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The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

11 reviews

geminisoul's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This is one of those stories that makes you stop and reflect on your own inner strength and resilience. It truly shines a light on what people went through during that time period. The author has does an outstanding job of creating characters that seem to leap off the page. They are not perfect but they are so human in some of the best, and for some worst, ways. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Pregnancy

Minor: Bullying, Miscarriage, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, and Deportation

fancyjess_party's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

meghan_w's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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

4.5

My first ever Kristin Hannah novel did not disappoint! I rated 4.5 stars because it took a little longer to get into than I would’ve liked, but it’s worth reading! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

samanthas_book_nook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Sexism, Violence, and Police brutality

sarahfeller's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

sophs_mood_reading's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I always knew from the name of the period that the Great Depression was a very hard time but wow this book took on that and tripled it. 

Elsa Martinelli life had never been one of joy but when the 30’s hit her life on the dust bowl turn devastating. The farm is failing, her husband is a drunk and the land is killing the crops, animals and her children. She must make a decision to attempt to save them. 

This novel depicts the physical, mental and emotional struggle of one family in the depression. Told in a duel point of view of mother and daughter it is a beautiful tale of heartache, determination and fear. 

The imagery makes you taste and feel the dry heat and dust. You really are transported to the time. 

It also highlights how easily human nature can attack an outsider or newcomer and how easy people can take on the “Us and Them” mentality to justify cruelty and injustice. 

Warning I did tear up a couple of times so be aware if reading in public. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, and Abandonment

passionatereader78's review

adventurous challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.5

This is an emotional story. A historical fiction. It's about a challenging lifestyle during a horrible time in history. Elsa is a frail woman or at least thats what her parents have beaten into her. She will never marry, have children, or have a job. At age twenty-five, Elsa starts to rebel against what she's been told. She meets Rafe and gets pregnant. They get married and live with his family on their farm. Elsa's happiness is short lived. When the dust storms take over Texas, Elsa has to decide how to save her family. Do they stay in Texas and fight for their land or do they head to California (The land of milk and honey)not knowing what waits for them? The relationship between Elsa and Loreda(Elsa's daughter)is one filled with turmoil. They love each other and want what's best for their family. They both have different ideas of how to get it. I enjoyed the writing on both sides of their relationship. I thought Elsa was doing what she thought was best from her past experiences and Lareda is young and full of life. She's ready to fight injustice not realizing what she will have to sacrifice to get what she wants. Laredo is whiny at times and I  would have liked about fifty to a hundred pages less. I  don't think we needed everything that was written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Racism, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual content, Police brutality, Medical content, and Medical trauma

ems_rxlibrary's review

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, and Abandonment

oh_neens's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Very well written novel about the dust bowl. Like the unionizing later on and thought the writing was very strong. Probably wouldn’t read again because I don’t care for the Dust Bowl but would recommend to others.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

nightowl_bookworm's review

emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, and Grief

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship