Overview
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A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward
2019: Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover’s throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister’s house on the Australian coast, hoping she can help explain the strangely vivid nightmare that preceded the attack—but Jess is nowhere to be found.
As Lucy awaits her return, the rumors surrounding Jess’s strange small town start to emerge. Numerous men have gone missing at sea, spread over decades. A tiny baby was found hidden in a cave. And sailors tell of hearing women’s voices on the waves. Desperate for answers, Lucy finds and begins to read her sister’s adolescent diary.
1999: Jess is a lonely sixteen-year-old in a rural town in the middle of the continent. Diagnosed with a rare allergy to water, she has always felt different, until her young, charming art teacher takes an interest in her drawings, seeing a power and maturity in them—and in her—that no one else has.
1800: Twin sisters Mary and Eliza have been torn from their loving father in Ireland and forced onto a convict ship bound for Australia. For their entire lives, they’ve feared the ocean, as their mother tragically drowned when they were just girls. Yet as the boat bears them further and further from all they know, they begin to notice changes in their bodies that they can’t explain, and they feel the sea beginning to call to them…
A breathtaking tale of female resilience and the bonds of sisterhood across time and space, The Sirens captures the power of dreams, and the mystery and magic of the sea.
Review
Lucy has just had a terrible experience. She is awakened and she has her hands around her boyfriend’s neck. She has been dreaming. She knows she cannot stay at school, so she heads to her sister’s new house, The Cliff House. Her sister, Jess, is not there. And then strange things begin to happen and Lucy needs answers.
Of course, this tale starts with a female, convict ship in the 1800s headed to New South Wales. So, this hooked me right from the start. Then it rotates from present day to 1999 and back around to the 1800s. Trust this author to tie it all together, because she does and she does it in a grand fashion. Believe me, you will be questioning what actually just happened.
Now y’all…this is not really my genre. And it did not get weird until the end of the story when the strange twist occurred. It hinted at a few things but I was already invested. Did I like it…yep, yep I did!
Talk about a bit twisted but y’all, this novel is definitely worth your time!
Need a unique tale which will have you guessing and has a great twist at the end…THIS IS IT! Grab your copy today.
I received this novel from the publisher for a honest review.
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