Review: Lost Voices
Title: Lost Voices
Series: Lost Voices # 1
Genre: Young Adult- Supernatural/Fantasy
Author: Sarah Porter
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Book: ARC sent by publisher
“Fourteen-year-old Luce has had a tough life, but she reaches the depths of despair when she is assaulted and left on the cliffs outside of a grim, gray Alaskan fishing village. She expects to die when she tumbles into the icy waves below, but instead undergoes an astonishing transformation and becomes a mermaid. A tribe of mermaids finds Luce and welcomes her in—all of them, like her, lost girls who surrendered their humanity in the darkest moments of their lives. Luce is thrilled with her new life until she discovers the catch: the mermaids feel an uncontrollable desire to drown seafarers, using their enchanted voices to lure ships into the rocks. Luce possesses an extraordinary singing talent, which makes her important to the tribe—she may even have a shot at becoming their queen. However her struggle to retain her humanity puts her at odds with her new friends. Will Luce be pressured into committing mass murder?”
The characters in this book I really like. They were all the same as in the burden that they carried as a a human. I really like the old tale of how they become mermaids. It gave a an interesting twist on the story all together. Luce has been through so much. I adored her stealth and wittiness. She was different but didn’t flaunt it. She just wanted to live a happy normal life for once. One thing that really grabbed me about her was her ways of finding out things. Even when she was sneaking around looking for answers, she never gave to much of herself away. She was always once step ahead of everyone.
One thing that really grabbed me about this book was that there was no love interest. These girls or rather mermaids, their tale of surviving and what they went through was enough to hold the reader. They had to come to the conclusions if what they were doing was right. Do they seek forgiveness and let it go or do they allow humans to pay for the past things that was done to them? What these mermaids come to find is that there anger has caused more pain then what they know.
I give it 4 BITES!
Happy Reading!
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I really enjoyed this novel and cannot wait for the sequel 🙂 🙂
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I am really excited to check this one out. I have not read any mermaid stories (that I can remember at least) and this one sounds really good! Thanks for the review!
I kind of like that there’s no love interest in this one and we get a story that focuses on something other than romance. As much as I love romance, it’s nice sometimes to read something without it. I’ve heard this one is really dark though, but that makes it all the more intriguing for me:)
This book is so strange! I enjoyed it but it was so so strange lol
Very different from any other book.
I loved this one too and I can hardly wait for the next in this trilogy! I agree with what you said and I also found it interesting there was no love interest… yet. 😉