Book: The Great Alone
Author: Kristin Hannah
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Original Book Review
My most recent 5 stars read: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah.
My mom has been pushing me to read this book for years now (and the only other time she pushed me to read a book was The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, another 5 star read of mine). I was always too scared to pick it up because of its size, but I joined a book club last month where you can pick a book within the month’s theme, and this was at the top of the list for “The Great Outdoors” theme, so I knew it was finally time.
I finished it in less than two days. I couldn’t put it down. It controlled all of my thoughts and woke me up at 6am so I could finish it that second day. It’s one of those books that you start and you immediately think you know how it’s going to end. I was positive I had the entire story mapped out after 100 pages in, and I couldn’t have been more wrong. Nothing happened like I expected it to, and the craziest part of the story happened so quickly that my mouth was gaping.
This book juggles toxic love and healthy love, it dives into the horrors and neverending cycle of abuse, it teaches you to stay hopeful in even the most impossible situations. It was full of dark themes, which is my addiction in literature. I’ve never read Kristin Hannah‘s works until The Great Alone, but I’ll definitely be reading more VERY soon (specifically The Nightingale). I can’t recommend it enough.
