by Kristin Hannah
THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah Which would you rather do? Die by freezing, starving or being mauled to death by “Alaska” or die at the hands of your abusive, PTSD addled father? Hannah has written a tense, terrifying love story. But is it a story of love for the beautiful wildness of Alas...
Every once in a while, if you're lucky, you come across a book that is always on your mind. You find yourself at work, the grocery store, yoga class, wondering what the characters are doing, if they're okay, what adventure lies ahead. The Great Alone, by Kristin Hannah, is one of those books. It...
I thought this novel moved quickly, it covered a lot of ground. There were times though that I wanted the novel to move even faster, as the scene unfolding was brutal and it seemed as if time stood still. The landscape provided for a volatile tale and the characters inside this novel filled-in the r...
The setup and the beginning of The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah is intense in the characters, the setting, the situation, and the emotion. It has a sympathetic main character to care about. The events seem frighteningly real. However, as the book proceeds, it seems like a race to incorporate every ...
A special thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Kristin Hannah's newest book takes place in Alaska in the 70s and 80s. The land is wild, unpredictable, and harsh. The Allbrights think Alaska will be their salvation, but for a family in turmoil...
The Great Alone- Kristin Hannah, author; Julia Whelan, narrator This is a hard book to summarize because it goes off on so many tangents over several decades, really beginning in 1974, with a major change in lifestyle for the Allbrights, and ending with a published piece about Alaska, by Lenora Walk...
The emotion that I felt while reading this book? Wow! It was intense. Granted it was a huge negative emotion in the fact that I thoroughly detested one of the main characters. A man suffering, but the damage he caused, erased any pity you ever had for the man. I read this book seething. I will let y...
I’ve never read Ms. Hannah’s work before so I was excited that I had an ARC. In my honest opinion... this book didn’t interest me at all. I’m sorry
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah Have read other works by this author and have learned so much from them, looking forward to more of the same with this book. This one starts out with Leni and she's a teen and they are moving again. Her dad keeps losing his job, drinks a lot and beats up her mother ...
3.5 StarsBookclub February Read. 5 Stars for the breathtaking images of Alaska through the seasons that the author so vividly portrays with her beautiful descriptive prose and 3 stars for the Plot and characters which while interesting tended to play second fiddle to the setting of this Novel for m...
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