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The Siren

  • 332 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2009
  • 15 editions

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1 About this book

"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 deadly to humans. You are, essentially, a weapon. A very beautiful weapon.

I won't lie 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.

Good for readers who want: a love story, fantasy, and mythology.

  • Romance
  • Fantasy
  • Mythology
  • Love
  • Forced labor
  • Young adult fiction
  • Fairy Tales & Folklore

2 About Kiera Cass

Born 1981

Kiera Cass (born May 19, 1981) is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known for The Selection series.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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