Lost Voices by Sarah Porter

Have you heard of NetGalley? Basically you sign up and submit to receive galleys of books that are not published yet so that you can review them. It's really a neat service. I think it's geared mainly to book reviewers and bloggers. I've gotten a few books for my kindle. The first one that I am going to review is Lost Voices by Sarah Porter. It's about a 14 year old girl, Luce, who after the death of her father, is raised by her abusive uncle in Alaska. Things culminate with him to her own seeming demise, yet when she falls over a cliff that's not what happens. She is transformed into a mermaid, and rescued by tribe of other girls...girls like her who had a painful death at the hands of man. Remember the Greek myth of the Sirens? That is what these girls do...sing men to their deaths. But Luce still has the memory of the father that loved her. She struggles with her existence, her talent with the deadly song, and with the tribe that has found her. This is the first book in a trilogy. The thick of the book is good but the ending is very abrupt and many readers won't like that. But overall it will appeal to many readers who love fantasy books, and teen girls as well.