The Song of David

The Law of Moses Series #2

By: Amy Harmon

Narrated by: JD Jackson, Zachary Webber

Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

I won my first fight when I was 11 years old, and I've been throwing punches ever since. Fighting is the purest, truest, most elemental thing there is. Some people describe heaven as a sea of unending white, where choirs sing and loved ones await. But for me, heaven was something else. It sounded like the bell at the beginning of a round, and it tasted like adrenaline. For me, heaven was the octagon.

Until I met Millie, and heaven became something different. I became something different. I knew I loved her when I watched her stand perfectly still in the middle of a crowded room, people swarming, buzzing, slipping around her. No one seemed to see her at all except for the few who squeezed past her, tossing exasperated looks at her unsmiling face. When they realized she wasn't normal, they hurried away. Why was it that no one saw her, yet she was the first thing I saw?

If heaven was the octagon, then she was my angel at the center of it all, the girl with the power to take me down and lift me up again. The girl I wanted to fight for, the girl I wanted to claim. The girl who taught me that sometimes the biggest heroes go unsung, and the most important battles are the ones we don't think we can win.

©2015 Amy Harmon (P)2015 Tantor

I can read Amy's books all day

I wish people were not so cruel, but they are. it's the very special seeing those people who are not. as I get captured in the drama of the people in the story...my heart is played with threw out.

Beautiful love story

What a beautiful & heart wrenching story. Beautifully narrated....Wonderful performance by Jackson & Webber. Highly recommend.

Excellent read.

I highly recommend this series, Moses & David. It touched me deeply. I've never read anything like it. Excellent plot, and seamlessly written. Amy is an author.

Such a good sequel!

Read The Law of Moses first or this book won’t make any sense at all. Once you’re familiar with the main character David “ Tag” Taggert a professional MMA fighter and business owner and his best friend Moses , then you can be introduced to the new characters.
This book deals with blindness, autism, cancer and the specter of death, while trying to be a romance too. That’s a lot to take on.
It was done really well, but it was a little heavy. I liked the first book in the series better. ( even though there’s a serial killer on the loose).
Basically you can’t go wrong with an Amy Harmon book.

Full of the bittersweet

I don’t typically write reviews but am doing so simply to balance out all those reviewers who complained the lack of a happy ending to this story. I did not think the ending was sad at all. Like the premise itself, the ending is hopeful while embracing both the everyday sweet and bitter moments of life. We can’t have one without the other because experiencing one gives meaning to the other.

This is a beautiful story that illustrates what it means to truly love and love well.

Lovely, sweet and sad

The narration of this story is exceptional. I do not care for love stories, I’m glad I made an exception for this book.

A story that tugs on your heartstrings!

I loved the book and listened intently at times. Even though you knew how it would end, it was each fight that held your interest.

What a beautiful fight…

What a master story weaver! The characters relationship’s are so well developed and you feel every emotion. Lessons of love in so many forms written so eloquently.

good but soo much death. poetic but sad.

it found me at a very depressed time and reminded me that what matters most is having loved ones around, that and everything else is bound to be lost in life. but man, the entire series is about death and its heavy. love and death, and the struggle of life..

Unpredictable, Atypical, Heart-wrenching

"No one fights alone."

I am in awe at how incredibly talented Amy Harmon is with words and the story. She has a way of taking an unconventional story or characters, opening the eyes of the reader, and painting a picture that shows a whole new perspective and brings some enlightenment. Just like the other stories she's written, this one is full of passion, provokes inspiration, and it latches on to your heart - squeezing tight - and never lets go.

The Song of David opens as we listen to the message Tag has tapped and left for Millie, on an old school cassette, no less. The chapters alternate between Tag's POV left on these tapes and his best friend Moses's POV. Such a unique way of telling a story. I had already fallen in love with Moses through his story, so I instantly felt connected and invested in the characters I knew and the others that I grew to know in this story.

"The most intimate thing we can do is to allow the people we love most to see us at our worst. At our lowest. At our weakest. True intimacy happens when nothing is perfect."

This story was a creative blend of a romance and mystery. The reader gets the build up of a relationship as Tag and Millie get to know each other while trying to put the pieces together and solve the big question the characters have been trying to determine since the opening of the book.

I love how Tag instinctively wants to help everyone around him. And I love how Millie is such a strong, independent, and confident woman. And even tho she's blind, she makes no excuses for herself and insists no one else does either. And Henry - oh my goodness how I love Henry - is probably my favorite secondary character in this story, often being the one to lighten the mood as he communicates in mostly sports metaphors.

"Millie told me once that the ability to devastate is what makes a song beautiful. Maybe that’s what makes life beautiful too. The ability to devastate. Maybe that’s how we know we’ve lived. How we know we’ve truly loved."

So, just as a warning, if you have a beating heart, this one will get to you. I so desperately needed to know how the last quarter of this book played out that I made the mistake of listening to it on audio as I drove into work one morning. I received a few questionable looks as my fellow commuters saw me sobbing in my car as we waited in traffic. This book made me feel it all. I laughed, I pondered, I got mad, and I definitely cried. I hope you feel this book as much as I did.

“...I'm afraid of not being strong for the people who love me. I'm afraid of the suffering I will cause. I'm afraid of the helplessness I'll feel when I can't make it all better...”

Both narrators were incredible! I always love listening to Zachary Webber, and JD Jackson's deep voice is no exception.

And don't forget this little gem - listen to the official Song of David single on Spotify: http://t.co/4QCGSDu22r