#Kristin Hannah the great alone

[shesdoingjustfine]

Kristin Hannah! I cannot thank you enough for the beautiful masterpiece, The Great Alone. This is by far, my new favorite novel. As a young adult, I always fanaticized moving to Alaska, starting a homestead, and living a life of wild adventure. This book satisfied something deep in my soul and is a novel I could read again and again.

This book was the perfect conglomerate of adventure, thrill, fear, and romance. I cannot recommend it enough!

[battleslippers]

she's so unbelievably real

[jennamacaroni]

Such a thin veil separated the past from the present; they existed simultaneously in the human heart. Anything could transport you–the smell of the sea at low tide, the screech of a gull, the turquoise of a glacier-fed river. A voice in the wind could be both true and imagined. Especially here.

Kristin Hannah, "The Great Alone"

[rains-of-words]

Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I’ve got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place.

Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

[desdasiwrites]

– Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

[goodnessgraciousgal]

“Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

From the novel: The Great Alone // Kristin Hannah

[marisareadsalot]

If anyone has tricks on how to get stickers off of books it would be much appreciated 🫶🏽

[mybookhaven]

The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah

Historical fiction - Domestic abuse - Romance

⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)

Historical fiction will always have a special place in my heart even though i've been shattered to pieces on multiple occasions after reading books in said genre. This is a book about love. Love that hurts, love that builds, love that blinds, and love that kills. It is a very heavy book and i would recommend anyone who is sensitive to topics of domestic abuse to go through trigger warnings before starting it. I can still feel the heaviness of it all in my heart, and that's how i know it will hold its place inside my mind forever.

Cover design: Michael Storrings

The book is about a family of three, Leni a 13 year old girl, and her parents Cora and Ernt who upend their lives in Seattle (1974) to move to the state of Alaska for a fresh start. It's about people that find themselves in a place where "wild" takes on a deeper meaning finding its way to every crevice in their lives. A family that breaks and rebuilds with the whims of a man left broken from the war. It's a story about so many kinds of love that can hurt and grow at the same time.

Hannah was able to paint the events of the books in a way that felt very intimate to the reader. I felt like i was standing there next to the characters fighting the urge to reach out and help in situations that tore me apart. The characters were so well developed and felt very real to me which made everything that happens much more painful to witness.

It's a book about life, and how beautiful and ugly it can be, and how unfair it is to be born in a situation so out of your control that affects each and every step you take.

One of my favorite things about this book is the setting, middle of nowhere Alaska surrounded by the wild beauty of the northern (semi)wild. And i think it was the perfect place to reflect everything the book stands for.

My only issue was that the book was sometimes very slow paced, though i understood the need for those sections later on. But other than that, I would definitely recommend it to the world. Just make sure that you do not need your mood to be stable for the period of reading the book because it took over me completely that i found it hard to function well enough to get back to my work😅.

[ademella]

currently reading

[satashiiwrites]

Alaska herself can be Sleeping Beauty one minute and a bitch with a sawed-off shotgun the next. There’s a saying: Up here you can make one mistake. The second one will kill you.

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

[veganpeachpie]

I'm reading The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah right now, and I have a few predictions. (Do NOT continue reading if you have not read this book)

I think that Ernt is going to die as a direct result of his own actions. Given the downward spiral he is headed on, I think that that would be the most logical conclusion to his character arc. At the beginning, he did seem to genuinely care about his family, but I feel like the paranoia (and alcohol) is taking over his head and they are definitely moving down on the priority list. I was thinking that there could also be the option of him turning his thinking around and becoming a good husband/father/person in general, but I really think the point of no return was when he met Mad Earl. They both feed off of each other really unhealthily, and he's in a bit of an echo chamber right now where all his obsessions and conspiracy theories are being "confirmed." Geneva's death may be foreshadowing for how Ernt will die, but I'm not completely set on that theory, although I do predict that he will die because he ignored the advice of locals.

I'm not quite as confident in this prediction, but I think that when Ernt and Mad Earl's group attacks Tom Walker's house, Large Marge will be caught in the crossfire, and her death will be what pulls the community back together. She appears to be a really big pillar of the community, and seeing the rift growing between the two "halves" of the town makes me think that her death would be shocking in a sad way for everyone.

This isn't really a prediction, more of a thought I want to share. If this was a YA novel, I would be predicting a love triangle occurring between Matthew, Leni, and Axle. Every description of Axle screams "tall, dark, and broody," but he hasn't really had an active enough role in the story for me to be able to tell what will happen next. I do think that he will have a greater role as the story progresses since he has been mentioned multiple times and is about the same age as Leni.

I'm at about chapter 9 right now, so I'm really interested in seeing how everything plays out!

[battleslippers]

OUTSIDERS REFERENCE⁉️⁉️⁉️

[cromwelll]

“You stumble into the truth of your existence. You learn what you’ll do to survive.” —Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

[airplanes924]

Books I've Read in 2024

Number 7

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

[intersexalastor]

i've got 30 minutes left in this audiobook and holy shit.

[nonagesiimus]

listened to like four hours of an audiobook that im not super into but im also like. well i sunk four hours into it