ashlyncherie 's review for:

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This might be the best book I’ve ever read up to this point in my life. And I’ve never been so destroyed. But I don’t know if I could ever read it again because of how much it destroyed me. The one thing I did not like was when

Lenny got manipulated into confessing!! Like she should have known and I felt the whole plot point was unnecessary.

but despite that, I can’t give it less than 5 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Sexism, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Vomit, War