![]() So Vanessa teams up with Simon to find Caleb, a hunt that proves stranger and more dangerous than either of them expected, changing their easy-going friendship into something deeper. Caleb was with Justine just before she died, and now he's disappeared. Vanessa's investigation starts with Simon and Caleb Carmichael, a fixture of the girls’ summers. So the question becomes, does Vanessa's struggle to understand her world in a different way ring true with the reader? The struggle is a perfect metaphor for coming of age, which is what makes it work so well (and why we see this device so often in YA novels). Here, the main character struggles throughout with a suspension of her own disbelief in order to find the truth. A realistic story with just a smidgen of fantasy, Siren plays with the suspension of disbelief every reader enters into when she reads a work of fiction. ![]() Siren, Tricia Rayburn's first young adult novel, is a tricky proposition. She knows something is off, even before she starts hearing her dead sister's voice inside her head. But Vanessa is determined to find out what really happened. Then Justine turns up dead, drowned in a freak weather event, in “currents so strong, Triton himself, the Greek god of the sea that could turn the waves up and down with one blow into his conch shell, wouldn't have been able to hold his own.” A terrible accident, everyone says. ![]() It's one of the qualities her sister Vanessa loves about her. Justine Sands is always ready for adventure-fearless, even. ![]()
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