She loves Vanessa to bits and goes out her way to make sure her younger sister is looked after and safe. She's loud, pretty, funny, gregarious, always up for doing something silly and perhaps a little bit dangerous. Justine is the complete opposite to Vanessa. It makes her a slightly anxious person and she's forever looking for reassurance and gets it from her sister Justine. Unlike me she has a great many other fears too. Admittedly Vanessa is pretty much like me, actually - scared of heights and not very good at doing things impulsively. Her writing echoes her main character, Vanessa's, no-nonsense attitude. Rayburn's writing is clear, concise and without much frippery. I wondered if the writing would live up to the pretty cover and it does. So, here I am today to gush at you about Siren.
She needs a gold star for putting up with me. I emailed poor and waffled on at her about it for ages. And once I did, I couldn't not finish it. It took me far too long to pick up Sirens. Will she find the courage to face up to what she really is - before Simon becomes the next victim? And only she may have the power to stop this. But time is running out as more men disappear, their bodies washed ashore grinning from ear-to-ear.Īs Vanessa delves deeper into Winter Harbour’s murky past she discovers that nothing is what it seems. Looking for answers, Vanessa finds solace in Simon, Caleb’s handsome brother.
Until Justine is found dead near their holiday home and her boyfriend Caleb goes missing. in which all the victims are found grinning from ear to ear.Timid seventeen-year-old Vanessa Sands has always had her sister Justine to protect her. All of Winter Harbor is abuzz with anxiety when another body washes ashore, and panic sets in when the small town becomes home to a string of fatal, water-related accidents. Soon it´s not just Vanessa who is afraid. But when Vanessa learns that Caleb has been missing since Justine´s death, she and Caleb´s older brother, Simon, join forces to try to find him, and in the process, their childhood friendship blossoms into something more. After discovering that Justine never applied to colleges, and that she was secretly in a relationship with longtime family friend Caleb Carmichael, Vanessa returns to Winter Harbor to seek some answers. Vanessa´s parents want to work through the tragedy by returning to their everyday lives back in Boston, but Vanessa can´t help feeling that her sister´s death was more than an accident. That is until Justine goes cliff diving one night near the family´s vacation house in Winter Harbor, Maine, and her lifeless body washes up on shore the next day. Seventeen-year-old Vanessa Sands is afraid of everything - the dark, heights, the ocean - but her fearless older sister, Justine, has always been there to coach her through every challenge.
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