Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Night Road by Kristin Hannah

37 reviews

nick_00's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Car accident, and Drug abuse

randeerebecca's review

emotional hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

alukasavitz's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Minor: Drug use

elizabethwb's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective 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: Grief, Confinement, Alcohol, Classism, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

Moderate: Drug abuse and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Emotional abuse and Adult/minor relationship

brin3543's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

Another Kristin Hannah novel that moved me to tears and had my heart aching for the characters. The ending felt extremely rushed but still overall enjoyed this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Death

natbaggett's review

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Grief, and Child death

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Abandonment

erica_reads_things's review

emotional funny 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? It's complicated

3.0

This was not my favorite Kristin Hannah book that I've read, but it was a solid "pretty okay". I really loved the story of the 3 friends far more than I enjoyed the added narrative of the mom. I really did not like or empathize with her character until the last 30 pages. The way she was set up in the first half of the book just did not bode well for me to relate or make her choices after tragedy make sense. The end was also wrapped up incredibly quickly for me. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical content and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Bullying, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

crazybooklady91'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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death

cassidypamela's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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: Car accident, Death, and Child death

kimb2'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? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Have you ever arm chair quarterbacked while reading a book?  Have you ever been so angry and irritated by a character while reading?  I was both with this book.

Jude Farraday made me so angry.  She is the epitome of a helicopter parent.  She doesn’t see reality and doesn’t accept fault.

It’s a sign of a good writing when you are drawn in and get emotional when reading.  This is a powerful coming of age story mired with themes of grief, redemption and forgiveness.  It’s a story of how one decision, however right it felt at the time, can alter the course of life in unimaginable ways for the person and those around them.

My only issue is that this was a pretty predictable story.  But Kristin Hannah is an excellent storyteller nonetheless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death