Lost Voices

Sarah Porter

Turtleback Books, 2012 - Juvenile Fiction - 309 pages

Fourteen-year-old Luce reaches the depths of despair when she is assaulted and left on
the cliffs outside of her grim, gray Alaskan fishing village. She expects to die when she
tumbles into the icy waves below, but instead 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. Luce is
thrilled with her new life until she discovers the catch: the mermaids feel an uncontrollable
desire to drown seafarers, using their enchanted voices to lure ships into the
rocks. Will Luce be pressured into committing mass murder?

What people are saying

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User Review  - 2wonderY - LibraryThing

I was so taken by an excerpt of Sarah Porter's upcoming book, that I had to sample her other writing. This first publication does not exhibit the lovely writing I saw. And neither the character nor the story grabbed me.

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User Review  - SparklePonies - LibraryThing

This is the third book in the series. I do not read a lot of fantasy books, but I enjoyed this one. The concept of the how mermaids come to be was interesting. I did not enjoy the ending

About the author

Sarah Porter is the author Lost Voices, Waking Storms, and The Twice Lost. She is also an artist and a freelance public school teacher. Sarah and her husband live in Brooklyn, New York. Visit Sarah s Watery Den online at www.sarahporterbooks.com.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Lost Voices; Volume 1 of The Lost Voices Trilogy Series
• Author: Sarah Porter
• Publisher: Turtleback Books, 2012
• ISBN: 0606247998, 9780606247993
• Length: 309 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic; Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Physical & Emotional Abuse