A review by nerdy_book_lover_1987
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

Wow... just wow! This book was outstanding, emotionally draining, powerful, enlightening, and has you feeling all kinds of ways throughout the whole story! At first I was unsure if I was going to like it, took me a minute to really get into it but after I got to about the half way point I started flying through the pages and couldn't stop! I was sucked in and wasn't spit out until the very end and to say I'm very much emotionally drained would be a understatement! This book took me through it... I was happy, sad, mad as hell, overwhelmed, mad again, sad again, and happy once more. I was rooting for Leni and her mom the whole time!! It's hard to watch a person be changed after a war and what they've seen and been through is hard to comes to terms with so to watch the man who is supposed to be a loving husband and father be such a complete asshole was just flabbergasting and heartwrenching especially knowing he was going through it in his mind. Granted that didn't ever make me like him and still don't even now that I'm done the book, but it's definitely eye opening to see how life can change anyone, good or bad. I loved Alaska. This is a bucket list visit for me so any book set in Alaska makes my heart happy even if the story itself wasn't always happy. I'm telling you, if you haven't picked this book up please do! Found family, emotional, time over 3 generations, love, loss, all the feels, just a all round amazing book!!!!