A review by leweylibrary
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
5.0
It reminds me of Outlander but way, way faster paced!
Quotes I Like:
Quotes I Like:
- Now Leni was old enough to know that like all fairy tales, there's was filled with tickets and dark places and broken dreams, and runaway girls. (23)
- Leni thought maybe he would haunt her. Not just him, but the idea of him, the sad and scary truth that you could love and hate to the same person at the same time, that you could feel a deep and abiding loss and shame for your own weakness and still be glad that this awful thing had been done. (414)
- If you've learned anything from your mother and what happened, it should be this: life--and the law--It's hard on women. Sometimes doing the right thing is no help at all. (496)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Classism, Confinement, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and War