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When We Believed in Mermaids
by Barbara O'Neal
This book is one of those hard ones which I do not know what to say. My actual rating would really be a 3.5, not a full 4 - since in order to rate it a 4, I would like the book. However, I do not dislike it either (thus a 3) - it's a nice and melancholic story, just not my cup of coffee at all.
The book came recommended on many social media which I stumbled upon and reading the synopsis at the end of the book - I thought it would be more of a mystery genre, which I would have liked, but this wasn't.
This book tells the tale of two sisters who, in alternate chapters reminisces the times when they were young , carefree and - believed in mermaids. The pace of the story was excruciatingly slow for me and the whole book practically took place in just the few weeks of the younger sister's arrival in New Zealand to look for her assumed dead sister. While some who likes this genre might like how the story slowly builds it pace and the revelation of how the current lives of the sisters came to be, I was ready to give up towards the middle of the book when both sisters still have yet to meet face to face. It was almost 70% into the book that the sisters finally met.
And even then, the meeting was fleeting. The plot then moved rather quickly with just a few paragraphs of the 'dead' sister revealing the truth of what happened, the protagonist sister being angry but forgiving the other in an instant, a disappointed husband who was ready for divorce and yet in a second, became a good husband again, accompanying wifey and kids and a stranger fly to another continent to declare that they are family to the main protagonist.
Long story short - I don't feel satiated by this and I have not read a book which I am not satisfied with for some time.
The book came recommended on many social media which I stumbled upon and reading the synopsis at the end of the book - I thought it would be more of a mystery genre, which I would have liked, but this wasn't.
This book tells the tale of two sisters who, in alternate chapters reminisces the times when they were young , carefree and - believed in mermaids. The pace of the story was excruciatingly slow for me and the whole book practically took place in just the few weeks of the younger sister's arrival in New Zealand to look for her assumed dead sister. While some who likes this genre might like how the story slowly builds it pace and the revelation of how the current lives of the sisters came to be, I was ready to give up towards the middle of the book when both sisters still have yet to meet face to face. It was almost 70% into the book that the sisters finally met.
And even then, the meeting was fleeting. The plot then moved rather quickly with just a few paragraphs of the 'dead' sister revealing the truth of what happened, the protagonist sister being angry but forgiving the other in an instant, a disappointed husband who was ready for divorce and yet in a second, became a good husband again, accompanying wifey and kids and a stranger fly to another continent to declare that they are family to the main protagonist.
Long story short - I don't feel satiated by this and I have not read a book which I am not satisfied with for some time.