A review by kolson687
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

4.0

This is my eighth Kristin Hannah novel and typically I really enjoy her historical fiction. The Four Winds was not as good as Winter Garden or The Great Alone in my opinion. One of Kristin Hannah’s strengths is really taking the reader to a place and time. In The Four Winds she didn’t disappoint in her ability to transport to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. I can still taste and feel the dust that was everywhere. I also thought she did a great job with the mother/daughter relationship. That being said I have to agree with other reviewers that the plot dragged because it seemed like every possible bad thing that went wrong in this time period happened to Elsa. It was too much! So my overall rating would be a 3.5 rounded up for the beautiful descriptive writing. The ending was not my favorite.