Blog Tour Review and Giveaway: The Song that Sings Us

The Song That Sings Us is a powerful, visceral and lyrical masterpiece:  an environmental thriller that completely gripped me and took me on a heart-wrenching, but ultimately, hopeful journey. 

Harlon’s home is brutally attacked by those the family have been trying to avoid:  Automators.  She has been raised by her mother to defend her younger siblings, twins Ash and Xeno who are Listeners, having the ability to communicate with animals.  Her fierce, loving mother has told her to find an island lost in the deepest part of the island and as bullets ring out, the children leave their home, chased by the Animators, and fearing that their mother has been killed.

And so begins a heart-pounding, unforgettable and gripping adventure as the siblings become separated from each other, finding themselves on different paths but always with the hope of being reunited.  Xeno is taken first following an avalanche, and faces terrible danger from Doada Sisal, the Head of Intelligence for the Animators as she has a power he wishes to both corrupt and harness.  Harlon and Ash are prepared to put themselves at risk in order to save their sister, but their plan is shattered when Harlon is captured and taken on board an Animator Transporter, and Ash is transported to a tar work station in an icy tundra.  Will they be able to escape their captors?  Can they find each other again, and discover the island that may hold the key to renewal?

The action is relentless, devastating and heartbreaking but also magnificent, awe-inspiring and latent with hope.  Danger, discoveries and threat lead to incredible acts of daring, courage and connection.  The story is told mostly from Harlon, Ash and Doada’s perspectives through a third person viewpoint, weaving together an intriguing and authentic narrative where pace is masterfully controlled, and where revelations, twists and turns lead the reader on an irresistible, tense journey through this epic adventure. 

This is a story with nature at its heart, and I really felt the reverence for the environment throughout as Harlon, Ash and their friends fight against environmental annihilation.  Nature is being usurped by an authority who fear it and who wish to not only destroy animals and plants, but to manipulate and control people, moving them into cities to rely on industry and poisoning their minds against any balance with nature.  There is a chilling cruelty and sense of desperation in Doada’s single-minded desire to destroy not only his, but others’, connection to nature.  Balanced with this sense of loss and hopelessness is nature’s inimitable will to fight back against this human betrayal through the threads of a song that brings humans back to nature:  a song of hope and regeneration.  Thank goodness there are those already on her side, fighting alongside her!

This really is a must-read, unforgettable adventure:  a story for our time, a story to speak to our heart and sing us back to nature. 

#GIVEAWAY : You can also go to my pinned tweet (@marysimms72) to enter a giveaway to win one of three copies of this stunning book which will be sent to the winner by the Publisher.

Thank you so much to Firefly Pressfor inviting me to be part of the Blog Tour, and for providing me with a copy of The Song that Sings Us in exchange for my honest opinion.

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