingle, just to check they’re still there. There are seventeen hidden in the sand of my bedroom. And as always, I want to thank you guys for taking the time to read my post, I truly appreciate it.I HAVE A HEART for every year I’ve been alive. I recommend this book for 14-year-olds and older. Read this book if you like Pirates of the Caribbean, The Beholder, Sea Witch, the Little Mermaid, and you get the idea. ![]() The relationship between the two main characters will leave you reeling because they both know what they should but it is hard for both of them to follow their orders when their hearts say something else. This is the type of book I’ve been waiting for, in terms of mermaids actions with pirates, and prince and princesses and all that jazz.Ĭharacter development and world-building were great too, the storyline was easy to follow and her writing felt consistent and it always went along with her time period. Elian is a great captain of his bot, I loved the crew and the way he commanded his ship. But other than that, feelings start developing later on and things get complicated. The princess knows who he is and she knows that she has to kill him, which to her credit, she does try multiple times. From then on out, you know how it goes, they both hate each other and the prince wants to kill Lira but he doesn’t know she’s the princess. That is where Prince Elian comes in, he is actually a mermaid and siren killer and hunter, and then when he is sailing on the sea to find the “ Prince Killer” he sees Lira’s human body in the ocean. It’s kind of like a Little Mermaid retelling but a little bit more badass if you will. ![]() Now, two weeks before her birthday she takes the heart of a prince that she wasn’t supposed to and her mom to punish her takes her “singing voice” away and gives her legs and tell her that if she wants to come back she needs to take a prince’s heart without her powers. You’ll have to read the book to know what I mean. Every year for her birthday she gets to kill a person and take their hearts for a complicated process that I’m not going to explain. In this book, we follow the story Lira who is a siren princess. I was not expecting it to be like it was, but it turned out to be better than expected. This book was a surprisingly good read, it had been on my TBR list for the longest time and I’ve finally got to it and I’m happy I did.
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