Where Do We Begin?

No seriously where do we begin when discussing These Wicked Waters by Emily Layne? Do we start with the fact the first half of the book was so slow that I almost cried because it was like pulling teeth trying to connect to the characters? Or how about there are so many technicalities in the story? Or how about the fact that this is yet another book where once again the writer forgets that the reader is not privy to the author's head?
This book has left me with so many questions and hardly any of them have been answered. Why do some sirens have two tails and others have only one? How does it work? What is the hierarchy for the sirens?
It took me forever to realize that Loreali (I probably misspelled this) her perspective was way in the past even with reading other people's reviews. I mean kudos to the author for doing that and it made the story more interesting when you finally realized that this is happening over a century ago and not like a week before or something like that.
I have a serious question or comment depending on which way a person reads this, but how is it possible for almost every single guy to be considered hot in this book. I was having a hard time picturing what characters looked like half the time because of they all kind of blended together, not to mention that they were all very flat.
The romance between Victor and Annie felt very left field with their kiss in siren infested waters. I wish that the romance had either started earlier or they had stayed as friends because the romance as it stood felt off. Don't get me wrong the hopeless romantic side of me really wanted them to get together, but like most things, in this book, it took too long to get to that point.
Halfway through the story I had to ask myself what was the point of this story.
I am giving this book 3.5 out of 5 stars because the author at least had an original take on sirens. I actually liked that the sirens were bloodthirsty.