A review by skylarkblue1
Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton

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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