My Never Ending List

This was an interesting novel, one that I couldn’t put down once I started it. I needed to know what happened in the end and what was that path that the characters walked on to get there? As the main character was fixated on one central aspect of the equation, I was looking for all the other key components to see how everything else fit together.

 

Elena has always known that she was a bit special. It began with her virgin birth and continued on when the sirens began talking to her when she was little. One day while working at Starbucks a girl is shot. Luckily Elena is on break and witnesses the shooting. A siren, the mermaid Starbuck logo, summons for Elena to heal the girl. Confused, Elena doesn’t know anything about healing and confronts the siren. The siren explains to Elena how to touch the girl. Apprehensively, Elena lays her hands on the dying girl and Elena feels something within her as the dying girl slowly begins to awaken. Elena speaks to the victim and she explains how the shooter has vanished. Elena has now created a new name for herself, one she cannot explain and one that she is not sure she wants. Each life that she saves, must come with a price and these prices are ones that she has no control over.

 

This novel fascinated me yet it also made me think about life and the options that we have. Elena had individuals approaching her constantly asking her to heal a sick loved one and Elena had to consider the price for that one life. It becomes overwhelming at times for her while the sirens are yelling at her to do her part for humanity. I thought the conversation that Freddie and Elena have over an individual’s existence speaks volumes. I felt sorry for Freddie but I am glad that Elena became a part of her life. Not a novel that everyone will enjoy but one that put a spark in me.