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When We Believed in Mermaids
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- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton, Katherine Littrell
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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Publisher's Summary
An Amazon Charts, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best seller
From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth.
Her sister has been dead for 15 years when she sees her on the TV news....
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- katie brinson
- 11-11-19
Still listening, but barely...
...I can’t imagine who thought it was a good idea to choose a narrator who is incapable of pronouncing certain words/sounds. She can’t say “insight” but rather “unsight”. Not “kiss” but “kuss”. “Nupples” instead of “nipples”. Are you kidding Audible?! Thai doesn’t even get into the words she clearly has never heard and so she butchers the pronunciation. The story is fine. I still haven’t finished but I’m about to stop because of the hideous narration. Please do better next time.
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- Kaitlyn Bouchard DiCicco
- 12-19-19
Hard to get past one of the narrators
Like others have reviewed... it is very hard to get past one of the narrator’s pronunciation of some words. Did no one else listen to this before it was sent off to the public? I really hate to be harsh - it’s not the fault of the narrator because she should have been corrected or not hired in the first place. Many words with the letter “i” in it are pronounced as “u”. “Hands on her hUps”, “kUds”, “nUpples”, etc. It’s very distracting. I’ve only just started listening, but I felt the need to share.
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- R. Robinson
- 10-26-19
Disappointing
I tried to keep going with this.one, but the farther I progressed, the worse it got. I felt like the author was getting paid by the adjective count. The rambling on of descriptive details about every single scene was not only distracting to the story but so repetitive that I started to feel like I was being talked down to. I eventually gave up, no longer caring how the story ends.
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- Mya C.
- 11-08-19
A dull read that drags on
I wanted to like this book. Initially, the characters were interesting and the story line slightly engaging. Then, brace for a reiteration of an overly descriptive/repetitive walk through the character's memories over and over again. It was an, "OK, we get it!" kind of book. And....don't get me started on the bizarre narration. It was incredibly distracting to hear the actor with such a thick accent try to sell her American born character through the wraparound syllables of Australia. I found myself focused on her I's which always came out as U's. I am 3/4 way into this book and declared, "U'm, done."
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- Carrie Ann
- 11-27-19
Weak!
The story was so lame. It could've been so good had they built up the whole character theme and everything else. Kit as a narrator was horrific! That narrator sounded so disinterested, and it had nothing to do with the character of the story, it was the narrator who is terrible in her delivery. The overall story, bleh, I would not recommend this. It's a cute theme about mermaids and would be a very safe PG-ish book club read.
45 people found this helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 08-03-19
Narrator Pronunciation
I am about 2 hours into this book and although the story is ok I am about to give up because the narrators are AWFUL! The one narrating Kit is tolerable I guess but not that great but the one that is narrating for Josie/Mari is clearly not American. That’s not a problem In and of itself, i actually usually prefer foreign narrators because their voices tend to be more pleasant to me. However, she is narrating an American character and nowhere in America do they pronounce I as U. Fungers, that’s how she said fingers. Every short I is pronounced as “uh” and it is driving me crazy! I may need a refund on this one.
84 people found this helpful
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- M. Ryder
- 11-22-19
Just Plain Boring!
Story is uneventful, and pretty much goes nowhere... both narrators are really awful! Their attempts at accents were pathetic! Characture-like... don’t even bother listening! Parts read like a romance novel.
23 people found this helpful
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- mlfarr
- 08-24-19
Couldn't finish.
Got about half way through but couldn't finish. To much descriptions of sex, food and drug use. Story started to really drag making the book feel like it was rambling on forever.
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- amazon2
- 10-31-19
a little too sentimental
the book was very predictable and sometimes so sentimental or sickeningly sweet that I struggle to get through it.
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- kindle unlimited user
- 08-02-19
When we believed in !mermaids
I don't get the rave reviews granted I'm not finished yet but a third thru i find it very average , kit is supposed to be looking for her sister in a foreign country but so far she spends a lot of time iwith a man she has met. Going around as if she had all the time In the world a physician with time off? Kinda silly almost, In my opinion it would have to change drastically to rate above a 3 for me anywa.y but we are all different when it comes to storytelling .
26 people found this helpful
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- Kerry Burrows
- 05-13-21
Amazing
What an heart whelming story, a family so broken at the beginning and in the middle, then in the end they find themselves, each other and love again, so beautiful, pulls on the heart strings so much.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-01-21
Moving story, emotionally charged
Loved this book although it made me cry at times. Best I have read for a while.
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- Ana Silva
- 05-26-20
Very weak
There is a good story in there, just not the one that's told. Main characters are bland and unlikely. Any potentially interesting characters are dead. but I wouldn't trust the author not to make them bland stereotypes anyway. Soppy rubbish really.
Narrators both have NZ accents as well, which makes no sense.
Definitely give it a miss.
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- T. Giles
- 05-03-20
Beautiful
a lovely story, your heart swells like the seas reading this story as lives are unravelled, truths come out. you can smell the salt in the air and feel the sand on your feet and the sun on your face descriptions are so real, warning tissues will be needed. beautifully narrated, my second audio book got use to accents quickly.
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- Joyce Rigg
- 10-25-21
Rubbish
It you enjoy Harlequin Romances and pointless stories where whole chapters are given to explaining what the main character does in bed with the guy she just met in a cafe, then this is for you.
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- Reebers
- 09-02-21
dull
far far far too much unnecessary description this could have been 10 chapters shorter and the story much tighter. dodgy accents too. disappointing.
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- FIONA S.
- 04-05-20
Mellow yet emotional
I nearly didn’t bother with this book after reading some of the American reviews which were so disparaging of the narration. They were very critical of one of the narrator’s abilities to pronounce certain words. Turns out the narrator (and the character) just have a kiwi accent and her pronunciation was perfectly fine. Granted, a US/Kiwi accent is a bit of a mouthful, but it’s what the character has so it’s how she was narrated!
Anyway, this is a gently paced story of self discovery, reflection and love. Probably not one I’ll think of often but certainly enjoyable and engaging.
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- Dr Ian V Douglas
- 06-06-20
Shame about the narration
The use of the so called New Zealand accent was appalling and detracted from the story. If your going to quote place names etc at least get it correct. Maori has a specific pronunciation and it was disappointing to hear that incorrectly pronounced
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- Laura Owen
- 05-23-20
Dodgy kiwi accent
Liked the overall story but as someone who lives in NZ, I cringed every time they attempted the kiwi accent...so bad!!! If you’re familiar with the accent, maybe stick to reading this one! If you’re not familiar, the kiwi accent sounds nothing like this (just so you know!)
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- Anonymous User
- 07-14-20
Loved it
I really, really liked this book. Dammit, I loved it.
Bought this on a complete whim and was hooked from the beginning. Found the characters highly relatable and fell in love with Javier from the moment he arrived. Also enjoyed the inclusion of Kitt's relationship with Hobo, anyone with this type of love in their life will relate to her feelings of guilt and wariness in placing it under stress,
Disturbing at times but well handled in the telling. Looking forward to discovering more of Barbara O'Neal's work.
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- Butterflyness
- 02-01-20
Loved the story and narration
I really enjoyed this book, it was so heartfelt and the mystery as to why Josie faked her death kept me going. I found the characters interesting and relatable and also especially enjoyed the description of Auckland, having visited there myself recently.
Reading other reviews from the USA it is amusing how many people didn’t understand that the narrators were using a Kiwi accent. Yep they do pronounce fingers as fungers!
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- Anonymous User
- 05-21-20
Accents poorly executed but good story
Unfortunately the narration is spoiled somewhat by some very poorly executed “NZ” accents :( otherwise good story, but this made it difficult to lis n to and was very distracting. Would have been easier to listen to if read by people who could do the accents properly and correctly pronounce certain words.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-02-20
The Narrators were amazing.
I loved this deep and moving story and the narrators were truly gifted at playing all the characters.
A quiet, soulful story. Although it was good, I had to have breaks along the way as it became very heavy with no lighter, humourous parts unless you count them enjoying surfing.
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- Fiona Trevelyan
- 04-10-21
A whimsical story of two sisters with terrible NZ accents
The rendition of this story was marred by the worst attempts of New Zealand accents I’ve heard. I found the fake accents both irritating and distracting from the character development and plot line. This is a book to be read and not listened to.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-18-22
annoying narrator
Narrators inflection made me really dislike the main character Kit so it was hard to get into this book
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-23-22
Moving
A beautiful, heart wrenching story. Loved it. Only slight detraction was the pronunciation of "Maori".