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augmentedaugust's review
4.0
I feel like you can't review each book individually as it is really one continuous story, so I will review them all in one.
Ksenia Anske writes with her guts and her heart. The way she describes emotions is both poetic and stunningly accurate. She manages to convey how messy and confusing they are; how we can simultaneously experience profound loathing and profound love.
The characters are real. They have dimension. There is so much buried in this book it was delightful to construct in my head ideas of what Ksenia could have been trying to say, and revelling in my power as a reader to create my own reality.
The metaphor of sirens and siren hunters, the issues of gender so transparent in their roles in the book... It made my belly feel wriggly with intrigue and intelligence.
It was just so face slappingly great to see fiction that still has a fairly low blender level, but still creates a beautifully rich alternate world.
Death. Family. Men. Women. Abuse. Love. So much going on in three excellent books.
The ending was, admittedly, contrived, but was entirely and completely appropriate.
Highly recommend this series.
Ksenia Anske writes with her guts and her heart. The way she describes emotions is both poetic and stunningly accurate. She manages to convey how messy and confusing they are; how we can simultaneously experience profound loathing and profound love.
The characters are real. They have dimension. There is so much buried in this book it was delightful to construct in my head ideas of what Ksenia could have been trying to say, and revelling in my power as a reader to create my own reality.
The metaphor of sirens and siren hunters, the issues of gender so transparent in their roles in the book... It made my belly feel wriggly with intrigue and intelligence.
It was just so face slappingly great to see fiction that still has a fairly low blender level, but still creates a beautifully rich alternate world.
Death. Family. Men. Women. Abuse. Love. So much going on in three excellent books.
The ending was, admittedly, contrived, but was entirely and completely appropriate.
Highly recommend this series.
love_aud's review
5.0
I loved this last book in the series. It was beautiful and I absolutely love that she learned from a dream. We could all learn from a dream. This whole series was so beautifully written.
veeforverytired's review
2.0
So, I'm a little disappointed in this read. It was very hard for me to get through. I stuck it out because I love Ksenias writing. The ending felt like it took too long to get to, and once I did, I was a bit disappointed. The ending felt very early 2000's Disney channel, which may have come from a personal place because of the sensitive subjects of the series.
I'm also a bit disappointed that an ableist slur was used in this book. I understand that teens aren't quite aware of conscious language, it just made me uncomfortable.
Overall, I still enjoy Ksenia's writing, she knows how to turn a phrase, that's for sure. I will continue to read her work, because I enjoy it. This series was obviously not for me, though.
I'm also a bit disappointed that an ableist slur was used in this book. I understand that teens aren't quite aware of conscious language, it just made me uncomfortable.
Overall, I still enjoy Ksenia's writing, she knows how to turn a phrase, that's for sure. I will continue to read her work, because I enjoy it. This series was obviously not for me, though.
tomasthanes's review
5.0
There are so many things to like about this third book, [b:The Afterlife|18361644|The Afterlife (Siren Suicides #3)|Ksenia Anske|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1377016065s/18361644.jpg|25962596], in the Siren Suicides trilogy.
More is revealed about how the characters are tied to each other through choices and actions in the past, tied not by love but by guilt, manipulation, and consequences.
More pleasant geography in/around the Seattle area (on the land and water): the Fremont Troll, Mount Rainier and the Cascades. The mention of Rainier was pleasant as it evoked memories of my uncle, one of the first Army Rangers in WWII who lived in Seattle and had climbed the mountain many times.
Interesting conveyances in this book: the trawler from the second book, a self-propelled life boat, and a funereal yacht.
There was so much energy (emotion) moving the story from page to page (and this is without the benefit of knowing that "every element must turn" (from the author's recent blog post).
Oh, and in good George R.R. Martin style,she began to kill off all of the main characters including Ailen's dad and Canosa until it's revealed that it's all a dream from a bad marijuana trip in the tub on the morning of Ailen's 16th birthday .
This book (Kindle edition) had more typos (5) than the previous books. I'll report these to the author.
#KeepWriting
More is revealed about how the characters are tied to each other through choices and actions in the past, tied not by love but by guilt, manipulation, and consequences.
More pleasant geography in/around the Seattle area (on the land and water): the Fremont Troll, Mount Rainier and the Cascades. The mention of Rainier was pleasant as it evoked memories of my uncle, one of the first Army Rangers in WWII who lived in Seattle and had climbed the mountain many times.
Interesting conveyances in this book: the trawler from the second book, a self-propelled life boat, and a funereal yacht.
There was so much energy (emotion) moving the story from page to page (and this is without the benefit of knowing that "every element must turn" (from the author's recent blog post).
Oh, and in good George R.R. Martin style,
This book (Kindle edition) had more typos (5) than the previous books. I'll report these to the author.
#KeepWriting
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