The Siren
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- Data prevista: 29/09/2026
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- 11,99 €
Descrição da editora
The new novel from acclaimed, three-time instant #1 New York Times–bestselling author Tomi Adeyemi blends shocking contemporary storytelling with a sinister dark academic flair to create a blockbuster about rage, longing, and a woman’s darkness that will leave readers breathless.
Nothing is more intoxicating than power. . .
When Emery steps foot onto Dartmouth’s campus, she knows what she has to do: keep her scholarship, take her meds, and pray no one ever finds out about the past she left behind.
But that all changes when Emery meets an intoxicating girl named Roux, her disarming stepbrother named Eli, and the mystical band of girls Roux calls “The Sirens.” Each Siren is as beautiful as the last, and their lives on campus are shrouded in extravagance and secret parties. Before the girls became Sirens, they were outcasts, yet under Roux, their wildest dreams come true. When Roux offers Emery the chance to join them, Emery will do whatever it takes to make it in.
Even if it costs Emery her life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Following the conclusion of her Legacy of Orïsha series, Adeyemi wades into contemporary realistic fantasy with this bracing university-set tale rife with controlled chaos, cruel ambition, and fierce female characters. After a mental health crisis rattles her sense of self, poet Emery Coleman, who is Black, reluctantly begins freshman year at Dartmouth College. She soon meets amateur videographer Eli Woulfe, whom Emery finds as irritating as he is attractive, and, shortly thereafter, the Sirens, a group of beautiful, aloof girls led by Eli's equally irresistible stepsister Roux. Despite Eli's warning that Emery should keep her distance from the Sirens, she is quickly drawn into Roux's orbit. Desperate to reinvent herself in the Sirens' image, Emery undertakes their risky initiation challenges. As she grapples with competing loyalties, though, she struggles to determine which decisions lead to the fresh start she seeks, and which choices threaten her community's fragile equilibrium. Underdeveloped romantic subplots and thin characterizations undercut the novel's interrogations of mental health stigma, class differences, and their impact on marginalized people, though Emery's friendship with a fellow Sirens pledge is a bright spot. It adds up to a page-turning if underwhelming outing. Ages 16–up.
