The story alone kept me reading, but it was the characters- mainly Wren- that I loved most! Her character development was amazing and realistic. I felt like I was changing with her. The story has just the right amount of action, inner struggle and growth, and romance.
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Enchanting tale! Great effort!
Meraki: A Syren Story, follows a young siren who has recently fled the miseries of her predestined life. She’s willing to take a risk and face the dangers of the open sea for a chance at freedom. It isn’t long though before she finds herself ”caught up” in an entirely new set of struggles. Naomi Kelly writes beautifully! The story is packed with action, mythical beasts, and strong characters. Wren and Kellan, the main characters, are both powerful, driven, and determined, helping to keep the plot interesting and moving forward. There‘s a nice romance in the book though it isn’t the central focus of the entire story. The book is on the shorter side, so even though the relationships develop naturally, it does seem to happen a little quicker than it would in a longer book or series. Naomi has a bright future ahead of her, and I look forward to reading what she puts out next
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Meraki: A Syren Story, follows a young siren who has recently fled the miseries of her predestined life. She’s willing to take a risk and face the dangers of the open sea for a chance at freedom. It isn’t long though before she finds herself ”caught up” in an entirely new set of struggles.
Naomi Kelly writes beautifully! The story is packed with action, mythical beasts, and strong characters. Wren and Kellan, the main characters, are both powerful, driven, and determined, helping to keep the plot interesting and moving forward. There‘s a nice romance in the book though it isn’t the central focus of the entire story. The book is on the shorter side, so even though the relationships develop naturally, it does seem to happen a little quicker than it would in a longer book or series. Naomi has a bright future ahead of her, and I look forward to reading what she puts out next
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- Amazon CustomerReviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2022
Uniquely inspired by Greek myths with stellar world-building and lore
🌊 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 🌊 𝑴𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒌𝒊 𝒃𝒚 @naomikellywriting (𝑺𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒆!)Amazon CustomerUniquely inspired by Greek myths with stellar world-building and lore
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2022
Wren thinks she has just swum away from the greatest threat in the sea. That is until she's hauled onto the boat of a warmongering, temperamental king who means to use her Syren powers for his own purposes.
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✨ É𝕝𝕒 𝕤𝕖 𝕞é𝕟𝕒 ✨ 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆 ✨
Some analysis before I start gushing...
You may remember my reviews of other YA fantasy like Shadow and Bone, and how irritating I felt the tropes were. Naive, powerless young girl relies on others until she can suddenly do it all on her own.
Not Wren.
From the first line, she's fighting for survival, for freedom and to discover more about who and what she is. In dangerous situations, her powers are not overplayed as Kelly has well thought out limitations within her world-building, but they are always used in compliment to the other character's skills. Action scenes become exciting, a great mix of magic and hand to hand.
It's inspired by Greek myth, but Kelly has gone further to create her own magic system, with every detail fully realised. The unique interpretations of oaths, Meraki, luring, telepathy, and ichor were my favourite part of this book.
Kelly also creates some beautiful love matches here, and I won't say much more so as not to spoil it. This includes a happy gay couple, both of whom are instrumental to the plot, and are just the sweetest 💞
The masterful crafting of lore is second only to Kelly's character development. Kellan is particular is well-written, playing with and subverting the warlord and tyrannous king tropes to great effect.
My only critique would be that there was one emotional moment in the finale that felt pushed aside, but it didn't impact my enjoyment.
Now the gushing. This book is fun from the first page. It got me out of a reading slump and reminded me of all the things I love about fantasy. I'm not a big fan of romance, esp enemies to lovers, and yet I was rooting for the characters.
I had such a good time being fully immersed in this world, and all I can say is - fantasy readers, why haven't you read this yet?
Overall, 5 out of 5 stars
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