I felt it was taking away from the fact that this is a romance novel at it’s base.One of the things I look at when I’m choosing books for Everyday Reading Book Club is the books I’ve wanted to read myself. Yes, they helped me understand what was happening, but it was thick with this information. Discussions about the rebellion, civil war, political meetings, etc. My only reasoning for giving it a 4.5* is that there is a lot of history put in there.

It was unclear if everything was going to fall into place, but never fear Harmon brings things full circle leaving me completely happy with how it came together. I was really caught up in how this book would resolve. Their story flowed at a good pace and I was shipping them forward continually. How understanding is Thomas? Because you better believe I would be freaking out a lot more if “Anne” showed back up, 5 years missing from her time period, without a clue as to what happened. It is so important to know and understand where we come from and WtWK convinced me (and I know that wasn’t the point) to look at my own history. Harmon draws heavily from her own travels to Europe and the time period from which her great+ grandparents lived. This book is steeped in the magic of studying family history. Once again, I was swept away by the way Amy Harmon writes. But in the end, is the choice actually hers to make?

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. Mistaken for the boy’s long-missing mother, Anne adopts her identity, convinced the woman’s disappearance is connected to her own.Īs tensions rise, Thomas joins the struggle for Ireland’s independence and Anne is drawn into the conflict beside him. Thomas Smith, guardian to a young boy who is oddly familiar. But there Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, and under the care of Dr. The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous place in which to awaken. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes.

In an unforgettable love story, a woman’s impossible journey through the ages could change everything….Īnne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland.

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