Book Review: Where the Wind Takes Us by Kelly Harms

3⭐
Genre ~ women’s fiction
Setting ~ Atlantic Ocean from Maine to Florida
Publication date ~ October 18, 2022
Publisher ~ Lake Union Publishing
Est Page Count ~ 281 (37 chapters)
Audio length ~ 9 hours 3 minutes
Narrator ~ Angela Lin
POV ~ single 1st person POV, present tense
Featuring ~ age gap (42 & 26), closed door (or open air I guess) steamage

My review:

Becca is a former rich divorcee trying to make it on her own with only a boat to her name. In order to make ends meet she sells the boat. She and her 21 year old daughter, Olivia, set sail from Maine to Miami to deliver it to the new buyer.

I really enjoyed the thought of the mother/daughter bonding trip, until I didn’t. Their relationship wasn’t all sunshine like I had hoped it would be. In fact the last bit with them at the end was really saddening. Olivia ends up leaving her when they docked one day and Grant, a hot, younger Irishman enters the picture and joins Becca for the remainder of the journey. He is a sailing instructor, so luckily he knows what he’s doing. He’s actually Olivia’s former TA and honestly I didn’t like where their plotline when.

Overall, this was as slow moving as sailing down the coast was, which is apparently quite the feat as I now know since I’m well versed on the subject. Not that I’ll ever go sailing because I’m not a big fan of boats in any size, but this does attest to how knowledgeable the author is. While I did like that on one hand on the other it was too much of all the mechanics of it for me. I did really like how it was about the journey of what is next for Becca and I’m happy with where her life will go moving forward. Love the title, too.

Narration notes:
I did not listen to this one, but am just giving the info above for reference.

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Book blurb:

When life stops making sense, it’s time to raise the anchor and follow the tide.

Twenty-two years of marriage, and all Becca Larkin’s divorce settlement includes is a live-aboard sailboat and a huge helping of heartache.

So when normally cautious Becca proposes a girls’ trip with her daughter, Liv, boating from Maine to a ready buyer for the boat in Miami, it seems like a recipe for a fun summer and a fresh start. After all, how hard can this sailing thing be?

Enter Grant Murphy, a stunning Irish sailing coach that Liv can barely stand—and Becca can’t seem to resist. Grant’s too young for Becca, but he’s insightful and kind, and his passion for sailing is contagious. Through his eyes, Becca sees for the first time in years a future she might want to navigate toward.

There are seventeen hundred miles between Maine and Miami, but the journey Becca’s on can’t be charted on any map. And the only way to get there is to hoist the sails and throw caution to the wind. From the bestselling author of The Overdue Life of Amy Byler comes a sparkling novel about mothers and daughters, change and escape, and learning to love again.

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