The second instalment from Daughter of the Pirate King. Source: Sequel to Daughter of the Pirate Kingįavourite Quote: “I’m here because when I tried to get in that rowboat with my brother, I realised that the last thing I wanted was to be away from you.” Note: This post contains affiliate links, which do not cost you anything to use, but which help support this blog.Genre: Historical Fiction/ Romance/ Fantasy/ YA Alosa keeps a supply of rum on the ship and rations it out to her crew. One character is an alcoholic and gives up drinking. Someone shoots prisoners trying to make another prisoner tell secrets in order to save others. There are also several scenes showing some pretty gruesome violence/torture. There are scenes in which sirens drag men under water with them and disappear into the ocean. Sirens desire to drag men under the water, rape them and murder them. Violent Content – Content warning for rape.

There are also some sexual comments about both women and men.Īlosa’s mother is a siren, and she herself possesses the ability to sing and command men to do as she wants them to. In one scene, it’s clear they intend to have sex. And I loved seeing both Riden and Alosa grow as characters and find their way through personal battles and issues to figure out what they wanted from each other. I appreciated that the sirens’ behavior is more strongly condemned in this book than in the first one. On the whole, though, I enjoyed the story.

For sure I read the first scene with her in it and was like, wait, that’s her mom? I guess maybe I just found it a little weird that she was also sort of scripted as the perfect, loving mother in some ways? I don’t know. (See content notes below.) So it wasn’t that she was pure. She definitely is not a morally pure character, as she’s a siren and behaves as sirens in this story universe do. I think I was expecting her to be… more something. The only thing that felt a little bit underwhelming for me had to do with Alosa’s mom. The story scratched all those itches for me, and for the most part, I felt like they all exceeded my expectations. And I was very eager for a confrontation between Alosa and her father, because that definitely needed to happen! I desperately wanted to know what would happen between her and Riden. I really wanted to know how things progressed with the quest to reach the island where Alosa’s mother, the Siren Queen was rumored to live. I finally read the first book in this series a few months ago, and I knew it couldn’t be long before I read the second (and final) one.

Daughter the siren queen