Sirena

Author: Donna Jo Napoli

My Description: Sirena has a very depressing beginning. Very awful. Then, it gets better. Then it's enjoyable. Then I really like it. The funny thing is that the story is written like Sirena (a mermaid) is telling it to us, yet she says it all in present tense... Like this: I shout out loud. Then it ends very sadly. It still was a good book.

Back-Of-The-Book Description: Sirena is cursed. She will not become immortal unless she is loved by a human man. The siren song she sings with her mermaid sisters makes men adore her--yet it leads them to their deaths. That is why she hides when she finds a young soldier abandoned on the isle of Lemnos. He wants to know her, though she should not let him near her, or allow him to hear her sing. But how can she fight a love she's been waiting for all her life--a love that will make her live forever.

Starting Date: Febuary 3rd

Ending Date: Febuary 4th

Reading Time: Two days

Pages: 210

Recomendations: To girls who like sad fantasy romances.

Writing Rating: 9 (because it's such a wonderfully different way of writing... all in present tense)

Story Rating: 6

Overal Rating: 7 1/2--A.K.A. PRETTY GOOD

Book #3 of '08