A review by orireading
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

I don’t read a lot of commercial fiction, but I know good commercial fiction has good pacing, and I think the pacing here was weird! Parts of the book were paced like historical fiction, then it would switch to the pacing of a thriller, and back and forth, and then I don’t even know what happened in the last quarter. But points for being good entertainment! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Gore, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Mental illness, Addiction, Murder, Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Blood, and Alcoholism