Dr. Kit Bianic has been mourning her sister for fifteen years. Their unconventional childhood led to a strained relationship and then Josie died in a terrorist attack while she was in France. It was the catalyst needed though to get their mother into rehab and AA. Kit has thought of her sister often in the last fifteen years, but one night she catches a brief news story where she swears she sees her sister in the background. Her mother saw the same news story and pleads Kit to go look for her sister. So, Kit takes off for New Zealand with one goal in mind. Find her sister. What Kit didn't expect was meeting the handsome Spaniard, Javier. She sees it as a vacation fling, but Javier sees it as much more.
Josie left her past behind when she moved to New Zeland and reinvented herself as Mari. She has a good life with her husband, Simon, and their two children. She knew there was a risk of her past coming to light when she got caught on camera the night of the fire, so she wasn't all that surprised to see her little sister show up in New Zeland. She lies and tells Simon that Kit was her childhood best friend because she knows that the truth will destroy her marriage. Will she be able to reconcile the past and save her marriage at the same time?
For the most part, I enjoyed When We Believed in Mermaids. The two sisters had a pretty traumatic childhood. Not just neglect from their parents, but the earthquake that tore their family apart. Then there was this random kid that literally swept into their lives. And their parents just treated him like a long lost son. It was clear that for the time that Dylan was with them, he was the stabilizing force for the sisters. Which is a lot to ask of a teen boy. I also really enjoyed the romance between Javier and Kit. I thought it was sweet and romantic. The end seemed a little rushed, though. The author spent all this time developing the characters and the story and then boom. It is over? CLICK HERE FOR SPOILERS.
Bottom Line - When We Believed in Mermaids is a story about reconciliation, forgiveness and two sisters who struggle with both.
Details:
- When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal
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- Pages: 352
- Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
- Publication Date: 7/16/2019
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- Thank you to NetGalley for the book in exchange for a review.
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