Review: Storm Siren by Mary Weber



Description: “I raise my chin as the buyers stare. Yes. Look. You don’t want me. Because, eventually, accidentally, I will destroy you.”

In a world at war, a slave girl’s lethal curse could become one kingdom’s weapon of salvation. If the curse—and the girl—can be controlled.

As a slave in the war-weary kingdom of Faelen, seventeen-year-old Nym isn’t merely devoid of rights, her Elemental kind are only born male and always killed at birth — meaning, she shouldn’t even exist.

Standing on the auction block beneath smoke-drenched mountains, Nym faces her fifteenth sell. But when her hood is removed and her storm-summoning killing curse revealed, Nym is snatched up by a court advisor and given a choice: be trained as the weapon Faelen needs to win the war, or be killed.

Choosing the former, Nym is unleashed into a world of politics, bizarre parties, and rumors of an evil more sinister than she’s being prepared to fight . . . not to mention the handsome trainer whose dark secrets lie behind a mysterious ability to calm every lightning strike she summons.

But what if she doesn’t want to be the weapon they’ve all been waiting for?

Set in a beautifully eclectic world of suspicion, super abilities, and monsters, Storm Siren is a story of power. And whoever controls that power will win.

Review: Nym has been through a lot to say the least. Everywhere she goes disaster follows because especially when emotional she summons storms and lightning. Her white hair tells the story. All of the elementals like her are supposed to be male but it seems that is an old wives tale, She has accidentally killed her own folks and has become a slave.

When sought out by the government for training as a weapon she learns that she may not be the only one who could be considered weird. She also learns that there are other elementals and she trains with the only others that she has ever met. She discovers early on the sinister things that they fight can take other forms as well and makes other chilling discoveries which add to the fast pacing and quick plot development. The story moves you, has you on the edge of your seat and makes you care about the outcome.

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