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A review by mstewa02
Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
fast-paced
5.0
It’s 1AM and I’ve just finished reading half of this book in one sitting. This story is beautiful. It never had a pacing problem, and it grew into something more beautiful and complex as it went on. Will update this review tomorrow when I can think again.
Update:
"The hardest thing about life is knowing what matters and what doesn't. If nothing matters, then there's no point. If everything matters, there's no purpose. The trick is to find firm ground between the ways being."
This book is full of quotes like that that make you pause and read again slowly. The characters were so incredibly well developed and you can't help falling in love with nearly all of them. You'd think there would be a pacing issue when reading a story about people traveling hundreds of miles in a wagon, but I ready 200 of its 330 pages in one sitting because I couldn't get enough. The pacing is perfect. The main characters are perfect. This book is perfect.
In the first 150 pages, I couldn't help but see major similarities between this book and the show 1883. But as it goes on, it grows into its own and feels less like that show. (Not that it needed to because this book came first.) All that to say, if you were a fan of 1883, you will probably LOVE this book.
Update:
"The hardest thing about life is knowing what matters and what doesn't. If nothing matters, then there's no point. If everything matters, there's no purpose. The trick is to find firm ground between the ways being."
This book is full of quotes like that that make you pause and read again slowly. The characters were so incredibly well developed and you can't help falling in love with nearly all of them. You'd think there would be a pacing issue when reading a story about people traveling hundreds of miles in a wagon, but I ready 200 of its 330 pages in one sitting because I couldn't get enough. The pacing is perfect. The main characters are perfect. This book is perfect.
In the first 150 pages, I couldn't help but see major similarities between this book and the show 1883. But as it goes on, it grows into its own and feels less like that show. (Not that it needed to because this book came first.) All that to say, if you were a fan of 1883, you will probably LOVE this book.