There are middle-grade books and there are middle-grade books. By which I mean the SECRET OF THE SIRENS is a book I would NOT suggest for adults to pick up as a read for themselves. It's simply not got a plot line nor characters that are going to engage our jaded 'been there, done that' tastes.

I know that I could certainly foretell what was apt to happen in the next few chapters. But then again I've been reading for decades and decades, and to a more nascent reader this fantasy is going to be just right.

That said, I wouldn't give this book more than 4-Stars as I found it slow to start. Generally written in an older style it's at a whopping AR 6.6 reading level (mid sixth-grade reading level) with 14.0 points.

And given that reading level and the fact that there is not a flow of constant action, that many readers are used to having, I'd say this book is going to appeal to younger readers who are patient and willing to let the story take it's time as it unfolds. This is a book where people stare out windows and wonder what the heck is going on. ( )

The book had mythical creatures bonding with humans, which was cool. I selected this book because it had to do with mythical creatures and seemed like a good book.

This book, Secret of the Sirens, is about a girl named Connie Lionheart who lives in a town called Hescombe. Connie has this special ability to communicate with animals. Connie soon finds out that she is not the only one who has a special ability. There are a few others just like her. And that group of people is part of a society that protects mythical creatures from being discovered. The only thing is that there is a powerful, evil force that is gathering creatures so they can take over the world. So it is up to Connie and the society to help the creatures so they are not exposed.

This book has so much potential. It also has mythical creatures and I think that it would really catch the children’s attention. This book has a very nice story line. This book just has so much to offer. It is just an amazing book.

Secret of the sirens is the first in the compainions quartet. In the book a girl named connie comes to live with her aunt who is a little bit odd. Her aunt and many others including her friend Col are in some thing called the Society which people are told is an group for perserving the enviorment, but is actual the secrt society for compainions to mythical creatures. Connie the Society soon relizes is the Universial. A universial is compainon to all creatures were normal compaions only have one. Soon they relize that Kullvero and evil shapeshifter has persuded the sirens to help him in his quest to destroy humanity. The sirens start killing the people that work at the oil refinery because it will destroy their home, but Connie gets them to stop then is able to get the refinery to leave the Stacks(the sirens home)alone, and stop Kullvero, temporarly.
I loved this book. I was sad when it ended I wanted it to keep going good thing that there are three more books. This book was almost addicting it was hard to put down. I am so glad that I decided to read it or I would have missed out. I highly recomend it. everything is so wonderfuly written. It is one of the best books I have read in a long time.

With one blue eye and one green one, and a proclivity for collecting the affections and attentions of all sorts of animals, eleven-year-old Connie Lionheart has never fit in. Not in her family, not at school, not anywhere. Exiled to live on the British sea coast with her odd aunt after she's been kicked out of yet another school, Connie quickly discovers she's not the only strange one in the family. And the secret society that her aunt belongs to is up to something bizarre, too - otherwise, why would all the members need those funny ear protectors and go skulking in and out at odd hours? And something strange has been happening to men working on the new oil company machinery....

A mythology-related plot with an environmental message - the book starts off strongly enough, but falls a bit flat somewhere in the middle. Clever premise, though. Perhaps the sequels will be stronger.... ( )