Book Review: To Be Sung Underwater By Tom McNeal

I recently received a copy of the new book To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal to review.


To Be Sung Underwater is the story of Judith, a middle aged woman who has found herself wondering if her husband is cheating on her. She finds herself thinking what if? What if she has chosen to go back to her first love, Willy, back in Nebraska after college instead of marrying Malcolm? Would she have had her successful career and a teenage daughter like she does now. What if? What if? What if? She finds herself reminiscing more and more, and eventually hires a private investigator to track Willy down. When she finally cracks up the nerve to contact Willy again, will he be the same Willy she remembered?

I felt sad reading this book. Oh, it's written wonderfully - in fact, it's almost hard to believe a man wrote it. We all do it, we can't help ourselves - what if we had one *insert choice here* differently? Would we have a different career, live somewhere else, be married to someone else? It's a case of the grass is always greener on the other side. To showcase some sadness, Judith even ends up renting a storage unit after her husband and daughter nix one of her most prized possessions as a child - and begins to sleep there. Geesh. Hiding out in a storage unit? Depressing. It gets sadder, as I am sure you can guess without me even needing to give you a spoiler. Sadness aside, it's a really good book if you enjoy fiction.

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To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal is a hardcover fiction book published by Little, Brown, and Company. It is 448 pages long. The suggested cover price is $24.99, but Amazon has it available for $ as of this posting. It is also available as an e-book for the Kindle and other e-readers.

I received a copy of this book in order to read it and share my thoughts on it. All opinions are my own, and not that of the author(s) or publisher.