I found the romance compelling - thank God the author forewent descriptive, gratuitous sex, though there is one episode that isn't described. Vanessa Sands is a very likable heroine, and her struggles and concerns wrapped me up quite successfully.
Good listen with a little bit of disappointment.Īfter having just listened to a real stinker of a book, this book, Siren, was a great relief in its compelling and emotional suspense. in which all the victims are found grinning from ear to ear.Īs Vanessa and Simon probe further into the connections between Justine's death and the sudden rash of creepy drownings, Vanessa uncovers a secret that threatens her new romance - and that will change her life forever. All of Winter Harbor is abuzz with anxiety when another body washes ashore, and panic sets in when the small town becomes home to a string of fatal, water-related accidents. Soon it's not just Vanessa who is afraid. After discovering that Justine never applied to colleges, and that she was secretly in a relationship with longtime family friend Caleb Carmichael, Vanessa returns to Winter Harbor to seek some answers.īut when Vanessa learns that Caleb has been missing since Justine's death, she and Caleb's older brother, Simon, join forces to try to find him, and in the process, their childhood friendship blossoms into something more. Vanessa's parents want to work through the tragedy by returning to their everyday lives back in Boston, but Vanessa can't help feeling that her sister's death was more than an accident.
That is, until Justine goes cliff diving one night near the family's vacation house in Winter Harbor, Maine, and her lifeless body washes up on shore the next day. Food, water, oxygen, sleep - all details.Seventeen-year-old Vanessa Sands is afraid of everything - the dark, heights, the ocean - but her fearless older sister, Justine, has always been there to coach her through every challenge. Your friends may think you're a little out there, but they know you wouldn't be for any other girl. Which, as you know, is about as major as you can get. Not only that, you tell your friends you love her. You talk about her all the time, you hang out with your friends less and less, you're blind to other girls, no matter how hot or into you they are - and some of them are extremely hot and into you - and eventually, you break and actually say you love her. And you make all sorts of plans - big plans, like, post-high school - when the rest of us can barely wrap our heads around the fact that we only two years left to get a clue.
You share them with whoever will listen - including your best friends, who of course respect you but, after a while, out of the kind of concern only real friends have, seriously question your sanity. You open your eyes in the morning and your first thought is her.
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