Andrez's Reviews > Lost Voices

This was an extraordinarily written book. The writing was beautiful and lyrical sometimes and the mermaids' voices' descriptions were some of my favorite parts.

I like this kind of mermaids too, girls who suffered enough to put their humanity aside. It would also explain why they hate people enough to drown them.

Luce was a nice character, though she sounded a little too mature for her age, I guess that's because of what she went through and thus she had to grow up very quickly. Her almost permanent sadness in the beginning of the book is also probably because of that. That girl's had a rough life! I admired her though, because she never let that stop her from doing what she needed to too. But she sucked it up and did the best she could. I think that was very needed for her mermaid life then.

Once she became a mermaid, we get to know the other girls at the tribe, and in my opinion, the tribe was realistic- or as realistic as a mermaid tribe can be; I liked that there were good and bad people, and that none of them was just good or just bad, and that the tribe was not perfect. Catarina was a good leader despite her volatile temper, even though she kind of started to lose her mind in the middle/end of the book (I was really disappointed). I loved how someone's place in the tribe was decided by how well one could sing, and not by age/experience/etc..

Though in the beginning it takes a while to get into the action because basically we're just reading about how miserable her life is, the rest of the story is quite interesting and the plot's twists were good. The ending I hated, though. It was an absolutely cruel cliffhanger that begs for a sequel.