Groves Peak, Maine is home to a dark secret. The successful lobstering community is ready for summer, but a murder at sea changes everything. People are dying in the small coastal town, and the lobstermen are on edge.
Only one man knows the truth. His closet of skeletons is about to open, and no one is safe. Not even his daughter or her best friend. As a supernatural fury, homegrown dangers, and buried secrets coalesce into a series of real-life nightmares, friendships are tested, and heroes will fall. The Siren of Groves Peak reveals the true monsters in us all.
Dark bleatings, my soulful tribe! It was only when I started reading this novel that I realised that I’ve read hardly any mermaid or siren stories, and if this book is anything to go by, I should change that!
This is a tense, creepy story that feels quite like a folk horror story, but with an extra, unique caveat that I really enjoyed. We’re in a town that has a siren, and there’s an understanding amongst a lot of the townsfolk that certain things need to be done for the greater good. Some people are secretly fine with the bargain, others not so much, but people endure. What I really loved about this right out of the gate is that it’s just quietly acknowledged that this is a real thing and everyone knows about it. Well, almost everyone.
Kids and teenagers have heard the rumours but they assume it’s all fiction because the adults treat it as such, in the name of protecting the younger generations before they’re also roped into the town’s peculiar arrangement. What I expected, for reasons I won’t elaborate on here because of spoilers, was a story from one of the fishermen’s POV about some decision to break with tradition, but I was so happy to find that this wasn’t the case. What we actually get is a layered, more complicated story about widespread marital and moral strife, and we mostly focus on two teenagers that are unravelling the town’s secrets and finding out there’s a lot more to feel angry about than how things are set up.
I was really surprised that this story was told mostly through these younger characters, but in a good way, and I remember thinking that this was possibly the most interesting angle the author could take with this kind of tale.
Overall, I was really entertained and found this to be a very satisfying and enjoyable read. If you’d like to check out the book or the author, I’ve popped some links below for you:
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