Kristin Hannah is rapidly moving up the list of authors whose books I want to devour. Her latest, Night Road, is no exception.
Jude Farraday has it all – the handsome doctor husband, beautiful, smart teenage twins, the garden that’s almost perfect enough for the Garden Tour. Lexi Baill has very little – the child of a heroin addict, she is shuffled among foster homes until an aunt turns up and takes her in. When Lexi falls for Jude’s son Zach and befriends his twin sister Mia on the first day of high school, Lexi’s life is intertwined with Jude’s from that point on. A terrible accident after a high school party rips their lives to shreds, casting a dark shadow on their bright futures and breaking the once loving family into pieces. They must learn to forgive themselves and each other in order to put their lives back together.
Night Road is a moving, harrowing, tissues-required novel. The story is told in alternating chapters from Jude’s and Lexi’s points of view, and later on, Lexi’s daughter Grace. I’ve always enjoyed when multiple points of views are presented as it lets you really get inside each character’s head. Hannah does a wonderful job of exploring every emotion and feeling. It’s also apparent she understands a family dynamic; she includes inside jokes, conversations that are realistic, love that isn’t always unconditional and the guilt that goes along with it.
While I greatly enjoyed Night Road, enough to add it to our 5 Star Reads, I do want to warn some interested readers that there are some serious themes: underage drinking and driving and the death of a child. If you don’t like to read books with these themes, you may want to skip Night Road.
We have one copy of Night Road to give away. Leave a comment below and the winner will be announced on March 30. This giveaway is closed.
- The winners of Tugg and Teeny readers are #17 Staci A., #13 Bin, #22 Melissa N.
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Nancy fears the day she has to worry about her kids drinking and driving. She writes about her 2 boys and life in Colorado at Life With My Boys.
sounds like a great book
I would like to win this book
Interesting book
NIGHT ROAD has been on my radar for some time now. I’d love to win a copy. Thanks! 🙂
i would love this book! it looks quite interesting!
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Sounds like a really good book
What a beautiful and scary name for a book – Night Road. Please enter my name in the giveaway.
Just heard about the book. I would like to be included in the giveaway. These are the type of books to help people learn and pass on their learning.
thanks for the chance to read this novel 🙂
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I would love to read a book that is real and this one sounds very real. I would love to win it.
I would love to win this book!
Kristin Hannah is an amazing writer! I would LOVE to win this book! Thanks for the chance.
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I have really enjoyed her other books. Thanks for the chance to win this one!
great need something interesting to read
I need some great new reads for summer. This would be perfect!
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I love Kristin Hannah and would love to win this book!
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I’d really like to read this.
I’ve read one of her books before and I loved it, so I would love to read this one as well.
Sounds like something I would enjoy.
Sounds like a good read. Thanks for the chance!
Sounds fascinating
i like jude already and didnt even know her tale yes kristins awesome speck135les at yahoo
I would like to read this author!
Sounds great thank
Thanks for the giveaway!
KH is always good. I haven’t read one of her books that I didn’t enjoy.
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I hope I win, I love to read!!
This sounds great, I’d like to read it.
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we would really enjoy this
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I would like to read this book
Sounds great
I want to read this book
I have loved everything I read by this author! I’d love to have this book to read and pass on!
Wow-this book has been on my to read list, thank you
I LOVE Kristin Hannah and with two teens of my own, this would be a timely book to read. Thanks.
Pamela, congratulations, you’ve won! Please reply with your mailing address.
Please count me in if it’s international! It sounds interesting.
I love Kristin Hannah!
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While I was eating in a resaurant, I observed a fellow diner reading Night Road by Kristin Hannah. So now I just have to read this book!
It’s what every parent fears. It sounds like it is very well written.
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Looks like a Great read!
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It sounds like a very interesting book. I would love to read it. Thanks.
Yeah, this book is amazing, i have read it two times!