Book Review: When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal @barbaraoneal

 

When We Believed in Mermaids

By Barbara O'Neal 

Her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her on the TV news…

Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It’s what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes is a few heart-wrenching seconds to upend Kit’s world. Live coverage of a club fire in Auckland has captured the image of a woman stumbling through the smoke and debris. Her resemblance to Josie is unbelievable. And unmistakable. With it comes a flood of emotions—grief, loss, and anger—that Kit finally has a chance to put to rest: by finding the sister who’s been living a lie.

After arriving in New Zealand, Kit begins her journey with the memories of the past: of days spent on the beach with Josie. Of a lost teenage boy who’d become part of their family. And of a trauma that has haunted Kit and Josie their entire lives.

Now, if two sisters are to reunite, it can only be by unearthing long-buried secrets and facing a devastating truth that has kept them apart far too long. To regain their relationship, they may have to lose everything.

 Book Rating:

📚📚📚📚📚 = I could not put this book down. I Highly Recommend.

📚📚📚📚 = A really great read.

📚📚📚 = It was enjoyable.

📚📚 = It was okay.

📚 = Um...! 😕

My Review

When We Believed in Mermaids 

📚📚📚📚📚

It isn't often that a book leaves me truly speechless, but in the case of When We Believed in Mermaids, I am finding it terribly difficult to find the right words that would explain how utterly amazing this novel is. It is a voyage of discover, and yet it is also one that will change all of the characters lives forever. 

I really don't know what else to say without giving away massive spoilers, it is perhaps suffice to say that this novel is one in a million and it is deserving of all the recognition it has received.

A truly great book.

You can find it over on Amazon 

Barbara O'Neal is the author of eleven novels of women's fiction, including How to Bake a Perfect Life and The Lost Recipe for Happiness. Her award-winning books have been published in more than a dozen countries, including France, England, Poland, Australia, Turkey, Italy, Germany, and Brazil. She lives in the beautiful city of Colorado Springs with her beloved, a British endurance athlete who vows he'll never lose his accent.