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What a roller coaster read. Action and movement from page one. The Albrights a family of Ernt, Cora, and Lenora. As you read of this family you feel the pain, struggle, confusion, sadness, happiness, joy, excitement, hope, longing, and ending with grace and beauty. Ernt was a happy mechanic with a family until Vietnam called. He was a prisoner of war. He returned four years later with nightmares, fear of the dark, and a hot temper to a wife who loved him too much to leave. Was it love or guilt?
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I haven't sobbed at a book like I sobbed at this book for years. Hannah is the master of writing about perseverance through struggle and she does it in a way where you can't help but be moved. The plot moves at a rapid pace through a whole range of events but it never feels overblown, you are just swept up in the epic struggle of the central characters. I absolutely loved it!
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I tried to temper my expectation for this book because I didn't think it could come close to how amazing I found the Nightengale. For me, it definitely did. I'm embarrassed to admit that I'd put off reading this one because I saw someone's review that sad it was so much like "Where the Crawdads Sing" that it was pointless to read both. I really don't even see the comparison-other than maybe colors on the cover. I also didn't think I'd be that interested in a story set in Alaska. It was fascinati
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Book club read. I liked it but I really thought it was a different style of writing for Kristin Hannah. Well done and really gives a sense of what the Alaskan bush is really like. But I must say that I found the characters to be problematic. For example, there wasn’t a lot of discussion about how they learned from things and how they changed and I would’ve appreciated this dialogue. Also I was basically over the need to explain how dangerous it was there. I got it after like 10 pages of it. Havi
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