New favorite author
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Can an author become a favorite after only one book?
I heard about Amanda Dykes’ books from many other bookstagrammers. The first two weeks of September I had some breathing room from Izabella deadlines, checked out Whose Waves These Are from my local library, and took the plunge.
Oh my goodness. *gush* This book. Amanda’s writing.🤯✨️ It was SO good! It was the perfect read for me.
There was drama and intrigue and romance, but not written in a stress you out kind of way. It felt like reading a fanatsy book, while also feeling very historically grounded. I loved it. I would absolutely recommend this book (clean with beautiful faith elements) to any mom who wants a vacation destination for her mind to wander.
The rough Maine landscape paired with the soft-hearted love found in these characters’ lives was so refreshing.
I will definitely be adding another Amanda Dykes book to my ever-growing TBR!
Goodreads Summary
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 Sawyer 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.