Po przeczytaniu drugiego tomu wiedziałam, że serii “Syrena” nie da się uratować. But the plot has about as much substance as a short story, stretched over three hundred sixty eight painful pages. Plus once again, Rayburn skips over the climax, going straight to the end where I'm told how Vanessa wins by way of like three or four sentences. Is there really anything new here? Or a point beyond the typical vague scheme for world domination? And I'm not sure what Colin's role in the whole thing is, it's not really explained that well. And the whole thing just feels like it's recycled from the first book. Oh, except the identity of the killer siren's oh so obvious.

Luckily - more like unluckily, at this point, I'm halfway through the book and finally get a whiff of the killer siren plot at last. I should've just read chapter thirteen, that would've been a good short story that could've saved me the trouble of reading the rest of this book, all I'd really need is a bit of imagination to fill in the blanks of what happens beforehand, there, done. It's more like ok, that's enough angst, let's move on to the happy ending, don't mind Simon's attitude towards sirens or Vanessa's self doubts, there's really no need for character development to get in the way. Then she tries to patch things up with Simon and the whole thing's so transparently devoid of development it wouldn't even have made a good novella. I'm surprised the pace of this book hasn't put me to sleep yet. I just kept waiting and waiting and waiting for something substantial to happen - anything.Īnd I guess eventually some things do happen, Vanessa gets weird vibes from new girl Natalie and more and more lethargic.

I felt somewhat of the same way in Siren because in every single one of these books Rayburn really stretches out the killer siren plot in favor of following Vanessa around as she does mundane everyday things, but at least there the death of Vanessa's sister Justine is a huge hint of something unnatural going on, but in this book there's really nothing - just Vanessa wallowing around town. At least she tries to, because even her pinning’s so dull I'm more bored than annoyed. Vanessa, well she broke up with Simon in Undercurrent in a really bizarre twist of events, and she spends the first half of this book annoying me with how angsty and needy she is. I mean, not much goes on for most of this book. In fact, it's probably one of the more pointless sequels I've ever read. Dark Water's not as bad as Undercurrent, ok few books are as bad as Undercurrent, but it is really really dull. There are times when the series completionist in me has to read a book even though nothing good can come of it.

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