A review by in_love_with_bookish
Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon

emotional sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

 I’m blown away by how much I didn‘t care. I sure as hell surprised myself with my reaction to this story. I felt underwhelmed, distanced, and indifferent and I just don’t know where all of it came from.

We spend our lives complicating what we would do better to accept. Because in acceptance, we put our energies into transcendence.


Where the Lost Wander is the type of story that should rip my heart to pieces and make me sob but I felt nothing. The disconnection was unreal and as much as I tried to care, I simply couldn’t. I knew how I was supposed to feel about the story but I did not feel any of it.

I understand what people are loving the story, It is a story about loss, family, grief and it’s an epic love story as well. A lot of people can relate to that easily and Amy Harmon has a beautiful writing style that just hits hard and deep.

It is impossible to explain to someone who is surrounded by their own language and people just how lonely it is to not understand and to not be understood.


For me, I really struggled to engage in the story and to invest in the characters and their journeys. I also didn’t really feel the love story the way I should. Honestly, I was also bored and kept getting distracted easily. The story failed to captivate me and keep me intrigued so the reading experience was a hard one for me, I kept rereading chapters because my mind kept wandering. I kept forgetting characters' names because there were many of them and the author didn’t develop them that much to make them different. I just struggled big time and that cost me everything.

But I’ll say to take this review with a grain of salt. This is a well-loved story and It has a lot of elements I’m sure will appeal to a lot of readers. If you can connect to the characters, you’ll definitely enjoy it way more than me.

If nothing matters, then there’s no point. If everything matters, there’s no purpose. The trick is to find firm ground between the two ways of being.

 
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