Book Blog #6: Ripple by Mandy Hubbard

Premise
In the novel Ripple by Mandy Hubbard, Lexi is the main character. She has a curse of being a siren, which is a person who is attracted to any body of water. While being in the water, she just starts singing. That is how she accidentally killed Steven, the guy she loved. On her 16th birthday she had a party at her friend's house and was hanging out with Steven. All of a sudden, she couldn't resist the water, so she went to go swimming with him for a while. She started singing and didn't know why she was even singing. The song tricks anyone near her to drown in the water. She finds out that Steven was dead. After that, Lexi lost all of her friends on purpose so that she wouldn't harm anyone. She was still attracted to water, but she knew that she should never go back to the beach. Instead, she went in the woods and found herself a lake, which became her lake. She thought that no one would find it. After 2 years, Cole, Steven's best friend, tries talking with her. She was afraid he might fall in love with her so that's why she tried to ignore him. But that fails and they become friends. And then they start dating, but Lexi hasn't told Cole about her being a siren. She's afraid she's going to loose him, so she decides to keep it a big secret. But then Erik comes in the story, and he says that he could break Lexi's curse.

What I Just Read
Ever since Steven died, Lexi has been visiting Steven's grave. She talks to him and always cry because she misses him a lot. All of a sudden, Sienna comes to the grave and is disappointed when she sees Lexi there crying. Sienna is Steven's sister and Lexi's ex-best-friend. She thought that Lexi didn't care of his death, and she blamed Lexi just because she was there when he died. Sienna even asks Lexi why she didn't tell her. Lexi says that she thought it would be easier if she just hated her. But she couldn't tell her about her secret. After Sienna understands, she becomes friendly with her. Even Lexi's classmates have changed and stopped bullying her. But soon, she realizes that Sienna and her are close to being friends once again. She can't let that happen since she knows that she can accidentally let out her secret and she can hurt Sienna.