{"id":6428,"date":"2015-08-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6428"},"modified":"2015-08-05T10:50:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T15:50:54","slug":"summer-of-chasing-mermaids-by-sarah-ockler-book-review-voice-lost-heart-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6428","title":{"rendered":"Summer of Chasing Mermaids, by Sarah Ockler (book review) – voice lost, heart found?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>A singer with no more voice,
\na young mermaid<\/a> expert ignored,
\na dutiful son without a plan B…<\/p>\n

No surgical procedure can ever restore Elyse’s voice, but time spent with the funny (cousin and her outspoken BFF), the darling (mermaid-obsessed young Sebastian), and the heartbreaker (Christian does what??) may start the healing of her musical soul.<\/p>\n

Ockler writes of another summer of enormous changes in The Book of Broken Hearts<\/em>\u00a0 (my recommendation here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

If your greatest talent\/gift\/strength were taken away forever, how would you cope?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: The Summer of Chasing Mermaids \/ Sarah Ockler.\u00a0 Simon Pulse, 2015. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: After a boat accident robs Elyse of her singing voice, she lands in her aunt’s tiny Oregon town where\u00a0the Trinidadian teen finds herself falling for the wrong guy and caring too much about the shady mayor’s big plans.<\/p>\n

Leaving her twin sister in Tobago was so hard, but staying to watch Natalie continue the singing career which had been theirs together was impossible.<\/p>\n

The warm Caribbean stole her voice; perhaps the chilly Pacific currents can heal her soul. But if Elyse ignores her cousin’s warnings about heart-breaker Christian or helps the summer guy’s little brother search for mermaids, the sea may try to claim her forever.<\/p>\n

A bet between the mayor and Christian’s dad puts Aunt Lemon’s home and gallery in jeopardy, as whichever son wins the Pirate’s Regatta will win the property it stands on.<\/p>\n

Will the mayor’s desire for money turn off-the-beaten-path Atargatis Cove into just another tourist town?
\nCan Christian and Elyse rebuild his sailboat in time for the regatta?
\nCan Elyse face down her fear of being on the water again and help him win?<\/p>\n

Of course, sweet little Sebastian should be able march in the Mermaid Parade, and the property developers must be stopped, and Elyse should decide if she can afford to lose her heart…\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A singer with no more voice, a young mermaid expert ignored, a dutiful son without a plan B… No surgical procedure can ever restore Elyse’s voice, but time spent with the funny (cousin and her outspoken BFF), the darling (mermaid-obsessed young Sebastian), and the heartbreaker (Christian does what??) may start the healing of her musical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[163,4,106,75,265,11,45,20,5,16,40,44,39,27,49,121,86,232,21,57,73,35,33,3,264,6,8,78],"class_list":["post-6428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-african-american","tag-belonging","tag-boats","tag-brothers","tag-caribbean","tag-communication","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-love","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-mermaids","tag-music","tag-oregon","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-tobago","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-witches"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6445,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions\/6445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}