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Review: What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon!

April 2, 2019 5 Stars - This Was Everything, Favorite Must Reads, Historical Romance, Jessica's Reviews, Ratings, Reviews, Standalone

I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. This post also contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. If you buy the book using the links below, I will receive a small commission from the sale.


Review: What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon!What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon
Series: Standalone Novel
Published by Lake Union Publishing on 3/1/19
Genres: Historical Romance
Pages: 411
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In an unforgettable love story, a woman’s impossible journey through the ages could change everything…

Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time.

The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous place in which to awaken. But there Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, and under the care of Dr. Thomas Smith, guardian to a young boy who is oddly familiar. Mistaken for the boy’s long-missing mother, Anne adopts her identity, convinced the woman’s disappearance is connected to her own.

As tensions rise, Thomas joins the struggle for Ireland’s independence and Anne is drawn into the conflict beside him. Caught between history and her heart, she must decide whether she’s willing to let go of the life she knew for a love she never thought she’d find. But in the end, is the choice actually hers to make?

This book has been in my possession for more than three months and I just decided to read it this week. You might not understand how that could be unless you have the same appreciation for Amy Harmon’s novels as I do. I knew What the Wind Knows would both demand and deserve my full attention and I didn’t feel like I could give it it’s proper due until now. Well, it was not only worth the wait, it was one of the most extraordinary experiences I’ve ever had while reading a novel.

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Jessica’s Review

This book has been in my possession for more than three months and I just decided to read it this week. You might not understand how that could be unless you have the same appreciation for Amy Harmon’s novels as I do. I knew What the Wind Knows would both demand and deserve my full attention and I didn’t feel like I could give it it’s proper due until now. Well, it was not only worth the wait, it was one of the most extraordinary experiences I’ve ever had while reading a novel.

I’m in absolute awe as I sit here, contemplating what I can possibly say that hasn’t already been said. I sit here in awe because Amy Harmon is so far on another level of storytelling and world building and character development, I feel as though she’s our own Anne Gallagher, too big and too magical and too extraordinary for this tiny corner of the book world I exist in. Instead she drifts away, leaving in search of ideas of personalities and truths bigger than what most writers are able to conjure, and she returns with stories so profound, so perfect, so outside the realm of what we’re used to it’s literally beyond my comprehension. It’s absolutely BREATHTAKING what she continues to do and what she’s accomplished with What the Wind Knows.

There’s a scene early on in this book where Anne is looking at photos, not yet understanding the significance of the images she’s looking at. As a successful author with a burning passion to know more about her family’s history, she’s contemplating a trip to write a story of the history of Ireland. Her grandfather tells her not to write about Ireland’s history, but instead to write a love story. Who whispered those words to Amy Harmon as she set off to unearth the secrets of her family, returning with a story so rich with romance but woven seamlessly and remarkably with the history of that land? I couldn’t help but wonder how much of the author’s own story is peppered within these pages. I think that made it even more beautiful… the knowledge that the souls of those long passed live on in these words, just as they did in the journals of one Thomas Smith.

I refuse to go into the story details here, I just need you to know that this book is BEYOND EPIC. It’s quite possibly the most MASTERFUL story this author has written, the details so painstakingly stitched together with truth and historical accuracy and raw, devastating emotion. It’s full of twists and turns, things that I never saw coming that left tears streaking my face as I read. I can’t properly convey how MAJESTIC this book is. It’s so special, so unbelievably extraordinary. It’s an ode to loss, to life, to true love and family and the importance of family history. It’s TOO MUCH to whittle down into a few meaningless words in a book review and because of that you MUST experience it for yourself RIGHT THIS MINUTE.

About the Author

Amy Harmon is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and New York Times Bestselling author. Amy knew at an early age that writing was something she wanted to do, and she divided her time between writing songs and stories as she grew. Having grown up in the middle of wheat fields without a television, with only her books and her siblings to entertain her, she developed a strong sense of what made a good story. Her books are now being published in eighteen different languages, truly a dream come true for a little country girl from Levan, Utah.

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