A review by mb_booklady
Storm Siren by Mary Weber
4.0
Set in a land of fantastical beasts, treachery, and magic, Nym must learn to control her curse.
Nym has the honor of being the cheapest slave ever sold. Her current owner can't wait to get rid of her because IT happened again.
Nym is an Elemental, a person who can control the elements based on her will. Without training, Nym is dangerous as she causes destruction and death when righteously angered. After her outburst, Nym feels deep guilt and remorse. She considers herself a freak anyway because all Elementals have been exterminated and Elementals are always male.
Her latest owner wants to train and use Nym as a weapon against the country determined to obliterate Faelyn.
As Nym trains, she makes friends, learns restraint, becomes aware that death is not the only option for the enemy, and maybe even falls a little bit in love.
Weber has done a great job of building a fantasy world. Readers will be able to see the feared bolcranes as Nym faces them down.
At first, I thought this story was going to be too much like Marie Lu's Young Elites trilogy with a heroine who is dark. There were also some similarities to Victoria Aveyard's The Red Queen trilogy. At heart, this story stands on its own merits as one of good's triumph over evil. . . at least until book two.
Nym has the honor of being the cheapest slave ever sold. Her current owner can't wait to get rid of her because IT happened again.
Nym is an Elemental, a person who can control the elements based on her will. Without training, Nym is dangerous as she causes destruction and death when righteously angered. After her outburst, Nym feels deep guilt and remorse. She considers herself a freak anyway because all Elementals have been exterminated and Elementals are always male.
Her latest owner wants to train and use Nym as a weapon against the country determined to obliterate Faelyn.
As Nym trains, she makes friends, learns restraint, becomes aware that death is not the only option for the enemy, and maybe even falls a little bit in love.
Weber has done a great job of building a fantasy world. Readers will be able to see the feared bolcranes as Nym faces them down.
At first, I thought this story was going to be too much like Marie Lu's Young Elites trilogy with a heroine who is dark. There were also some similarities to Victoria Aveyard's The Red Queen trilogy. At heart, this story stands on its own merits as one of good's triumph over evil. . . at least until book two.