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bamcd9's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Sexual content, Car accident, Abandonment, and Alcohol
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood
snipinfool's review
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The Farraday twins, Zach and Mia, had two loving parents and few struggles in life. Lexi Baill had a very different childhood. She spent much of her life in the foster care system until her high school years when a great aunt had been found who was happy to have Lexi live with her. Lexi knew the first day of high school would be hard. She had been the new kid many times. Mia had one difficulty in her life. She found it hard to make friends she could trust. Mia and Lexi met each other during lunch when Lexi saw Mia eating alone. They realized they had things in common and became friends. Because Zach and Mia did most things together, Lexi was his friend as well. Throughout their high school years, Zach, Mia, and Lexi were together often. Jude, Mia’s and Zach’s mother, took Mia under her wing and happily included her in events that a mother would normally do. The kids’ senior year brought new and exciting changes. College, potentially leaving home, and possibly admitting a crush one had carried for years were things they thought about. A tragedy changed everything in an instant and altered any plans they had made.
This was a hard review to write. So much happened in this book from multiple points of view. I could understand where each person was coming from after the tragedy. I didn’t agree with some of the choices made, but I understood them. I was so angry with Jude. As a mother, I felt she grossly overstepped boundaries. Miles, the twins’ father, was very patient and loved his family very much. I was impressed with his devotion. I don’t want to spoil the book by discussing the teens, but what happened was heartbreaking and sobering. Kristin Hannah had to have spent a great amount of time thinking about how each person was affected and her words brought the story straight to the reader’s heart. I could not help thinking how I would have reacted. Would I have remained sane or clear-headed? This was another one of Ms. Hannah’s beautifully crafted stories.
This was a hard review to write. So much happened in this book from multiple points of view. I could understand where each person was coming from after the tragedy. I didn’t agree with some of the choices made, but I understood them. I was so angry with Jude. As a mother, I felt she grossly overstepped boundaries. Miles, the twins’ father, was very patient and loved his family very much. I was impressed with his devotion. I don’t want to spoil the book by discussing the teens, but what happened was heartbreaking and sobering. Kristin Hannah had to have spent a great amount of time thinking about how each person was affected and her words brought the story straight to the reader’s heart. I could not help thinking how I would have reacted. Would I have remained sane or clear-headed? This was another one of Ms. Hannah’s beautifully crafted stories.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Grief, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Abandonment
natbaggett's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Car accident
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Abandonment
aylacommet's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Abandonment
tara_valeria's review
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-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
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death and Car accident
Moderate: Abandonment
charmiecm's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
I just read a Coleen Hoover book with the exact same plot young girl wracked with guilt over an ACCIDENT goes to jail not knowing she’s pregnant, has the baby, gives it up, gets out and decides maybe it was a mistake. It’s starting to feel like a trope. And why is it always a girl? Just…unimpressive.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, and Car accident
Moderate: Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, and Abandonment
Minor: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Pregnancy
amanda_mh's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I really enjoyed this book, a very emotional story with heavy topics of loss + grief, and relationships of friends, siblings, and parents. Sharing the emotional toll a loss can have on a family, and the strength it takes to find ways to continue on in life.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Grief, and Car accident
Minor: Abandonment
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.
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol
kelly_e's review against another edition
emotional
sad
slow-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
Title: Night Road
Author: Kristin Hannah
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5
Pub Date: March 22 2011
T H R E E • W O R D S
Gripping • Triumphant • Multilayered
📖 S Y N O P S I S
Lexi has bounced from one foster family to the next due to her mom's addiction and lack of parenting. When she ends up with her aunt Eva, she finds stability and love. On the first day of school, she meets Mia, and the two become fast friends. Lexi is embraced by Mia's family, The Farradays. June Farraday has dedicated her life to protecting and helping her children thrive. As their senior year unfolds, one decision will shatter their family and change their lives forever.
💭 T H O U G H T S
Wow - Night Road is a truly special book! It's a journey of human emotion exploring the themes of parenthood, grief, heartbreak, guilt, and forgiveness. Kristin Hannah takes her time in building the story, and her writing is brilliant immersing me directly into the story from the very start. With beautiful and powerful prose, it uses alternative POVs to drive the plot forward, and this works perfectly.
Lexi's character is one that I'll remember long after completion of the book. She displays maturity, growth and strength in taking responsibility. I couldn't help but feel more all of the characters. And while I can see people's aversion to Jude's behaviour, having experienced sudden and tragic death myself, I feel Hannah has captured grief realistically. There is nothing I love more than a book that transports me into the story, makes me contemplate life's choices, and pulls of my heart strings. This book does all of the above and more! It demonstrates how small choices shape our lives and how everything can change in the blink of an eye.
There's countless reasons Kristin Hannah is one of my favourite authors, and this is certainly one of them. Night Road quickly became one of my favourite books by her thus far! I cannot wait to read more of her backlist, and find a nice home for this one on my favourites shelf.
📚 R E C O M M E N D • T O
• Kristin Hannah lovers
• Jodi Picoult fans
• Book clubs
• Everyone!
🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S
"Maybe you need to be broken a little before you can put yourself back together."
"Some endings simply couldn't be what you dreamed."
"She had gone a whole hour without thinking about her heartache. That might not sound like much to some people, but to her it was monumental, like swimming the English Channel. It offered her a glimpse of something she'd given up on: the possibility of being herself again, of even someday being happy with her life. She knew she could never let go of her sadness, but maybe Harriet was right: maybe she could go on. Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob."
"That was something she had learned the past few weeks. In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost."
Author: Kristin Hannah
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5
Pub Date: March 22 2011
T H R E E • W O R D S
Gripping • Triumphant • Multilayered
📖 S Y N O P S I S
Lexi has bounced from one foster family to the next due to her mom's addiction and lack of parenting. When she ends up with her aunt Eva, she finds stability and love. On the first day of school, she meets Mia, and the two become fast friends. Lexi is embraced by Mia's family, The Farradays. June Farraday has dedicated her life to protecting and helping her children thrive. As their senior year unfolds, one decision will shatter their family and change their lives forever.
💭 T H O U G H T S
Wow - Night Road is a truly special book! It's a journey of human emotion exploring the themes of parenthood, grief, heartbreak, guilt, and forgiveness. Kristin Hannah takes her time in building the story, and her writing is brilliant immersing me directly into the story from the very start. With beautiful and powerful prose, it uses alternative POVs to drive the plot forward, and this works perfectly.
Lexi's character is one that I'll remember long after completion of the book. She displays maturity, growth and strength in taking responsibility. I couldn't help but feel more all of the characters. And while I can see people's aversion to Jude's behaviour, having experienced sudden and tragic death myself, I feel Hannah has captured grief realistically. There is nothing I love more than a book that transports me into the story, makes me contemplate life's choices, and pulls of my heart strings. This book does all of the above and more! It demonstrates how small choices shape our lives and how everything can change in the blink of an eye.
There's countless reasons Kristin Hannah is one of my favourite authors, and this is certainly one of them. Night Road quickly became one of my favourite books by her thus far! I cannot wait to read more of her backlist, and find a nice home for this one on my favourites shelf.
📚 R E C O M M E N D • T O
• Kristin Hannah lovers
• Jodi Picoult fans
• Book clubs
• Everyone!
🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S
"Maybe you need to be broken a little before you can put yourself back together."
"Some endings simply couldn't be what you dreamed."
"She had gone a whole hour without thinking about her heartache. That might not sound like much to some people, but to her it was monumental, like swimming the English Channel. It offered her a glimpse of something she'd given up on: the possibility of being herself again, of even someday being happy with her life. She knew she could never let go of her sadness, but maybe Harriet was right: maybe she could go on. Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob."
"That was something she had learned the past few weeks. In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, and Car accident
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Addiction, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment
sibling death, drunk driving, foster care
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