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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I've finished Siren Queen (4 out of 5 - she said in the acknowledgements that it was originally 3 novellas and maybe it should have stayed that way, but I loved the atmosphere).
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I just finished it and this is essentially my reaction with the same rating. The setting was inspired and inventive and I love that she didn’t clobber us with explanations; it was a fully realized world in which it was up to the reader to get up to speed. But ideally there would have been more of a plot arc. Two-thirds of the way through, not knowing about the novellas but obviously responding to the structure, I wondered when the story was going to go somewhere. It came across as a lot of setup without much of a payoff.