Night Road Paperback – January 4, 2022

As with any Kristin Hannah book, I cried my eyes out through various points of the story. The characters are real, the plot is intriguing, and this is such an excellent road map to how a family may handle grief. As always, the relationships between characters remains a focal point of the story, and Kristin Hannah does a phenomenal job of making the reader care about and root for each character (despite their flaws). I absolutely loved this book, and I can’t wait to read more of KH’s works.

I’ve read at least eight other books by Hannah. This is first I am a bit torn about. Parts were compelling and touching while others seemed a bit contrived. I would recommend it but the reader needs to suspend disbelief a bit and just feel the message.

This is novel follows a winding path that has you rejoicing and tearing up. Great character development and a rhythm to it that keeps you wanting to read. It explores some of the most monumental decisions in life. Wonderfully written. Thank you!

Great read, Vey different from The Women which I loved . Didn’t think I would like when I started to read but then I got hooked on it

I usually don't write reviews, but instead just leave a numerical rating of my opinion of a book. I gave Night Road: A Novel by Kristin Hannah a 5, but I really wish I could give it a 10!Before reading the book, I had read overviews of the story and knew that some kind of tragedy was going to happen. I didn't realize it would involve the loss of a child and the profound ways that event would affect the family and friends of the child. I, too, have lost a child so this book has dredged up so many of the emotions and feelings of anger I experienced when my son, Michael, passed away in 2017. He was 37 at the time and is now forever 37.Michael had been out to a bar and had also had to much to drink. As he was walking home he stumbled maybe, was startled maybe, but he did fall and hit his head hard, so very hard, on a metal fence. He suffered an unsurvivable traumatic brain injury. He was in the Neuro ICU for 10 days before brain death was declared and two days later became an organ donor.Forgive me if that was too much information but it was meant to let you know in a few words how I am connected to this story.I most relate to the character of Jude Farraday as she was the mother who lost a child. I completely understood a lot of the feelings and overwhelming sadness and the many "if onlys" Jude experienced. Everyone's grief journey is different, very much like a roller coaster ride. Emotions are up and down, peaks and valleys for a long time. The grief never ends, but it eventually becomes a part of your life that is bearable though can still feel like a punch in the belly at the drop of a hat. I remember the feelings of wanting to be left alone, the wanting to just curl up into a ball in a dark hole, the wanting to sit and do nothing, the anger at God for taking my son when he should have taken me. Michael was just beginning his life and I was old and had had a life. It took me several years to become productive again.Unlike Jude in the book, I was the primary caregiver to my daughter's two children. I always say they saved my life. They gave me a reason to get up and function during the day. At night after making dinner for my husband and me, I would just sit on the couch and watch tv. My quilt making hobby pretty much stopped and all I did was watch tv and maybe occasionally read a book. Jude's journey through her grief was different from mine but yet very similar in some ways. It was cathartic to read her story. It never ceases to amaze me how exquisitely Kristin Hannah can tap into emotions and feelings so perfectly. I have never cried so much reading a book, so keep some tissues handy. This book, with all the feels, has a wonderful ending, which is actually a glorious beginning for the Farraday family in this heartfelt and touching novel.

This story — like a lot of Kristin Hannah’s stories— was about friendship, family, and grief. But this story was a little more predictable than the others so that’s why I give it 4.5 stars

I couldn’t put this book down. I read it night and day every chance I got. It was such a beautiful story.

This is the third Hannah book that I read after two of her most popular recent ones (nightingale and Greta alone), that I think is just average/below average.The first part was good, but the mom in the story is absolutely insufferable. I felt like most of the book was a ad for old school MADD programs.I think Hannah does well with historical fiction because she clearly does a lot of research into the events she writing around. In these earlier novels though, the subject matter isn’t portrayed in a very believable way. I wish she had researched grief and child loss as much as she researched WW2 and Vietnam.I’m kind of disappointed that this is the third book of hers that was so choppy.