Sirens..

This book was not as enjoyable for me as the past books have been. I feel that this book brought me to darker places than the pasts even though horrible things were happening throughout all of them. But, I feel that the past books have been almost uplifting to hear people coping with horrible times of struggle and trail. This book, brought me down and was very depressing. The part that effected me the most was when he went back to Baghdad to seek revenge. once he got there he disowned his sister because she was not conforming to the ways of the small village they were from. That was a very important moment for me because it showed that she was getting what she wanted from life instead of staying almost suffocated in the village. Then it saddened me that he would disown her and say that she was nothing to him any longer. It was hard to comprehend. From that point it seemed to get even more depressing. Him living out on the streets, being robbed, having no food for weeks, it seemed that he was at an ultimate low and I wasn't able to relate because I knew that his ultimate goal was for revenge. I understand that it's about his family's honor and that was broken when they were attacked. It was just like he was a ticking time bomb going off full of rage and I couldn't relate much to him. The ending was however a total surprise the fact that he couldn't go through with an attack. That showed me as a reader he was more human than i thought throughout the book. Although an interesting read, it was not one of my favorites of the class.