Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Night Road by Kristin Hannah

46 reviews

acornell's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Pregnancy

courtneydindin's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A beautiful story. It touches on the impact of grief and the journey of getting through that. Each character was beautiful in their own way and played amazingly into the story. This book will capture you and make you feel as if you’re witnessing everything from the sidelines. I’d highly recommend this read to anyone who loves a page turner that channels your deepest emotions and loves a book full of feeling and heart. I love this book, writer is amazing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Car accident

alyssagirardi's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Car accident

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Drug use

caitsullivan's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

misslaurenreads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Death and Car accident

copperboom311's review against another edition

emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

I've loved most of Kristin Hannah's novels I've read so far...but this one was a bit of a dud for me.  The pace of the first half was incredibly slow, and the Farraday Family seemed like characters out of a cheesy Hallmark movie.  The second half of the story became much more interesting with better character development, and the plot stared to pick up...then the story ended a bit suddenly.  Hoping to find more of Hannah's usual well-rounded & dynamic characters in one of her other novels (her historical fiction is excellent)!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Car accident

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

julienicole1106's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Child death, Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

dyerneedtoread's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Car accident

kowwie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This was my second Kristin Hannah book and I think I enjoyed it more than the first (The Nightingale.) This book is set in the modern world, and some of Hannah's melodramatic character development kind of molds more to this. Or maybe this is only true in my perception.

Overall, I couldn't put this book down. I stayed up until 3am reading and then read all day. It's emotional, and offers some deep discussions about forgiveness between families, friends, and with ourselves.

It can be emotionally triggering to people who have lost someone in a car accident. I got a little choked up, but the author does a fairly good job at showing all of the levels of grief.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

boba_nbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Holy. Cow. If you haven’t read this book, don’t walk but RUN to read it. Kristin Hannah is a masterful storyteller who evokes such emotion from all of her characters that they seem to jump off the page. I loved hearing the story told from all of the main female characters’ POVs.

When Mia died, I felt so deeply for all of the characters and how they experienced her death in different ways. I can’t imagine having to pull the plug on your own child and wonder what if. The scene where they harvest her organs was probably one that gutted me the most.

Without giving too much away, the characters all cope with a major loss, and they find different ways to do so - some healthy, some not so much. They each have to find their way back to themselves and the love they once cherished. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug use

I came to hate Jude in the middle of the book, but she really redeemed herself at the end. Grief impacts all of us in different ways, and I think I need to remember that I have no idea how I’d handle losing your twin daughter and not to judge her .. even if she is just a fictional character.