Friday, June 14, 2019

Book: Whose Waves These Are


My thoughts:
I recently finished reading Whose Waves These Are by Amanda Dykes.  I had seen this book mentioned online as a new release and the description sounded interesting.  I cannot say how much I loved this book!  The characters drew me in and the setting made me want to plan a trip to Maine.  This is a beautiful story. 

I wasn't sure if I would like the book when I started reading but I quickly fell in love with the story.  The more I read the more I loved it.  I liked how it jumped to different time periods.  This made it more interesting to me.  I felt the author did a great job tying together the characters and their pain.

I look forward to reading more books from this author, and I hope they are as beautiful as this book. I requested this one from my library.  

About the book:
In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose . . . and rocks. Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something life-giving. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny, coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused hands to work, but the building halts when tragedy strikes.

Decades later, Annie Bliss is summoned back to Ansel-by-the-Sea when she learns her Great-Uncle Robert, the man who became her refuge during the hardest summer of her youth, is now the one in need of help. What she didn't anticipate was finding a wall of heavy boxes hiding in his home. Long-ago memories of stone ruins on a nearby island trigger her curiosity, igniting a fire in her anthropologist soul to uncover answers.

She joins forces with the handsome and mysterious harbor postman, and all her hopes of mending the decades-old chasm in her family seem to point back to the ruins. But with Robert failing fast, her search for answers battles against time, a foe as relentless as the ever-crashing waves upon the sea.  




Have a day of blessings! 
    Bethany

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