“Legislation on the books.” Get it? Like that’s what you say about passing legislation successfully, but also it would be legislation on books? God I’m funny.īut let’s talk synopsis. It seems like they should be good and yet they aren’t and that is an injustice so massive I will dedicate the rest of my life to getting legislation on the books that will prevent it from ever happening again. Tell me that doesn’t seem like the rest of the hundreds of pages that follow it should be good!! Tell me! You’d be wrong. But like, come on: “I have a heart for every year I’ve been alive.” This law is for the good of the people, you know? Because then I open them in Barnes & Noble and am like “wow I should buy this” and then I do (except not immediately because I don’t have B&N levels of money honey) and then I’m disappointed and I hate it and it’s honestly bad for all of us. Agent: Emmanuelle Morgen, Stonesong.I am proposing a new law: Books that are not good should not be allowed to have really good opening lines. With well-crafted fight scenes and vivid descriptions, Christo has created a world of beauty and monstrosity that will draw readers in. To redeem herself, she must return with Elian's heart, so she joins him on a quest to find the Eye of Keto, a magic-granting crystal that could help Lira win back her mother's favorâor free the sirens of her tyrannical rule. But everything she has worked for is wrenched away from her by her vindictive and power-hungry mother, who transforms Lira into a human after Lira allows a prince, the siren-killer Elian, to escape. As a siren princess, 17-year-old Lira knows that every prince she kills is a means to an end: namely, proving to her people that she's strong and cruel enough to become queen one day. ![]() MaIn a dark debut novel inspired by The Little Mermaid, a human prince and a siren transformed into a human embark on a perilous journey filled with blood, gore, and treachery as they struggle with a sense of duty and thirst for freedom. An additional purchase.- Karen Alexander, Lake Fenton High School, Linden, MIĬopyright 2018 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. VERDICT Those looking for nuanced characters caught up in a tough situation will enjoy this one, providing they can look past the confusing shifts in perspective. Fantasy fans will like the idea of sirens and piratelike princes as the characters who are imaginative and well developed however, the romance does clutter up the plot. At times, this might be confusing to readers, who have to consider who is speaking in the first paragraph of each chapter. While a romance buds, can this pair learn to trust one another? This narrative is told with alternating points of view in the first person. The Prince is one with the sea as well as charming and conniving. After being turned into a human, she is rescued from drowning by Prince Elian, her prey. Her quest is to claim the heart of the heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world, Prince Elian, or Lira will remain human forever. Lira was raised to abhor humans and finds it to be a cruel punishment from her mother, the Sea Queen, when she is turned into one. ![]() She is ruthless in her approach-stealing the hearts with her bare hands. Having claimed 17, she is in search of another. Gr 8 Up-Princess Lira is a siren and collects the hearts of princes.
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