A review by corinth113
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

5.0

This book absolutely wrecked me. I wasn’t blown away by The Nightingale so when this book was recommended to me I was hesitant to try it out, but multiple people said it was amazing and it really was. The painful dynamic of what it really means to love and also resent the deeply problematic people in your life was so well done, the villain was impeccably infuriating, the nuance of all these layered themes—UGH, chef’s kiss. It made me feel the way Laura Ingalls Wilder books made me feel as a kid, except darker and more adult, and a lot more moments of profound, profound, FELT heartbreak towards the end. Also, towards the latter part of the book, I kept thinking I knew what came next, but Kristin Hannah kept one unexpected thing coming after another and that is another sign of a job well done. Bravo, KH! Beautiful novel.
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PS: If you like books like Educated or The Glass Castle or even Where the Crawdads Sing, I feel like you’d like this.