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4.39 AVERAGE
4.39 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Like any other good Kristen Hannah book. I was crying by the end of it
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Honestly, first two thirds of this book was a 5 star read for me…… the ending really brought it down imo. Wraps up a little too neatly, and the last section felt like it was lifted from a different book with totally different themes. The first two hundred pages or so were a fascinating character study that I couldn’t put down.
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Idk about this one. A friend called it “the best book ever” and “the women” was decent enough so I gave this one a try. Hannah is a great writer no doubt but I found Leni and her mom to be annoying and their decision making to be wholly stupid. This is the second Hannah book I’ve read where the Black woman side character should have been the protagonist!
I do not believe the author does a good job of showing us why Leni loved Alaska so much. At one point Leni outright says she loves Alaska and as the reader I was surprised by this as I didn’t see it coming.
Leni lives in Alaska for 5 years from the age of 14-18 then acts like she’s new lived in civilization when she’s back in Seattle? Please. “Unlike Leni, her son was growing up as a child of commercial American.” This is so annoying in how false it was - Leni grew up in commercial America too what a joke of a line. She moved to the Alaskan bush at FOURTEEN. She had cartoons and TV and all that shit living in Washington state and wherever else before the move to Alaska. She had a Winnie the Pooh lunchbox once she lived in the Alaskan bush stop it with this. This is the point in the book I started to get extremely annoyed.
Leni is a dumbass for confessing to her role in her dad’s murder and she’s a dumbass for leaving her 6 year old kid who talks like a 4 year old with a grandparent he has never met before instead of calling her own grandparents to care for him. She complains at one point when she’s back in Washington about how so much life “on the Outside” is about your connections versus your survival skills and then her connections in Alaska are the ONLY reason she doesn’t go to prison for the rest of her life. Oh also suddenly Matthew can speak in full, uninterrupted sentences once he sees MJ? Thats not how brain injuries work lolll. Ok I’ll stop now.
I’ll end with this: if you want to learn anything about Indigenous Alaskans this book isn’t it!
I do not believe the author does a good job of showing us why Leni loved Alaska so much. At one point Leni outright says she loves Alaska and as the reader I was surprised by this as I didn’t see it coming.
Leni is a dumbass for confessing to her role in her dad’s murder and she’s a dumbass for leaving her 6 year old kid who talks like a 4 year old with a grandparent he has never met before instead of calling her own grandparents to care for him. She complains at one point when she’s back in Washington about how so much life “on the Outside” is about your connections versus your survival skills and then her connections in Alaska are the ONLY reason she doesn’t go to prison for the rest of her life. Oh also suddenly Matthew can speak in full, uninterrupted sentences once he sees MJ? Thats not how brain injuries work lolll. Ok I’ll stop now.
I’ll end with this: if you want to learn anything about Indigenous Alaskans this book isn’t it!
adventurous
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Would give this a 3.5 instead of a 3 if I could. The description of the Alaskan wilderness was beautiful, but it started to feel almost redundant after awhile. The book doesn’t pull many punches, but it wrapped up a bit too neatly for me, and Leni is the only character for me whose arc really developed.