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Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton

3 reviews

betweentheshelves's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I honestly have mixed feelings about this book. The world created, with the creatures and the way their society was set up, was really interesting and really detailed, actually. Burton did a good job setting that up and showing what was at stake from the beginning. 

However, I think this could have been a standalone book, rather than make it into a series. For me, I felt like the story could have been wrapped up at the end of this book. There's a cliffhanger, sort of, at the end of this one that didn't quite feel like it was necessary. 

I've read other books with Sirens before, and I also wasn't a huge fan of how they were portrayed in this book. It was like Saoirse was being made to be an anti-hero, but there wasn't enough balance there. There was just something off about it for me.

Overall, there was a lot of potential here, but the story just fell flat for me.
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takarakei's review against another edition

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adventurous dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I’m having a hard time deciding how I feel about this book. It was a little slow to start but the overall world building was interesting and well done. However, I can’t decide if the main character being morally gray because she is a siren is well developed enough for me to understand why beyond a surface level.
Basically it seemed to be to just be like “she’s a siren so she kills people” and that was it, but idk how I feel about that. 
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skylarkblue1's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Thank you to Gabi and Bloomsbury Publishing for a free e-ARC!

Certainly an interesting premise, with quite a creative execution! A strong tale of racism, romance and finding your true self.

Saoirse is not like most of the other people in the kingdom - she’s a Siren. Thought to be extinct and banned from the kingdom, she has to hide her true self using magic and determination. Only problem being, to get money she has to kill - but with each kill her risk of being found out increases each time.

I did quite enjoy this. The romance was a bit too much for me, I mostly started to just glaze over it but I wouldn’t put that as a negative since that’s just my preference. Straight romance, especially in YA, I tend to have this reaction to personally. The rest of the book though, loved it! I loved the world building, the characters, the magic and fantasy systems. All of it worked really well together imo.

Twist could be seen from a while away, which unfortunately did slightly detract from the ending as it seems like it was meant to be a big “oh wow what a surprise!” thing. But I wouldn’t say it was a bad twist though it just needed things prior in the book to help make it a bit less obvious. 
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