The Storm Siren Trilogy

Storm Siren, Siren's Fury, Siren's Song

By: Mary Weber

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman, Christine Stevens

Length: 30 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

Mary Weber’s Storm Siren Trilogy now available in one collection!

Storm Siren

“I raise my chin as the buyers stare. Yes. Look. You don’t want me. Because, eventually, accidentally, I will destroy you.”

As a slave in the war-weary kingdom of Faelen, seventeen-year-old Nym isn’t merely devoid of rights, her Elemental kind are only born male and always killed at birth—meaning, she shouldn’t even exist.

Siren's Fury

“I thrust my hand toward the sky as my voice begs the Elemental inside me to waken and rise. But it’s no use. The curse I’ve spent my entire life abhorring—the thing I trained so hard to control—no longer exists.”

Nym risked her life to save Faelen, her homeland, from a losing war, only to discover that the shapeshifter Draewulf has stolen everything she holds dear. But when the repulsive monster robs Nym of her storm-summoning abilities as well, the beautiful Elemental realizes her war is only just beginning.

Siren's Song

Nym and Draewulf prepare to face off in a battle destined to destroy more lives than it saves.

With the loss of Tulla still fresh in mind, Rasha’s fate unknown, and Lord Myles taken over by the dark ability, Nym and the few Bron soldiers rush to warn Cashlin’s queen. Only to discover it may already be too late for the monarch and her eerie kingdom. As the Luminescents are sifting through Nym’s past memories and the queen is reading into her future, Nym is given a choice of how to defeat Draewulf, but the cost may be more than she can bear. And even then there are no guarantees.

©2016 Mary Weber (P)2022 Thomas Nelson

Finally!

I gave this a chance after loving books like the Queen of the Tearling trilogy and the Malediction trilogy. I love these 3 books! It was awesome to find a well written series with lots of adventure, magic, interesting characters, just the right amount of scene description, a sprinkling of humor and romance...WITHOUT gratuitous cussing or unnecessary, shoe-horned in sex scenes. Thank you so much, Ms Weber. I can't wait to read more of your work.

Why'd it have to end !

I love this series. So much going on in the story but written well to tie it in altogether. Some things that were so simple yet you don't realize until they discover it. Very epic story and world creation. I was so enthralled with it I almost started "swearing" out loud . I think "Litches" is one of my new favorite words.

Can't wait to read more from Mary Weber and to listen more from Sarah Zimmerman! She can definitely make it feel like you are right there in the story!

The destination is not worth the journey

The story concludes with a happy ending, but in my opinion, the destination is not worth the journey. I don’t know why I was so certain it would be, why I plowed through books I didn’t enjoy to get to some spectacular, unknown light on the other side… but in the end the light was faint, and really only visible because of the blanket of darkness around it.

I do not recommend this series.

> Book 1 is too steamy/lustful
> Book 2 is too dark and thoroughly depressing
> Book 3 is back to those uncomfortable, overly detailed, lustful emotions (worse than book 1 even). It also contains the taint of darkness from book 2, though not to the same extent

Many scenes throughout the series are confusing and poorly explained. It’s written in the 1st person and very much in her head. The language is overly poetic in describing emotions and surroundings, and often distracting from the flow and adding to the confusion.

The series was classified as Christian fiction, but I would in no way consider it such (mention of “the origin” does not make a book Christian).

I WILL say that the elemental abilities are quite cool, and book 1 fully captured my attention... but it went downhill so fast, I truly wish I had stopped after the first one.