Après les vampires, les loup-garous, les anges et autres créatures surnaturelles, la littérature Young adult accueille les sirènes, ces êtres qu'on dit "mi-humain, mi-poisson" ! En cherchant sur goodreads des livres qui pourraient me plaire je suis tombée sur quelques bouquins ayant ce thème-là et j'avoue que ça m'intéresse beaucoup... j'ai hâte de pouvoir découvrir la mythologie des sirènes "de nos jours" :)
Ces livres sont en anglais, j'ignore s'ils sont prévus en français mais je n'ai rien vu concernant une éventuelle traduction... mais espérons-le !
Forgive my fins, de Tea Lynn Childs
Publié en VO le 19 mai 2010
Lily Sanderson has a secret, and it’s not that she has a huge crush on gorgeous swimming god Brody Bennett, who makes her heart beat flipper-fast. Unrequited love is hard enough when you’re a normal teenage girl, but when you’re half human, half mermaid like Lily, there’s no such thing as a simple crush. Lily’s mermaid identity is a secret that can’t get out, since she’s not just any mermaid – she’s a Thalassinian princess. When Lily found out three years ago that her mother was actually a human, she finally realized why she didn’t feel quite at home in Thalassinia, and she’s been living on land and going to Seaview high school ever since, hoping to find where she truly belongs. Sure, land has its problems – like her obnoxious, biker boy neighbor Quince Fletcher – but it has that one major perk – Brody. The problem is, mermaids aren’t really the casual dating type – when they “bond,” it’s for life. When Lily’s attempt to win Brody’s love leads to a tsunami-sized case of mistaken identity, she is in for a tidal wave of relationship drama, and she finds out, quick as a tailfin flick, that happily-ever-after never sails quite as smoothly as you planned.
Siren, de Tricia Rayburn
Publié en VO le 13 juillet 2010
Vacationing in Winter Harbor, Maine, is a tradition for Vanessa and Justine Sands, and that means spending time with the Carmichael boys. This summer, Vanessa is determined to channel some of her older sister’s boldness, get over her fear of the ocean, and maybe turn her friendship with Simon Carmichael into something much more. But when Justine goes cliff-diving after a big family argument, and her body washes ashore the next day, Vanessa is sure that it was more than an accident. She is more certain of this, when she discovers that her sister was keeping some big secrets and Caleb Carmichael’s gone missing. Suddenly, the entire oceanfront town is abuzz when a series of grim, water-related accidents occur, with the male victims washed ashore grinning from ear to ear. Vanessa and Simon team up to figure out if these creepy deaths have anything to do with Justine and Caleb. But will what Vanessa discovers mean the end of her summer romance, or even life as she knows it?
Tempest Rising, de Tracy Deebs
Publié en VO le 10 mai 2011
Tempest Maguire wants nothing more than to surf the killer waves near her California home; continue her steady relationship with her boyfriend, Mark; and take care of her brothers and surfer dad. But Tempest is half mermaid, and as her seventeenth birthday approaches, she will have to decide whether to remain on land or give herself to the ocean like her mother. The pull of the water becomes as insistent as her attraction to Kai, a gorgeous surfer whose uncanny abilities hint at an otherworldly identity as well. And when Tempest does finally give in to the water's temptation and enters a fantastical underwater world, she finds that a larger destiny awaits her—and that the entire ocean's future hangs in the balance.
Ces trois livres sont déjà disponibles mais il y a aussi Ripple de Mandy Hubbard et Between the sea and sky de Jaclyn Dolamore qui sont respectivement prévus pour le 21 juillet et le 25 octobre 2011 (en VO toujours).
Alors maintenant, j'attends vos réactions...
intéressés par les Sirènes ?!?
(désolée de ne pas avoir traduit les résumés mais je suis pas douée pour ça, lol)
