This is definitely a book I will be recommending to friends for a long time. Surprisingly, I hadn't heard anything about this book until I went to vote on the 2011 Goodreads polls a few months ago. This book was nominated for best book of 2011, and the cover instantly stood out to me, and I think it's very beautiful. I read the synopsis, and at first was hesitant, because the title, and synopsis seemed to give me the impression that the book would be very predictable. Definitely not the case. Ju...

I didn’t read anything about this book before I started it. I just saw the name Kristin Hannah and downloaded it. At somewhere around the 40 percent mark, my heart sunk. I had to speed read a section of it because it just got too sad. In fiction, you want to put your protagonist against some kind of challenge . . . and then things get even worse. I was silently begging Ms. Hannah not to make things any worse. She did, but she was kind enough to skip ahead so the reader knows bad stuff went down,...

A heartbreaking story of motherhood and the tough choices that parents and their teenagers must make. Night Road recounts a terrible tragedy and examines how loss forever changes you. Young Lexi has had a hard life. Being the daughter of a drug addict, she spent the better part of her childhood moving around foster homes while being continuously let down by her mother. When her great aunt takes her in, she moves to Washington to start a new life. At high school she meets the Farraday family. Mia...

****WARNING!!!! READ THIS REVIEW IF YOU HAVE READ THIS BOOK! Contains spoilers.****Speechless. This book has made me speechless. I'm repeating myself because that's exactly how I feel. This book has pulled my heartstrings. I love Zach, Lexi and Grace. (Obviously!) At first I definitely had mixed feelings about Jude, like she was the mother who revolved her life around her kids, wanted the best for her children (which all parents want), but then I hated her for charging charges against Lexi. I ha...

I almost gave this book one star, but since I at least finished reading it, I figured it had a little merit. Overall, I found the characters unrealistic, shallow, and almost caricatures. I'm not one to speak ill of the dead, but since it's a fictional character I will. Mia is an over-privileged, over indulged self-centered poor little rich girl with no coping skills. We find out out deeply into the book that someone called her "pizza face" in 8th grade so that's why she's frail and needy for the...

::: FULL REVIEW NOW POSTED :::: 5 STARS!!!!!!!!!!! Holy wow, after finishing this book, it feels like I’ve just been through some kind of emotional marathon. My heart is racing. I feel out of breath. There are tears in my eyes. AND I LOVED IT SO MUCH!!!!!Reading Night Road was a bit of a departure from my usual choice in books because, for the most part, I’m a hard-core romance reader. Kristin Hannah however, writes deeply emotional fiction novels that are more widely focused on all kinds of

OKAY ALL YOU TROLLS -- COME AND GET ME!!!!!I know I probably didn't give this enough of a chance. Maybe it would have gotten better. But the other audiobook I was waiting for came in, so it is without any regret whatsoever that I bid this one adieu.The first thing I noticed about this book was how overwritten it was. Way, way too many adjectives. Kristin Hannah seems to have graduated the Babysitter's Club school of overdescription and ham-fisted characterization. You know how in the Babysitter'...

Beautiful, emotive haunting read - another masterpiece from KristinThe story begins with Lexi, she has had a traumatic start to life, her mother suffered from mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse and recently passed away. Lexi was placed into foster care. In 5 years she's lived with multiple families and attended multiple schools Lexi has never felt like she belonged or felt loved, it was so easy for her foster carers to return her like an unwanted gift.Now she is 14 years old, Lexi’s Aunt Eva...

Lexi Baill arrives in Washington State to live with her aunt, Eva Lange, in 2000. Lexi has been bounced around many foster homes throughout her childhood, and spent some sporadic years living with her drug-addict mother in between. But now Lexi has found a home and stability with her aunt Eva, living in a little yellow trailer in Port George, Washington. Jude Farraday is mother to twins Zach and Mia – polar opposites and partners in crime. Mia is shy and reclusive, while Zach is popular and outg...

WOOOW wow wow. I did not expect to love this as much as I did. Or become as addicted. The story was pretty predictable but so good. And so sad. It made me cry, it made me smile, it did so many things in between. I really loved the characters and loved seeing their growth and change and heartbreak and AH it was just so good y'all.

This one started off a little slow. Plus, I really wanted to kill the mother. OK, we are all invested in our children's lives but, c'mon, she was just OTT!!! Even when they were older, Jude was just so much in their business. You have to cut the apron strings at some stage. Saying that, I will be the one who will be a miserable wreck sending my youngest off to college next September.It was sort of obvious what was going to happen ... and it did. It did take a little turn that I did not really se...

What is it about Kristin Hannah’s novels? The plots are a bit predictable. Her main characters usually shine, yet her supporting cast often falls a bit flat. And yet her work is compulsively readable. Her latest, Night Road, is no exception.Like many of her previous books, Night Road focuses on the complicated relationship between mothers and their children. In this case, the mother in question is Jude Farraday, an admittedly (with some hesitation) over-protective, hyper-involved mother of twins...

The premise of this book is straightforward: long-time foster child Lexi, daughter of a drug addict, moves to the Seattle area to live with her great-aunt. There, she befriends Mia, the shy, socially awkward twin sister of Zach, the most popular boy in school. Jude, Mia's and Zach's mother, is overjoyed that Mia has finally found a friend, and adopts Lexi as part of the family. Everything blows up about 1/3 of the way through the book, when Lexi and Zach finally admit their feelings for one anot...

I loved this book. Could not put it down until I was finished, then cried because I was finished.It is one of my all time favorite books by Kristin Hannah and in general. After reading I shared a few parts of the book with my daughter. She was intrigued and ended up reading and loving the book too. I went through so many emotions reading this book. I bought it shortly after it came out and was so excited to read it. It did not disappoint. A stunning tale of love, friendship, loss and forgiveness...