A review by bluejane73
The Women by Kristin Hannah

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

1.75

The first part of this book was somewhat compelling. The viewpoint of a combat nurse in Vietnam was interesting to me as I haven’t read anything on this topic before. After her return from the war, I lost interest. The book is very repetitive, the characters are flat, and the “plot twists “or surprises in the book were very predictable.
 
I did not finish the Four Winds, and was pretty disappointed with this book too. Will be my last venture into this authors work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Blood, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Child death, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Violence, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, and Suicide attempt