“Kill. My instincts tug at my heart, my lips part, and a song pours out. Soft, soulful, wordless.”

As a Siren, Saoirse Sorkova, and creatures like her, are not welcome in the fae kingdom of Keirdre, but neither can they escape through the realm’s impassable Barrier. To survive they must guard their true natures, and hide in plain sight. Keirdre soldier by day, Raze assassin by night, Saoirse cares only for the wellbeing and safety of her younger sister and when Rain is threatened with exposure, she is determined to strike first.

Saoirse relies on bewitched Keil beads to disguise her appearance, but they do nothing to temper her nature. Siren’s are killers, their song deadly and Saoirse, the last of her kind, believes the urge is irresistible, especially when she is near water. Burton stresses Saoirse’s moral ambiguity, Saoirse is convinced she kills because of what she is, so she’s found what she believes is a justifiable outlet that also ensures her sister’s welfare. Despite her questionable decisions, I liked her character, she’s smart, brave, and kickass. There’s not a huge amount of character growth through the story, but I expect it will continue in subsequent books.

Offering a good balance of intrigue, suspense and action, I thought the plot was well paced. Saoirse’s hunt for the blackmailer leads her to the palace, where she takes a position as the personal bodyguard to the Crown Prince Hayes. Her search, and the blackmailer’s additional demands, has her creeping around the palace looking for answers, all while carefully guarding her own secrets. As if Saoirse’s life inside the palace isn’t difficult enough, it threatens to become untenable when the Prince tasks Saoirse to lead the investigation into the whereabouts of his missing best friend, whom Saoirse knows is dead, because she killed him.

Prince Hayes is yet another complication for Saoirse because while she despises the Royal family, he soon proves to be very different from his parents. I enjoyed the inevitability of their romance, but the Prince has to forgive Saoirse of an awful lot and I think he did so too easily.

Blending fantasy, mystery and romance, I found a lot to like in Sing Me To Sleep and I’d be interested in seeing how the series develops.

Thank you to NetGalley and publishers for this ebook of Sing Me To Sleep

I thoroughly enjoyed this read, I found it to be fast paced and I really enjoyed the magic of the story. It enthralled me with it's spellbounding ways and I was wrapped up in the story. I loved Saorise and her struggles with being a siren and I loved her character development.
This novel is written perfectly with its balance of lavish descriptions and it's magical enticement.

Sing Me to Sleep is downright compelling and spellbinding read. Definitely one of my top fantasy reads for the year. A vivid and intense fantasy that will have glued to each single page.
You will love Saorise and her story instantly.
I don't wanna give away to much but love black sirens/mermaids, magic systems, dark mystery, assassins and a touch of slow burn © then get your preorder ready for Sing Me to Sleep.

I really loved this book! It was fast paced and full of exciting magic and intriguing world building. I loved the characters, especially Saoirse. She struggles with her siren powers and her good morals, but will do whatever she must to keep her sister safe. Hayes was also a well written character who I really love. I can’t wait to see what happens next in this series!

loved how this debut fantasy makes you admire a morally grey siren for her desperation to keep a loved one safe while falling for a swoony prince she shouldn't protect in a prejudiced world she must be against.

This is an incredible example of immersive fantasy; I felt like I was alongside Saoirse throughout this book and was completely gripped throughout. Burton has a brilliant way of inviting you into this world, story and the character’s lives so that you simply can’t put the book down. I cannot wait for book 2!

(Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an eARC in exchange for an honest review)

One of my favourite parts of this book was the main character, I loved her. She was the perfect morally grey badass. Her siren powers were really cool and also used well in the book to help the plot. I also liked the world-building which had depth and was easy to understand. I did really like the plot but it was a little confusing in places. There was just a lot happening sometimes and it became a bit tricky to follow. That being said, I was never bored whilst reading it and the plot was full of things I love like lots of mystery, secrets and betrayals.

Thank you Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for this arc in exchange for an honest review.

"Sing Me to Sleep" by Gabi Burton follows Saoirse Sorkova, in Keirdre where species co-exist together who's a siren living a double life.

I would give "Sing Me to Sleep" by Gabi Burton a one- star review because, the premise is interesting but everything else fell short for me.

Crushed to have DNF'd this after the second chapter.

I was really looking forward to this book, and waited to read it until I had the Fairyloot version, thinking I'd treat myself to a day of reading a book about sirens, and the tagline 'The Cruel Prince meets To Kill a Kingdom' sounded right up my street, I thoroughly enjoyed both of those books! So why wasn't this for me?

It felt so forced, I couldn't stand to read it. It felt like a mashup of so many different things that had proven popularity among the YA fantasy readership, but without anything to hold onto. No heart or substance, just one trope, theme, or statement after another from things I'd read before:
* We have what seems to be Hunger Games being set up, with main motivation being protecting little sister character, Rain (introduced in a chapter called 'Rainfall' sigh), but no real background to that, just that the main character will do anything to protect her.
* An attempt at a morally grey main character "It's wrong and I know it's wrong...I'm as drawn to water as men are to me...[it] Urges me to act. Kill." So she's not morally grey, just seduced/addicted?
* Paid assassin
* Fae - because of course
* A sexy guard, Carrick, with 'cheekbones like glass' (is this a reference to another book with a sexy guard who name begins with a C?)

Also, the first demonstration of her amazing siren powers, her great assassin skills - she sings to a man so he follows her and finds her so beautiful he can't resist her, she has a craving to kill ('I want to take my time. Savor my kill') and can do it in all sorts of creative ways that would probably leave no trace, but instead, she poisons him?! and then leaves 'the fun part is over'. Why bother being all sireny at all, she could have poisoned him any time any place, and he would have followed her anywhere anyway, the whole rowdy pub leched after her because of her innate beauty anyway 'beauty is a given' she could have poisoned him in the middle of a crowded pub and it would have been much more subtle and much more assassiny than unnecessarily taking him aside to poison him where there are no other suspects and then leaving his body to be found. Maybe that gets addressed later, I don't know, but for the first display of both her siren and assassin skills, it seemed like a strange way to go.

I found myself wondering if it had been AI-written, and I'm really sorry to Gabi Burton for this review, but the beginning just left me cold and disappointed.

I've seen other rave reviews, so I really hope that one day I'll get to read this, and the rest of the book will blow my mind, and this review will be updated with my apologies, but I have so many books and so little time, I just couldn't justify finishing it, when nothing had grabbed my interest, but plenty had made me sigh and roll my eyes.

I wasn't expecting to enjoy this as much as I did! The worldbuilding was very intriguing and strong throughout, with a strong magical system as well, with a variety of creatures including sirens and fae. I really liked the main character Saoirse; she was the definition of morally grey and she was so much fun to read - I loved how she was incredibly loyal to those she loved, particularly her little sister Rain; their sibling dynamic was so lovely. The writing was easy to read and I enjoyed the various twists and turns the story took.

The downfall for me honestly was the romance. I didn't feel any chemistry between Saoirse and Hayes, and I didn't think the romance added anything to the story either. I wasn't rooting for them, Hayes had basically no brain cells - he didn't even know Saoirse and he trusted her above the guards that had been protecting him for years? Nothing about the story would have changed if Saoirse and Hayes had been friends instead of love interests.

It wasn't the perfect book, but I did enjoy it a lot and I'm looking forward to seeing where the story heads in the sequel.

Firstly I’d like tho thank Hodderscape for the proof, it’s beautiful 😘😘

I’m completely and entirely in love with this book and everyone should go and read it immediately!! Everything about it from the crazy sexy characters, the amazing world building and the utterly amazing magic system made me fall under Saoirse’s spell ❤️😍 I just couldn’t put it down!! I’m all in when it comes to the morally grey, fae, sirens, slow burn romances and super sexy princes. If you’re anything like me then this book is definitely for you too 😏❤️ 5✨ all day long!! (Did I mention how sexy Prince Hayes is already?!)

The plot sounds interesting but I guess this isn't for me.

The story was interesting in the start but it got boring when I was reading further.

This was a gorgeous read, sirens but make it dark, what's not to love?

I'm not surprised at all that book boxes picked this up, what a gorgeous YA story!

Sing Me to Sleep is perfect perfect perfect, no notes. Love Gabi and can't wait for Book 2 to come out!

This was such a fantastic, enjoyable read!

Siren fantasies are always some of my favourites but I sometimes feel like they’re difficult to get right? Gabi Burton really hit the spot though!

Saoirse was an incredible MC with a morally grey twist. Due to her nature killing is part of her, she doesn’t feel guilty, it’s a normal thing for her and she’ll continue to do it both to sate her needs and to protect her family. Seeing her come to terms with guilt for the first time was really interesting! I loved that she can taste peoples emotions too, that was a really fun twist!

When I read the blurb I thought it was the retelling of the Little Mermaid but i was wrong. It's an excellent dark fantasy featuring a strong MC and an intriguing world building.
My only issue was the pace that I found quite slow at the beginning.
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

Sirens, fae, witches, a morally gray heroine, and conspiracies. I loved Sing Me to Sleep!!!

Everyone knows that sirens were killed many years ago when a king created a barrier around his kingdom to protect it from its enemies. Now the fae have control, the witches have their magic, and the humans are servants. What they don’t know is that there is still a siren alive, hiding in plain sight, training to become a guard. Saoirse Sorkova is a siren with a thirst to kill. Beautiful and deadly, her song can persuade anyone, human or magic, to do her bidding. By night, she is a killer for hire, but she doesn’t know who pays her or who her victims are.

Graduating first in her class, Saoirse is chosen as a royal guard for the handsome, charming, and kind prince Hayes. She should refuse because the Palace is a dangerous place for her, but when someone threatens the person she loves most in the world, her sister Rain, and all clues lead to the Palace, she has no choice but to accept the job to find out who is after her family. Once inside the Palace, she discovers that her family may not be the only one in danger and there are much darker secrets to uncover.

Saoirse is a well-developed and fierce protagonist. All her life, she’s been hiding her true identity and her nature, trying to fight the call from the water to kill and destroy. Everything she does, the killing and accepting the job as a royal guard, is to protect her family, but, most of all, her younger sister Rain. She expected to hate prince Hayes, but she didn’t expect to find him funny, benevolent, and almost impossible to resist.

There are twists, suspense, political intrigue, assassination attempts, blackmailing, betrayals, a fantastic world-building, with a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance filled with witty exchanges and desire that kept me immersed in the story. Sing Me to Sleep is a compelling and thrilling fantasy debut and I am already looking forward to its sequel.

Gabi Burton's Sing Me To Sleep had me hooked from the start and followed through with great world building, strong and diverse characters, and a surprising and dramatic turn of events towards the end that I didn't see coming. I really enjoyed this book and would highly recommend to other readers who like stories with found family, magical beings, royal courts, and secret assassins. I can't wait to read the next book in the series!

“”Why?” “So I would be the best.” “Why did you want to be the best?” I don’t understand the question. “Should I have aspired for mediocrity?””

I was completely hooked from the first page and devoured the book in 2 nights. It’s fast paced and the intrigue will draw you in immediately and keep you reading one more chapter.

The book follows Saoirse, who is an assassin that is also a siren living in a place where she should no longer exist. There are fae who are the rulers and humans are the lesser class.
She uses her siren abilities to assassinate people and never really thinks much about why they have been targeted. That is until her sister is threatened and leveraged against her to force her to kill the prince, Haynes.
She joins the prince’s guard and we follow as she tries to piece together mystery of who is blackmailing her and who she trust. While also trying not to fall for the prince she is supposed to be killing.

I loved Saoirse so much, a morally grey siren who will do anything to keep those she loves safe. She keeps herself isolated and closed off to everyone to keep her secrets safe but I loved seeing her slowly open up to those around her.
Haynes is a ray of sunshine and always trying to get her to open up and it was fun watching their verbal sparring.
There’s also a great female friendship that develops in the book and of course, all the angst as she tries to stop any feelings for Haynes affect her goals.

There is also a lot mystery and political intrigue as we learn what happened to the rest of the sirens and how the magic system and the world works.
We get a slow build up as Saoirse pieces everything together and the last third of the book is action packed and the plot twists were so good!
I really appreciate the ending and how Saoirse & Hayne’s relationship develops and changes because of the consequences of their actions and I absolutely need the next book asap!

Sing Me To Sleep by Gabi Burton is an enchanting debut fantasy novel that captured my imagination from beginning to end. Set in the intriguing world of Keirdre, where fae, witches, and humans coexist, the story follows Saoirse Sorkova, a siren living a dangerous double life. The author's vivid descriptions and immersive world-building drew me into the kingdom's rich history and complex magical system. I was captivated by Saoirse's struggle to control her siren powers and her morally grey nature, making her a compelling and relatable protagonist.

The dynamic between Saoirse and Prince Hayes added an extra layer of depth to the narrative. Their evolving relationship, filled with tension and unexpected connections, kept me eagerly turning the pages. The slow-burn romance was beautifully crafted, showcasing the grumpy/sunshine trope that I adore. As the plot unfolded, filled with twists and turns, I found myself completely engrossed in the unraveling secrets, political intrigues, and the underlying mystery of a killer within the kingdom.

Gabi Burton's writing style is poetic and evocative, reminiscent of Taylor Swift's folklore. The story's pacing was steady, allowing for deep character development and immersive storytelling. I appreciated the author's ability to balance action, suspense, and emotional depth. Sing Me To Sleep is a remarkable debut that combines elements of dark YA fantasy, complex characters, and an enthralling plot. I eagerly await the next installment in this captivating series.