A review by bluebeereads
Storm Siren by Mary Weber

1.0

Istyria book blog ~ B's world of enchanted books

1.5 stars

I won't lie. I'm a bit disappointed here. This is exactly the kind of book I normally love but I didn't. I ended up skimming through the second half so it'd be over sooner. Others may love this book, but in the end, I can't say I did.

Storm Siren lacks world-building in my eyes. There wasn't enough information on the world and what was really going on. I don't like a lot of big info-dumps, but I needed a few in this one. More details on the world, the powers, the kingdoms, the Elementals. Just everything. There are a couple of terms that are used often in this book and I don't understand what they were. A couple of character talked different but it's never explained why. That is so confusing and after a while, annoying.

I didn't really like any of the characters. Nymia is just annoying to me, though I do like her powers. If I had to pick one person I did like... It'd be Colin or Breck. But even with those I didn't know enough about them to connect with and relate to them. Thus the romance failed too. Partly because it's somewhat of a love triangle with a hint of insta-love. I don't know why authors keep working those two in their novels. I don't get it! They must know we hate it if they've spent a little time reading reviews.

In the end this book failed to impress me. There was a lot of potential here and I loved the general idea for the story but for me it wasn't executed well enough. It gets points for the excellent cover though.