It’s been hard to distill what I want to share about this book, so I’ll start with what my mom told me about it after she sent it a copy to me to read during quarantine: “It’s good.”

What The Wind Knows, by Amy Harmon falls into a unique category that makes it special. There are fantasy books, and there are historical fiction books, but What The Wind Knows somehow combines the two in a way that feels possible, and also altogether magical.

I had just finished reading the second Outlander book in the series not long before when I picked up What The Wind Knows. I slogged through hundreds of pages of the middle of Dragonfly in Amber, Outlander Book Two, unsure if I wanted to finish it OR ever read another book in series.

By contrast, Harmon tells her story without belaboring anything.  What The Wind Knows takes many themes that are familiar from the Outlander series: A fight for independence, a love for the ages, a great unknown. It distills them into a crisp storyline without any fuss, without it feeling bare bones.

Harmon tells her story in a way that won’t leave you wondering if you want to finish the book, other than because you never want it to end. So read it, and send a copy to a friend.