TLC Blog Tour for "The Mermaid's Pendant" by Leann Neal Reilly

The Mermaid's Pendant by Leann Neal Reilly is an absolutely spectacular read! This one is staying with me as a favorite that I know I'm going to want to read again and again.

I love a romantic, magical, fairy tale type story, and we certainly get all of that in this book! Often with a fairy tale they will end with the characters living happily every after, and our romances will end with the characters finally getting together or getting married and......The End. However, what I really love about this book is that this author has taken this story further. The characters don't ride off into the sunset, they ride off into reality and we get to see the continuation of their story.

I really love the way the author has mixed mystery, magical, and mythical things into a modern setting with very modern day characters. If you are a regular reader of my blog you know that I do not believe in giving away plot details. So I'm trying to be very vague but yet give you an idea of some of the wonderful things that I loved about this book. She does this fantastic job of blending some magical, fairy-tale type stories into a very modern and very realistic setting. I absolutely love the combination and I think she does it brilliantly! I think she pulled it off very well in my opinion. I'm not a writer, just an avid reader and lover of books!

I VERY highly recommend this book. Since I review both Christian and non-Christian, I always let my blog readers know when a title is non-Christian. This is a non-Christian title and there is some mild language. However, I think it has some fantastic themes of good vs evil and love, and also about the value of marriage! This is a long book but don't let it's size put you off when you see it! I personally love to spend time in a great story and with great characters, and this one was one that I did not notice the length at all. It flew by and I did not want it to end! If I didn't have a stack of review books waiting, I would flip it over and start it right over again! I miss John and Tamarind already!


Book Summary:

Inspired by the beloved classic The Little Mermaid, THE MERMAID’S PENDANT is a modern fairy tale about growing up and discovering who you are—and what you believe in. At times lyrical, this novel is a fantastic journey filled with magic, myth, romance, and adventure.


Four years after John Wilkerson claims the mermaid Tamarind for his wife, they have an idyllic marriage that depends on a talisman that she crafted on their island paradise. But Tamarind learns a painful truth: it takes more than legs to live on land and more than magic to sustain a bond. When the talisman breaks, she and John are forced to rely on themselves instead of magic.

Three wise women play key roles in the young lovers’ journey to mature love. Ana, Tamarind’s aging mentor, casts spells and performs seductions to keep the lovers apart. Valerie, an expat jewelry maker cum fairy godmother, works her own magic to bring them together. Lucy, their widowed neighbor, grounds the couple in the realities of marriage, parenting, and family.

THE MERMAID’S PENDANT is a story for anyone who has ever believed in the transforming power of love.

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Author Bio:

LeAnn Neal Reilly grew up near the Missouri River, in that fertile land where corn, children, and daydreams take root and thrive. She spent countless hours reading and typing chapters on an old Smith-Corona in her closet, which luckily for her didn’t have doors. Then she put away her daydreams and her stories and headed off, first to graduate magna cum laude from Missouri Western State University, and later to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for a master’s degree in professional writing.


After graduate school, LeAnn worked first for a small multimedia startup and then a research group in the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. After getting married and starting a family, she returned to her adolescent daydreams of writing novels. Never one to shirk from lofty goals, she added home schooling her three children as her day job.

After years of working in an office not much better than an unfinished closet, LeAnn published THE MERMAID’S PENDANT. She is currently working on her next novel. LeAnn lives outside Boston with one husband, three children, a dog named Hobbes (after Calvin &), and a cat named Attila.

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This book was provided for review by Zephon Books.


Blessings,