When We Believed in Mermaids

More of a 3.5

Initially reading this I was hooked and enjoyed it. I had already figured out what happened to Josie when she was young, as it was extremely obvious, however that didn't take away from the first half of the book. The second half fell flat and I just wanted to get through it.

What bothered me was how slow it got in some spots. Josie as a character was selfish and her motives for lying to her husband and kids and for putting her sister and mom through that type of grief was quite unbelievable.

I am not in any way discounting what happened to her but I can't see someone faking their death for the reasons she says she did. I had a hard time feeling any sympathy for her throughout and that took away from the overall story.