The sirens start killing the people that work at the oil refinery because it will destroy their home, but Connie gets them to stop then is able to get the refinery to leave the Stacks(the sirens home)alone, and stop Kullvero, temporarly. Soon they relize that Kullvero and evil shapeshifter has persuded the sirens to help him in his quest to destroy humanity. A universial is compainon to all creatures were normal compaions only have one.
Connie the Society soon relizes is the Universial. Her aunt and many others including her friend Col are in some thing called the Society which people are told is an group for perserving the enviorment, but is actual the secrt society for compainions to mythical creatures. In the book a girl named connie comes to live with her aunt who is a little bit odd. Secret of the sirens is the first in the compainions quartet. This is a book where people stare out windows and wonder what the heck is going on. Generally written in an older style it's at a whopping AR 6.6 reading level (mid sixth-grade reading level) with 14.0 points.Īnd given that reading level and the fact that there is not a flow of constant action, that many readers are used to having, I'd say this book is going to appeal to younger readers who are patient and willing to let the story take it's time as it unfolds.
That said, I wouldn't give this book more than 4-Stars as I found it slow to start. But then again I've been reading for decades and decades, and to a more nascent reader this fantasy is going to be just right. I know that I could certainly foretell what was apt to happen in the next few chapters. It's simply not got a plot line nor characters that are going to engage our jaded 'been there, done that' tastes. By which I mean the SECRET OF THE SIRENS is a book I would NOT suggest for adults to pick up as a read for themselves. In the tradition of Eragon, A Wrinkle in Time, and The Golden Compass, the first book in the Companions Quartet is a boldly original adventure that will ignite the imaginations and emotions of fantasy readers everywhere.There are middle-grade books and there are middle-grade books. With Col’s help, she could achieve unimaginable power - and face the terrifying choices that come with it. Most of all, she doesn’t expect to learn that she has the rarest of talents, greater even than her secret ability to communicate with animals. When 11-year-old Connie is sent to live with her eccentric aunt by the sea, she’s not expecting anything great - not to make friends with Col, the coolest guy in town, and certainly not to discover that mythical creatures still exist, that an ancient society has protected them for centuries, and that a dark and treacherous force is lurking in their midst. The Sirens were now close enough for him to see their crimson mouths open in a scream, pale faces blazing with white-hot anger, their bird claws tearing at the air."
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