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The Women by Kristin Hannah

176 reviews

machenn's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Pregnancy

steens0728's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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

Kristin Hannah does it again. A beautifully told story of Frankie, a young nurse who volunteers in Vietnam during the way, enduring devastating situations, and her struggles returning back to the USA, where everyone, including her own family, do not care about her sacrifices. The story is informative of the time, incredibly sad, and you feel every emotion of the characters. An absolute must-read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

katekatiekait's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Car accident and Classism

bekkz27's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense 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

3.0

I understand the point of this book and the story that Needed to be told. I just struggled with the subject matter and how dry it was. I know trauma isn’t pretty or easy, it just felt like the author was purposefully cruel to the FMC. I didn’t understand why the best friends got off so easy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

They aren’t all graphic, but it is a war book. There is gonna be a fair bit of this stuff.

marc's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

staceyinthesticks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Toxic relationship and Car accident

christie_esau's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

kgoody813's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Car accident, Alcohol, and War

muffin_mouse's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Suicide, Torture, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual content and Abortion

mollyb13's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad medium-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

4.25

My first book from Kristin Hannah and it surely won't be the last! I'm not a huge historical fiction reader but had to check out the hype around this book for myself. The first 50% of the book was AMAZING - you can tell that the author put in hours upon hours of research. I learned a lot and became extremely invested in the story. The only thing that seemed a bit rushed/off was one of the love interests (

Rye - seemed like they were in love out of nowhere. Rushed compared to how slowly everything else was built up)

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I found that the second half (when Frankie returned home from Vietnam) felt rushed and all over the place in general. And while I know that veterans, especially from Vietnam, went through a whole lot upon return home, I think that Hannah could have cut back on the traumas just a bit - literally anything bad you can think of was thrown at this character. It felt like she wanted to cover so many important topics and instead of choosing a couple to focus on, decided to pick them all! I also didn't find

BOTH Rye and Jamie actually being alive

believable. Kind of took away some of the gravity of the story for me.

TL;DR The first half was 5 stars, the second half maybe 3.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Suicide attempt