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Sing Me to Sleep

Gabi Burton

3.93 AVERAGE

snoww666's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

keshyb97's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious slow-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

smiley7245's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The twists. The turns. The angst. I was hooked.

Saoirse is a siren and she doesn't want to kill people, but she has to. She wants to be good, she wants to be the kind of person her sister would be proud of. But she has to kill people. She is training to be in the military (sort of) and at night she works for the Raze as an assassin. On the final day of military school she comes in first and gets offered a job protecting the crown prince. She turns down the job, until she finds a note in her sisters bag, blackmailing them both. So, she goes back to her commander and asks if she can have the job, and the prince is there and he says yes. And he is hot and he is in to her. Even without her siren magic. So, she has to guard him, protect herself from him, occasionally do assassin work, and deal with the blackmailer. Well, one of her assassinations turns out to be the princes' best friend, only she doesn't find that out until later. In fact, during the planning of his birthday is when she realizes that all of her assassinations have been related to him and his party. Then, she gets sent out and attacked and discovers that she hasn't actually been working for who she thinks she has; she's being used by the Resistance. Then, the rehearsal for his party happens and he gets pulled overboard. But, he's a water fae so it should be fine, only it's not and she has to go in the water and save him; but as a siren when she's in the water she wants to kill so that's bad. But she saves him and thinks that nobody sees her until she gets back on the beach and starts doing CPR. He gives her a promotion and says she's the only person from his guard that's allowed to be alone in a room with him because she's the only one he trusts. Meanwhile, they are looking for her, with her siren face, for questioning about his besties death. Day of the party shows up and her magic wears off of her siren face comes out and he tries to have her arrested. Only one of her guards that she's been working with tries to help her. Two guards try to kill his parents. She gives him a note, which he takes and he disappears in the madness. Turns out, it was the witch on his guard the entire time; she's working with the Resistance. She has kidnapped her sister and says kill the prince by midnight or sister dies. She finds the prince and tells him everything. The one guard that helped, keeps helping; turns out she wasn't bad, just in love with a half-human. They go to her house, travel by magic to Saoirse's witch aunts' and make a plan. Then, the biggest betrayal of them all. The leader of the Resistance, the one who was sending her out to do the assassinations, the one who kidnapped her sister: it's her best friend. She "kills" the prince, but he throws her sister into the sea, after making her throw the prince into the sea as well. But, sister had secretly untied her ropes so she helped rescue the prince and together they saved him. Then, she used her siren powers to call the citizens to try to stop the Resistance, and they stall them. One of the princes guards is fighting the King, he dies, but the Queen lives. The Hayes becomes king and says that everyone involved will be dealt with. Then, he secretly tells Saoirse that apparently there is a way out, and he wants her to go outside the barrier and meet with a specific enforcer and report back.

I cannot wait to read the next book! This sets it up so well. I am obsessed!