Sirena Review

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Sirena

By Donna Jo Napoli

Summary

In Donna Jo Napoli's beautiful prose, the tragic love story between a mermaid and a mortal comes to life for young readers. When Sirena meets Philoctetes, Hercules' friend, she falls in love. But the young warrior must return home to fight the Trojan War and leave his magical love behind.

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My Review

Sirena is a sweet enchanting read of a mortal mermaid that wants to become immortal, but to become immortal she must lure a sailor with her hypnotic alluring song and make him love her. Tragedy strikes her and her sisters when they attempt to lure 2 ships. The ships and many of the sailors meet their watery grave, with only 19 surviving and dying on the little island due to the lack of fresh water, they blame the mermaid vixens and kill one of the sisters. The pod attempts to lure a second ship and Sirena is distressed and doesn't want to kill anymore men for her to gain her immortality. She leaves her sisters and comes to the island Lemnos. A man Philoctetes is left for dead after he is cursed by Hera. Sirena feels sympathy for the man and is lonely for companionship, she vows she will save him and not sing to him. A great love develops between the two of them and Sirena learns what is means to truly love regardless of differences and the inevitability of his mortality and her immortality. This is not your Disney Little Mermaid story of a perfect Happy Ever After, nor the completely tragic original Hans Christian Anderson version, but a blend of both happiness and sadness (minus the getting legs part).

Recommendation

If you love reading all mermaid stories, you must read this book. This book is a re-read for me, I love all of Donna Jo Napoli's books. She is ingenious in creating a new different version of traditional fairy tales, but still keeping in the theme of old fairy tales for they aren't always perfect and can be kinda dark.

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A few other mermaid stories I have read are
The Goddess of the Sea by PC Cast
The Last Mermaid by Shana Abe
The classic Hans Christian Anderson tale is always a good one

I haven't read too many mermaid stories although there are a few others that I want to read.

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