Lost Voices - The Lost Voices Trilogy, Book 1

Sarah Porter

Harcourt Children's Books

2011

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780547482507

What happens to the girls nobody sees—the girls slumped in the back of the classroom, hidden away in orphanages, held captive by abusive adults? The girls nobody hears when they cry for help?

Luce is one of those lost girls. After her father vanishes in a storm at sea, she is stuck in a grim, gray Alaskan fishing village with her alcoholic uncle. When her uncle crosses an unspeakable line, Luce reaches the depths of despair. Abandoned on the cliffs near her home, she expects to die when she tumbles to the icy, churning waves below. Instead, she undergoes an astonishing transformation and becomes a mermaid.

A tribe of mermaids finds Luce and welcomes her in—all of them, like her, lost girls who surrendered their humanity in the darkest moments of their lives. The mermaids are beautiful, free, and ageless, and Luce is thrilled with her new life until she discovers the catch: they feel an uncontrollable desire to drown seafarers, using their enchanted voices to lure ships into the rocks.

Luce's own talent at singing captures the attention of the tribe's queen, the fierce and elegant Catarina, and Luce soon finds herself pressured to join in committing mass murder. Luce's struggle to retain her inner humanity puts her at odds with her friends; even worse, Catarina seems to regard Luce as a potential rival. But the appearance of a devious new mermaid brings a real threat to Catarina's leadership and endangers the very existence of the tribe. Can Luce find the courage to challenge the newcomer, even at the risk of becoming rejected and alone once again?

Lost Voices is a captivating and wildly original tale about finding a voice, the healing power of friendship, and the strength it takes to forgive.

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Há um tempo eu vinha procurando um livro sobre sereias para ler. Amo fantasias e todo tipo de seres fantásticos, mas nunca havia lido sobre sereias. Encontrei alguns blogs que listavam fantasias dessa categoria, mas em sua maioria as sereias eram meninas bobas cujos objetivos nas histórias eram se apaixonar por algum garoto da escola. Eu queria personagens femininas que fizessem mais do que correr (ou nadar) atrás de garotos e estas sereias do Alasca realmente são diferentes.
Entretanto se você procura saber mais da mitologia original não encontrará aqui, essa saga tem mitologia própria. Ainda assim é um bom passatempo, divirta-se!