✨📖📕Reread: The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah📕📖✨
Reread The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah with the audible audiobook. I have a lot of feelings about this book. I did really enjoy reading it. It is an adventure, and Kristen Hannah beautifully describes the harsh and unforgiving climate of Alaska in the 80s. A lot of this book is about an abusive relationship, and how people can become physically and emotionally trapped. It was definitely frustrating at parts but this book did a pretty good explanation for, "Why can't she just leave?" This book is really long, but I liked the fact that it was so long. I kind of liked getting lost in its pages. I love Kristen Hannah's novels. She is an excellent storyteller, and reading her books, you can kind of imagine a movie in your head. A few critisms on goodreads is that the ending seemed a bit hasty, like the author was anxious to have all her characters ending up where she needed them to be. And I can kind of see that. I feel like the book could have been less descriptive in some places, but I really enjoyed Lenny's writing excerpts and her reading lists.
I gave this book away to a friend today. TBH, I think this is the first time I read this book in its entirety. The first time when I borrowed it from the library, I think I read through Act 1 (which features the cycle of abuse the mother Cora and daughter find themselves ensnared in after the father Ernt comes back traumatized from Vietnam), and I think I got frustrated and bored and I gave up.
Apparently a movie is being conceptualized for this book. But I'm not really holding my breath. I still haven't heard anything about The Nightingale. Anyhow I'm glad I gave this book away to someone I know. There are some books you can read an infinite times, and there are other books you can only read once or twice. This was a great story, but it was the latter.