The Siren (The Original Sinners #1) by Tiffany Reisz

“I'm no optimist. I'm just a realist who smiles too much.”

Everyone has books that when they’re struggling they can go back to and just opening the book feels like a hug from someone you love. This book series is that for me.

It’s incredible really, that I dive head-first into this series when I’m struggling with life since it always leaves me feeling raw and emotional after I read it — but perhaps that’s what I need at these moments. To feel, to be reminded that to feel is to live.

The Siren is without a doubt one of the best opening books in a series I have ever found. Rarely do characters live and breathe from the pages like these characters do from the very first page.

It’s a complicated story to try to summarise, it’s difficult to try and explain what this book is and do it justice. But all I can say is, even after so many rereads, even after so many years, these characters and this world still has the ability to leave me breathless and with tears flowing down my cheeks. The writing is exceptional and the characters have so much depth you’re left feeling like you actually know them.

You cheer for them, you cry with them, you laugh with them. you experience every emotion through them because they just seem so very real.

Tiffany weaves her magic with words and captures your attention, your mind, your imagination and your heart with such a vice-like grip it feels like you can’t survive without them at times. She will pull you into a place you probably didn't even know you wanted to be. But once you get there, you won't want to leave and quite simply, that’s what I want from a book. That’s what I need from a book.

Phenomenal.

Utter perfection.