The Sirens by Emilia Hart is a beautifully atmospheric read, blending mythology with real-world mysteries that kept me hooked from the first page. The writing feels effortless and flows with a gentle rhythm, drawing you deeper into a coastal world full of secrets and unforgettable characters.

Hart weaves together folklore and modern life in a way that feels both haunting and completely grounded. Each character brings something unique, and the sirens themselves are portrayed with a fresh, complex depth that makes them feel genuinely real.

Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins for the chance to get lost in this captivating story—I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a touch of magic woven into the everyday.

I really loved this book! Beautiful prose, powerful themes, eerie atmosphere, and multi timeline POVs of strong women- all thoroughly soaked in sea water and feminine rage. If you love elements of lit fic, mystery, history and fantasy then this is the read for you!

Men have been going missing from a seaside town for generations - ever since a ship wreck on the coast that claimed the lives of women convicts being sent to Australia from Ireland. Lucy is haunted by vivid dreams about two sisters on a convict ship and the calling of the sea. After leaving uni due to waking up with her hands around her ex boyfriend’s throat (valid), she runs to her sister for help just to realise Jess is missing. Now it’s time for Lucy to unravel the the murky secrets of her family’s past and investigate the strange disappearances of men off the NSW coast, while battling a strange scaly skin condition that only seems to be getting worse.

Thank you to NetGalley, Harper Collins Australia and Emilia Hart for an advance digital copy of this beautiful book!

Sisters separated by hundreds of years. Voices you can’t drown out. Mesmerising and wistful this is a novel that will stay with you long after you turn the last page. All you can see is a world where men always seem to get their own way and something inside her wants to fight back. Set in a sea side town that is strange and full of rumours where a dozen men have disappeared without a trace and women’s voices murmur from the waves.

We follow along as the main character is pursued by nightmares that pursue her and visions of two sisters in a murky past. A timely novel that all woman need to read. It speaks to a hidden part of ourselves longing to break free. There is something equally beautiful and haunting about this story that will sweep you away beneath the waves.

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐬 (𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬) 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐄𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐭

I’m sure I will love this book, but unfortunately it wasn’t available in a format to send to kindle and I found it to difficult to read on the iPad. I will wait for its public release. Thank you for the early copy anyway! I loved Weyward, and Sirens has a compelling premise and a great opening.

This was an interesting book, an imaginative story of sisters, set in two different timelines. It includes elements of fantasy, which was unexpected.
I did, on occasion, find it a little confusing in its treatment of the sisters, and their uniqueness, and wasn’t immediately clear on what was happening with them. There were several twists to the story a more of their lives was revealed, which kept my interest.
This book is worth reading for its unusual storyline.

This was an intriguing read. Set in two time frames, it follows the journeys of two sets of sisters. For Lucy in the present day, the actions of her boyfriend and subsequent humiliation leads her to seek out her sister. Then there is the unfolding of Jess's story. The two Irish sisters and the mythology of the sea works well, set against the brutality of the convict ship. What emerges is a powerful story of female courage and sisterhood in the face of male mistreatment. There were powerful themes in this book and it was a world that I thoroughly enjoyed visiting. Thanks to NetGalley for an opportunity to read and review this book.

I can deeply appreciate the authors descriptive language in this book. Emilia Hart can truly paint a picture. However I can also admit this is unfortunately not my kind of book.
The author presents a somewhat brutal introduction that just felt very out of place. This scene is featured in the very short prologue as a “hook” but rather this had me reeling back in horror. Overall this introduction didn’t feel well thought out and I think the author should have expanded on this more at the start for better context and intrigue to pull her audience in. After this it just felt like the author was throwing constant shock value at her audience. You barely had time to get over the first hurdle and you have more thrown at you. If the author was aiming for fast paced I’d have to say this only felt overwhelming.

With thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the opportunity to read this eARC, as soon as I saw it, I had hoped that I would be allowed to read it, and I am eternally grateful.

The Sirens, second novel to Australian Author Emilia Hart, not only backs up what Weyward did, but commits to it ten-fold. A little bit of magic interlaced with the strength of women in the face of abuse and male power.

We start with Lucy, youngest sister and budding journalism student who wakes up to find herself choking a boy she had recently been intimate and cyber bullied by. Not able to find assistance from the uni’s welfare officer, she turns to her sister, Jess, running away to the house she had just brought in Comber bay. When she arrives, she finds her sister gone and starts to connect with the locals to try and figure out where she gone – a hard mystery to crack when she hasn’t seen her sister and spoken to her little, in the last year. A distance has formed between them and Lucy isn’t sure why.

In the midst of this mystery, we are transported back in time twice, through her sister's high school journal where Lucy finds out more and more about her sister's life before she was born, and also through the dreams that both sisters have experienced of the 1800’s upon a convict ship, heading from Ireland to Australia.

The Sirens is a story of discovery, family, love, bonds and feminine power. It is laced with secrets, songs and history, woven together with the story of the two girls Jess and Lucy, and twin sisters Eliza and Mary and their connection to and their fear of water.

It is richly written, an immersive read that you will find you have no sooner started it, that you have quickly finished it.