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Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon

19 reviews

bree_of_the_woods's review

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, War, Violence, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault and Animal cruelty

cmm9200's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Oh my gosh. The ending had me weepy. I was unsure about this book, at first. I'm not an historical fiction girly. I'm so glad I stuck with it. Some slow parts, but the story was amazing. Highly recommend! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Rape, Blood, Child death, and Death of parent

jocogr's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Pregnancy, Racism, Violence, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Death of parent, Animal death, Blood, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Death, Gore, and Suicidal thoughts

ali_james's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Rape

kylaslittlelibrary's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Death of parent, and Rape

kefink's review

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Child death, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Violence, and Death of parent

kgormley's review

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

 I really enjoyed this book, but it is not an easy read (or listen) ... definitely not for the faint-of-heart. I am pretty sure I'd last about 2 minutes out there on the trail west. Those people faced more hardships that we can even imagine and this story brought a lot of that to life. More than once I wanted to cry along with the characters for the things they were having to endure. If you can handle the occasional descriptions of violence, blood and gore (there is also one rape scene), and the occasional language, I would recommend this very moving story. I think I will read other titles by this author in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Death of parent, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Rape and Cursing

alyse_turns_pages's review

adventurous emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

-historical fiction

-strong character development

-forbidden love

-grief

-two cultures at odds with moments of understanding, grace and peace. 

A journey following Naomi and her family to California via the Oregon Trail. 

Reading about the dangers travelers faced while making this trek gave me anxiety. From Cholera, to giving birth, inclement weather, and wagon malfunctions…so many things can and often didn’t wring for these people. 

My favorite part of this book is near the end and I won’t give spoilers but the tenderness, compassion and understanding that was given to these characters at the end was touching and meaningful. 

I will say the beginning of this book was a tad slow. Setting the scene and building momentum. Once I hit about 60% I knew I was hooked in until I finished it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Kidnapping, Grief, Violence, Rape, and Racism

cc0906's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Kidnapping, Child death, Violence, Gore, Sexism, Death, and Racism

bailey_books's review

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.5

I’ve enjoyed a lot of Amy Harmon but this one was not it for me. Very grim story with a lot of violence and death of beloved characters. I don’t have enough knowledge of Native American culture to know if this was dealt with sensitively, but I have some questions there. Main character romance appears to be based on nothing substantial and doesn’t really grow.

This is a skip for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Rape