Book Series Review: Watersong Quartet by Amanda Hocking

I finally finished The Watersong Quartet by Amanda Hocking recently. While the series didn't make it into my favorites, I did find the series satisfying. I loved the two romances blossoming over the course of the series, I loved the minor characters Marcy and Lydia, and I loved how the character list was a reverse of the standard stereotypical cast, with default characters being female and the guys only existing as love interests, dads, or dead bodies.

• Originality: 9/10
• Fast-paced: 8/10
• Mythology: 7/10
• Funny: 6/10
• Romance: 8/10
• Overall rating: 38/50

Pick up this series if you like

• Paranormal romance
• Hot love interests
• Killer ladies
• Siblings relationships

Skip this series if you hate

• Revisions to mythology

While I love just about any take on mythology, I can understand that not everyone is going to like every re-imagining. Furthermore, there was one part of the series that was not fully explained, and while I was able to come up with the reasoning that held with both the rules of the mythology and make sense in the world, a lot of other people did not come to that same conclusion. (read more under the cut)

Well, that's all for my non-spoiler review. You can check under the cut for some discussion on a very specific spoiler-filled part of Elegy, book four of the Watersong Quartet.

In Elegy, the last book in the series, Harper and Gemma are looking for a god, goddess, or muse, in order to find out about how to break the curse. As Demeter, the goddess who inflicted the curse on the sirens in the first place, has been in hiding for centuries, and the muses are all dead, their best bet is to find the goddess whom the last living muse sought out before becoming human. They eventually find out the goddess was going by the name Diana, and research that Diana is the Roman version of Artemis, goddess of the hunt and the moon, but when they actually track down Diana, she turns out to actually be Demeter. 

A lot of people on GoodReads seem to think that this was an attempt to smash the two goddesses into one, but I took this as a red herring. Demeter obviously isn't going to go around as Demeter, as it is an incredibly unusual name that would immediately give away her true identity to any other supernatural beings. There is nothing but her pseudonym to relate her to the Roman goddess Diana, and Harper's suspicion that this is the Roman goddess Diana is based only on the name, occurs before they even meet her, and is clearly just meant to misdirect the reader so that her real identity is a surprise. 

That being said, I think this could have been explained better after the revelation so as to prevent readers from thinking the author has no grasp of Greek mythology.