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A review by meggie82461
The Siren by Tiffany Reisz
5.0
5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
And although I loved you, my beautiful girl, this is not a romance novel.
This is another widely-read book, one so popular that I’m not even going to begin to write a conventional review. When I was a teenager, my mother often told me “people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.” When it comes to love or sex, a lot of people don’t want to accept this. They want the fairy tale, the idea that love is unwavering and simple, and that sex can’t exist independent of love (I promise you, it can). Sometimes I wonder if the divorce rate is as high as it is simply because so many of us have unrealistic expectations. Well, as a formerly staunch fairy-tale advocate, I can tell you this: love is far too complex to ever fit in the confines of a fairy tale, and that’s because people are as well. The world consists of a small percentage of heroes and villains; everyone else falls in the vast in-between, where they float back and forth their entire lives. Love can cycle, it can change and evolve, and it can still be very real. You can feel it towards more than one person, sometimes for different reasons and sometimes the same ones. One person’s triumph can be another’s heartache. There are no purely happy endings, but don’t forget- there are still happy or at least content people everywhere. I like to think those are the people that understand all of this, that understand that realism isn’t pessimism- it’s actually the exact opposite.
”...although two people can love each other deeply, sometimes love alone doesn’t cut it. We can only sacrifice so much of ourselves in a relationship before there’s nothing left to love or be loved.”
Anywho, this was an epic story filled with love, sadness, loss, acceptance, and redemption. It doesn’t follow a script and now that I’m done with it, I still don’t know what or who I was supposed to be rooting for. It’s never easy when you know the best thing that can happen to a person is the very thing that will break their heart. Turns out that the people who enter your life for a reason or a season can have just as much of an effect as the lifetime ones. This story may be unorthodox, but it’s real. We can’t change who we are, or who we’re meant for, no matter how hard we try.
If she pretended it was only today and that there was no yesterday and no tomorrow, she could stay with him forever.
And although I loved you, my beautiful girl, this is not a romance novel.
This is another widely-read book, one so popular that I’m not even going to begin to write a conventional review. When I was a teenager, my mother often told me “people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.” When it comes to love or sex, a lot of people don’t want to accept this. They want the fairy tale, the idea that love is unwavering and simple, and that sex can’t exist independent of love (I promise you, it can). Sometimes I wonder if the divorce rate is as high as it is simply because so many of us have unrealistic expectations. Well, as a formerly staunch fairy-tale advocate, I can tell you this: love is far too complex to ever fit in the confines of a fairy tale, and that’s because people are as well. The world consists of a small percentage of heroes and villains; everyone else falls in the vast in-between, where they float back and forth their entire lives. Love can cycle, it can change and evolve, and it can still be very real. You can feel it towards more than one person, sometimes for different reasons and sometimes the same ones. One person’s triumph can be another’s heartache. There are no purely happy endings, but don’t forget- there are still happy or at least content people everywhere. I like to think those are the people that understand all of this, that understand that realism isn’t pessimism- it’s actually the exact opposite.
”...although two people can love each other deeply, sometimes love alone doesn’t cut it. We can only sacrifice so much of ourselves in a relationship before there’s nothing left to love or be loved.”
Anywho, this was an epic story filled with love, sadness, loss, acceptance, and redemption. It doesn’t follow a script and now that I’m done with it, I still don’t know what or who I was supposed to be rooting for. It’s never easy when you know the best thing that can happen to a person is the very thing that will break their heart. Turns out that the people who enter your life for a reason or a season can have just as much of an effect as the lifetime ones. This story may be unorthodox, but it’s real. We can’t change who we are, or who we’re meant for, no matter how hard we try.
If she pretended it was only today and that there was no yesterday and no tomorrow, she could stay with him forever.