When We Believed in Mermaids

Barbara O’Neal is a beautiful writer! Since reading this book I’ve read many others by her and I can’t get enough! Because of this book she has become one of my favorite authors. PICK UP A COPY!

Excellent book I could not put down!

This was an interesting read about family connections and what happens when someone lets everyone believe she's died (like self-imposed witness protection) The OMG-she's-alive felt true, and the search was pretty realistic, but I felt that the find was a not something that I could actually connect with. The "dead" sister came across as a selfish airhead (an annoyance to me) and no genuine concern for the pain and anguish she'd caused. Except for the fact that the searching sister found love because of the search, the selfish sister should have remained lost (IMHO). Several interesting characters along the way and a lot of nice, descriptive settings. This is not going to make it on the 100 books you must read before you die list, but it was more like a good beach book. I could see it as a Hallmark movie. The author's writing style is very good and at times, this was a page-turner.