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    Night Road

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    In Kristen Hannah's Night Road the consequence of one terrible night changes a group of young people's lives forever.

    'Movingly written and plotted . . . you’ll keep turning the pages until the last racking sob.' - The Daily Mail

    Lexi and Mia are inseparable from the moment they start high school. Different in so many ways – Lexi is an orphan and lives with her aunt on a trailer park, while Mia is a golden girl blessed with a loving family, and a beautiful home. Yet they recognize something in each other which sets them apart from the crowd, and Mia comes to rely heavily on Lexi’s steadfast friendship.

    Mia’s beloved, and incredibly good-looking, twin brother Zach, finds life much less complicated than his sister. He'd always sailed through life easily achieving whatever he, and his family, wanted and expected – but then he fell in love.

    The summer they graduated is a time they will always remember, and one they could never forget. It is a summer of love, best friends, shared confidences and promises. Then one moment one night changes them all forever. As hearts are broken, loyalties challenged and hopes dashed, the time has come to leave childhood behind and learn to face the future.

    Selected for the UK's TV Book Club Summer Read.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateJun 17, 2011
    ISBN9780230761353
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    Kristin Hannah

    Kristin Hannah is an award-winning international number one bestselling author with over 25 million copies of her books sold worldwide. Her most recent titles, The Four Winds, The Nightingale and The Great Alone won numerous best fiction awards and her earlier novel, Firefly Lane, is currently a bestselling series on Netflix. Kristin is a lawyer-turned-writer and is the mother of one son. She and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle.

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    • 5/5
      Kristin Hannah has another solid life story in her latest novel: Night Road. This is the story of friendship and love and seeing things when others don't. Lexi has been passed around in foster care since her drug addicted mother died. When she settles in one place she meets a true friend and becomes a vital part of their family. Many things happen for a reason and this story is all about forgiveness. Very touching.
    • 4/5
      Occasionally, a book comes along that is a true honor to read, Kristin Hannah's, Night Road was just that for me.In the first few chapters I thought this book might be too young for me yet there was something in the prologue that kept me turning the pages, in fact I turned every page in less than 24 hours. The family was developed, no, not perfect and flawless, when you really look at them from the inside. The mother, Jade, I immediately related to. She loved her children "more than air". Jade wanted to protect them from their own mistakes, oh yes, understandable.Dare to pick up this book, know the bond between twins is ever so real. Also you will know ahead of time that something is going to happen. That's ok. Feel how Hannah manages to tell this difficult story that can be all too real. This is a story of family, heart-ache and forgiveness. It's a portrayal of moms. It's this line: "In the sea of grief there were islands of grace, moments in time when one can remember what was left rather than all that had been lost".
    • 4/5
      Night Road was an emotional story about friendship, family and forgiveness.The characters were strong and well developed. Lexi was my favorite. She was flawed, strong willed and determined.As a mother of an almost high school age daughter, the story really hit home. Although this is a work of fiction, the story is realistic. I felt the emotion and shed a few tears.If you are a fan of Ms. Hannah, you will love Night Road. If Ms. Hannah is a new to you author...give this one a try...she gets better with each book!
    • 4/5
      A good read that held my interest and by midway through I couldn't put it down. Night Road is an emotional story about love, friendship, and family bonds that are shattered by tragedy. It's a story that reminds us that sometimes a key to moving forward is finding forgiveness in others as well as ourselves. This is the first Kristin Hannah book I have read and the day after finishing I went to my local library to search out others by her.
    • 5/5
      Night Road is a book about a girl who has been through one foster home after another because her mother was a drug addict and did not care for her. Lexi befriends Mia who is very much like herself except that Mia has grown up in a family that is well off. Lexi is welcomed into the family and eventually she becomes the love interest of Mia's twin brother. The three of them go through high school together and just before graduation there is a terrible accident and Lexi blames herself. In the second half of the book I found myself having different emotions. I was sad for Lexi, angry with Jude and dissapointed with Zach. I was so glad to see how this story evolved and really enjoyed the book. I would not mind seeing a follow up to this book following what happens with Lexi and Zach.
    • 5/5
      This is my first Kristin Hannah book, and it won't be my last. The characters in this story touched my heart in so many ways. Kristin writes beautifully and really connects her readers with her characters. When I finally have the courage to really write and face my fears, I hope that I have even half the elegance that Kristin does with her writing.
    • 4/5
      #unreadshelfproject2020. Read this one is a day. First Kristen Hannah book I’ve read. She is a great storyteller. This novel raises so many personal questions about parenting, forgiveness, grief, and family. What a great read for book clubs. The conversation could take so many different routes. This is definitely one I couldn’t put down.
    • 5/5
      From my blogKristin Hannah blew me away, I hardly ever shed a tear but this one gripped every emotional feeling I had and begged for a reaction, which was many tears. So so sad in a beautiful way. This book is about choices, consequences, fear, parenting, friendships, grief, generations and courage, all wrapped up with Love. The parents, Jude and Miles were great parents, in Lexi's eyes the perfect parents. Lexi is the girl that becomes friends with their twins, Mia and Zach. There are so many special moments and memories. The dynamics of becoming friends, the parents embracing Lexi into their family and home and then BANG it is taken away from all of them. From the outside looking in, others probably thought they had the perfect life, I loved how KristinH made them real. Definitely a you are who your parents groomed you to be story. A background story was about Jude and her mother, I loved how this had its own story and message, then it all came to together in the end, no strings left undone. Night Road was so honest that it will make you feel like you are being emotionally ripped apart and hoping you never have to live the nightmare they did. Kristin Hannah is on my list as a favourite emotional adult fiction author. I loved this. There is so much I can say but I left many details out in order not to spoil the experience of reading for yourself.
    • 3/5
      Lexi Baill and Mia Farraday are opposites on the scale of privilege - but on the fateful first day of high school, they discover they have more in common than one would guess. Soon Lexi is absorbed by the Farraday family - hovering mom Jude, aloof dad Miles, and gorgeous popular twin Zach - in a way she's never been before. But when a terrible tragedy strikes, has everyone been too devastated by their own actions to remain the family they were before?I won this ARC on LibraryThing's Early Reviewers. I've neved read a Hannah novel before but I've become more and more intrigued by them over the years - they look hefty and interesting. Having finished my first shot at her, I'm left a little underwhelmed. It seemed like a less well-done Jodi Picoult novel. The plot was interesting and compelling, but in a predictable sort of way. I don't think anything happened in this novel that I couldn't see coming. The characters were sort of cookie-cutter, in a way that I didn't really understand. I felt like I knew them, but they didn't seem all that unique. And at times, it felt like Hannah was throwing in details that were supposed to make me believe they were unique but really just seemed like the typical idosyncracies that normal people have. My biggest problem with the characterization was how unlikable Jude was. I never - not at any point in the story - felt sympathy for her. Most of the time, I wanted to punch her in the face for being such a horrendously unaware and self-involved person. I liked the redemptive sort of happy ending, though it didn't feel very realistic to me and was maybe the part of the book that dragged the most (as it was blindingly obvious what was going to happen). For me, the most interesting part of this book was the twin relationship and I think it was grossly unexplored. One of the topics that is largely ignored in literature is grief between siblings. Here, Hannah had a wonderful chance to explore that issue and she ignored it, choosing instead to focus on the type of grief we get hit over the head with in the media - that of a parent losing a child. Perhaps this is a personal vendetta of mine but I found it very bothersome. I would have been much more interested in hearing Zach's perspective on things that Jude's. I am certainly willing to give Hannah another chance - the book was touching and compelling, despite its flaws.
    • 5/5
      I received this book through Early Reviewers. i had read books by Kristin Hannah before and have loved some and hated others so I didn' t know what to expect. I think this is a great story even though it is hard to read at times. It is heartbreaking! The beginning of the book is about Lexi meeting Zach and Mia in high school. Mia and Lexi become best friends in a time where neither of them makes friends easily. Zach is Mia's twin brother and he is attracted to Lexi but tries to stay away from her for his sister's sake. By the end of high school Zach and Lexi have fallen in love and are together with the blessing of Mia... the three are inseparable.The fairy tale life is shattered when the three go to a party, get drunk with their friends and one of them decides to drive home. Teen drinking, drinking and driving are topics everyone has been affected by to some degree. The book became hard to read but I couldn't put it down. I cried at the end and a very rarely cry in books. Some characters you love and some you hate but they are all very human. I am going to recommend this book to every woman I know!
    • 4/5
      For fourteen years, Lexie Baill moved in and out of foster homes in California as her mother came and went from her life. When her mother finally died of a drug overdose, Lexie's Aunt Eva, who lives on the tribal lands of the Port George Reservaton in Washington, takes her in. For the first time, Lexie has a permanent home. During those same fourteen years, twins Zach and Mia Farraday enjoyed a much more privileged existence in the wealthy community of Pine Island with their parents, Jude and Miles. Their stunning home on Night Road has become a social hub for Zach and his friends, a group shy Mia knows accepts her only because she is Zach's twin. But when Mia and Lexie meet on the first day of high school, they become inseparable friends. With new confidence inspired by Lexie, Mia comes into her own and begins to grow into someone other than Zach's twin sister. Over the next four years, Lexie becomes as much a part of the Farraday family as any of the other local children whom the family has known for years. Then, as graduation approaches, Pine Island—much like Camelot—is ripped asunder in one tragic moment. And nothing will ever be the same again.Kristin Hannah's Night Road is a romantic family drama that will certainly please her regular readers as well as those who enjoy Laura Moriarty and Jodi Picoult. Hannah is at her best in this narrative with her treatment of Jude's character who comes off as all too true, the every-mother we recognize as part of us. Her grief, when tragedy strikes, is very raw and very real. Likewise, Zach and Mia are well-drawn teenagers who could live in our homes and neighborhoods. The weak link in the narrative is Lexie, who comes off as somewhat manufactured, someone just a bit too perfect for her background. Even when Hannah tries to paint some flaws into Lexie's character, the result feels painfully like what it is—an attempt that doesn't quite succeed. However, the idea of Lexie is someone in whom we all want to believe, so this weakness is not a fatal flaw. Ultimately, while the narrative flow feels somewhat uneven, especially at the beginning when freshman year fast-forwards to senior year at warp speed, Night Road proves to be a cathartic, grab-the-tissues, love-conquers-all story that will more than satisfy Hannah's target audience.
    • 3/5
      It's been a long time since I've read a book that made me teary, or a book I couldn't put down. The author does an amazing job of pulling the heartstrings of the reader. I think she takes the neurotic personality of the mother, Jude, a bit too far. I wanted to slap Jude over the head a few times. Several of the other characters left a lot to be desired. Mia and Zach are twins. Zach is the leader of the two, with Mia trailing behind as the weaker of the two. Mia is portrayed as a somewhat childish teenager who is a social outcast. Her brother, on the other hand, is the handsome jock loved by all. The character of Lexi, now there was the star of this book. She's the daughter of a drug addict who spent time in jail. Lexi's mom dies and Lexi spends years in foster care. A relative is located and Lexi moves in with her (Aunt Eva). The three become inseparable, until one night when tragedy strikes. Lexi bears the brunt of a horrific accident. An accident that is the result of poor judgement from all three kids, Lexi, Zach and Mia. Zach shows nothing but weakness by allowing Lexi to take the blame. This single act ruined his character for me. No matter what happened after in the book, I saw him as weak. Yes, he did stand up and speak on Lexi's behalf, but he didn't fight for her. The tragic result of an unfortunate accident pulled a family apart. I found the end very unrealistic. This is not a bad book, it tugged at my heart. It made me cry. I just think it could have been so much better. The characters could have been so much stronger. I would have liked to see Zach and Miles stand up to Jude. The only advice I can offer, read the book yourself, and decide for yourself.
    • 4/5
      If you like tear jerkers, then this is the book for you. This is the story of a mother (Jude) whose twins are her whole world and Lexi a girl who hasn't been dealt the best cards in life. Lexi befriends Mia one of the twins, but falls in love with her brother Zach. The three do everything together and one night of bad choices leaves Mia dead and Lexi in prison. Jude cannot forgive or forget and lets this eat at her until she is no longer the mother or wife she was. When Lexi gets out of prison, everyone has to face their feelings.
    • 2/5
      not as good as the hype ending too convenient, character development not strong
    • 5/5
      I love all of Kristin Hannah's books, but I think I have found a new favorite. This is a book about a girl named Lexi who spent her childhood in and out of foster care because her mother who was a drug addict was unable to care for her. Once her mother died, it was discovered she had a great aunt, and she went to live with her. For the first time, Lexi had a true home and realized what family really was. She met a girl named Mia on the first day of school and they became instant best friends. This book is about their friendship, and Lexi falling in love with Mia's twin brother. Tragedy strikes right before graduation and everyone's life is changed. This book will make you laugh and cry, and you will have a hard time putting it down. I would highly recommend it to anyone!
    • 5/5
      I had been meaning to pick up a Hannah book for years now and had always, ALWAYS opted for another instead. Now...I am kicking myself. If all of her books are this wonderful, I am in for a real treat. No amount of a review can do this book justice, but I can say that this book will be passed around may family until it is dogeared, taped and smudged by tears. It will be talked about on facebook, the phone and around the table over coffee. Why? It could have been any one of us....
    • 4/5
      This novel is slow moving. The first part seems to take a long time as the author builds the characters and their relationships. This call comes to fruition in the second half of the novel. It's a good novel thought not a great novel. The best character is Jude, the mother who I alternatly loved, identified with, hated and then loved again.
    • 2/5
      I won my copy of "NIGHT ROAD" through LibraryThing Early Reviewers. As I started into this book, I thought I had won a book aimed at junior readers, and I actually checked back to see if that was so. It wasn't listed as a read for the junior readers, but it sure felt that way as it took its time introducing us to the characters. The main characters are: Lexi, a girl from the poor side of the tracks, and new to town; Zach and Mia Farraday, twins and soon-to-be-friends for Lexi; Jude and Miles Farraday, the parents of the twins. All of these people appear one dimensional for too long a time.The action picks up about half way through Part One when the characters are allowed to expand a little, and I felt as if the writing was moving to an adult level. The only problem now was that the whole thing was taking on the tone of a soap opera. And that is how it continued to the very end. I will say that there were choices along the way for this story to be rescued from its maudlin pitfalls, and I was hoping we'd be rescued. Too many things worked out perfectly in the end, but by then I'd given it my full attention and felt cheated.
    • 4/5
      Kristin Hannah does family relationship fiction very well. As a mother whose youngest graduated high school last June, I related to this book immediately as it address every mother's struggle between being a guiding force but letting go - trying to prevent their worst fears from happening. Some may find what happens a bit melodramatic and the ending wrapping up too neatly, but I was riveted and could not put it down. If you are a fan of Kristin's books, you will like this one.
    • 4/5
      This is a gripping, page-turning, lose some sleep kind of complex family drama about a helicopter mom, a set of gifted twins and a lonely teenager who never had anyone to truly call her own. It is very well written in a variety of character perspectives and the twelve years and 400 pages of the story pass too fast. Fans of Jodi Picoult will embrace this book wholeheartedly.
    • 4/5
      I was not prepared for where this book took me but I loved it. I could not let go of the story and kept thinking about the characters long after I was finished with the book.
    • 5/5
      I very much enjoyed this book. The writing and the character development were exceptional. While the first half of the book did at times seem slow, the second half action was crisp and spell binding. This book did appear at first to be YA in content but I quickly discovered it held my interest as a senior. I would recommend this book without hesitation and look forward to reading others by Ms. Hannah.
    • 4/5
      I had very mixed feelings about this book. The idea, the story line was good (although it has been done many times before). The whole first half of the book is setting it up and developing the characters. I think this took too long. I was getting bored and almost ready to quit. It really felt like a YA book to me, too much teen romance. I kept waiting for something to happen.... and waiting, and waiting. This took too long. Then finally, something happened. It did get better after the first half, but I feel Hannah spent way too long on some areas and not enough on others. I totally agree with Missy (Missy's Book Nook) when she reviewed this book, I did not like Jude at all! I totally disagreed with her style of parenting. I don't care what is happening with teens today or what is popular - I would have NEVER let my daughter go to a party where there was know to be drinking, end of story! Just ask her, LOL. I did feel that it had a good ending and good last 1/4 of the story but I do wish Hannah had spent more time on Lexi and what was happening with her. I also didn't really feel like I knew any of the other characters either. Like after the first half of the book, I totally forgot what Mia was like. Even though Hannah spent 1/2 the book introducing her, I just wasn't feelin it.All in all, it wasn't a bad book, I just feel it could have been better, and unfortunately it has been done better since this is a very used story line. Thank you Librarything early reviewers for giving me this book to review.This has not turned me off of Kristin Hannah, i do know that she is an excellent writer so I will keep reading!
    • 5/5
      Another beautiful book about what it means to be part of a family, to love unconditionally, and to truly forgive by Kristin Hannah! Her books always stay with me. Heartbreaking and uplifting, this one is no different. Highly recommended.
    • 5/5
      Three high school kids were getting to graduate from H.S. A few days before the three kids went to a party and got drunk. They drove home and got in a bad car accident. One of them died. Two of the kids were twins. One of them goes to prison for it. The kids and their families have to live with their loss of their friend, sister and daughter.This book is gripping and emotional. The characters are real and the reader feels every emotion from the character. I had to finish it once I started. This is the second book that I read by Kristin Hannah and it is even better.
    • 4/5
      My daughter Laurie spoke well of this book and though I had never heard of the author I decided to read it.. The author is a lawyer but apparently spends all her time writing fiction. This is a 'romance novel' but has considerable poignancy and I have to admit that, though much the characters did annoyed, i was caught up by the story of high school life followed by tragedy, with one senior killed and another sent ot prison for vehicular homicide. If high school kids read it would it affect their behavior? One would hope so. It is not too well written and while one could not predict all the twists and turns one can be confident that it will turn out as it does. And surely no one would wish otherwise.
    • 5/5
      Haunting and emotional, Night Road by Kristin Hannah is a wonderfully written book. The story was riveting, and most definitely seemed true to life. Jude seemingly has a terrific life: wonderful husband; beautiful, smart children; and a lovely home on an island. Jude has given her life for her children for eighteen years. Just before Zach and Mia are to graduate, tragedy strikes. How can Jude possibly forgive what has left her so devastated, and her family torn apart? I received this ARC from St. Martins Press for review.
    • 4/5
      When my book group won copies of Night Road I have to admit I rolled my eyes and was not looking forward to reading it. Have to confess I ended up so gripped by the story that I read it cover to cover in a single day. Author Kristin Hannah does a beautiful job making every emotion these characters experience come to life in ways so deep and real that you simply cannot walk away from the book. I'm now very much looking forward to discussing this book.
    • 4/5
      This is the first Kristin Hannah book I’ve read so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I found it to be a Lifetime Movie in print form. It had the requisite broadly painted characters – the overprotective mom (Jude), the detached father (Miles), the son who’s the most popular kid in school (Zach) and his misfit twin sister who has grown up in her brother’s shadow (Mia) and Mia’s best friend Lexi – the kid who has grown up in foster care and come out of it with a martyr complex.Jude has got to be one of the worst mothers ever. She is today’s typical helicopter mom, directing every move of her children’s lives while indulging them in the worst way. After the tragedy that is heavily foreshadowed in the first pages of the book happens, she becomes the most self-involved bitch you can imagine. I had no sympathy for her and couldn’t find any redeeming qualities about her.I found the things that happened to Lexi, the kid from the wrong side of the tracks that befriends Mia, fairly unrealistic. Being a foster parent myself, I know that a social worker does not just wake a 14 year old child up at the break of dawn and say, “Guess what – we’re flying halfway across the country so you can live with your aunt.” – unless they are a very bad social worker. She would talk to the child about it well before the moving day and at least have the child talk on the phone to the aunt before moving in with her. Anyway, I found just about everything that happened to Lexi or that she did pretty unbelievable but I just had to let that go so I could enjoy the story.I really wanted to dislike this book. Especially since I’ve recently read Every Last One by Anna Quindlen which has similar themes but a much better developed characters and better written story. The whole time I was reading Night Road, I was thinking to myself how predictable the story line was and how one-dimensional the characters were. But just like I can get sucked into a Lifetime Movie while flipping channels and two hours later wonder why I watched the whole thing, I could not put this book down. It’s definitely a guilty pleasure read.
    • 4/5
      I thought I was going to hate this book after reading the first 50 or so pages. Teenage romance is not my thing, the characters seemed unwilling or unable to communicate with each other, and I was considering skipping to the end, just to see how it all ended. As it turned out, this really isn't a teen romance after all, and the characters acquire depth as the story progresses. Kristin Hannah tackles some very big issues: teen drinking, taking responsibility for one's actions, over-involved parenting, what constitutes guilt, and much more. Lexi is an unusually mature 18-year old, who has cast off the legacy from a drug-addicted mother, become a true friend to Mia, and fallen in love with Zach, Mia's twin brother. There are a number of plot twists that I certainly didn't see coming, and by the time I had read to page 150, I couldn't put this novel down. I'm not entirely sure about the author's style, but I grew to like all of her characters, and there were moments that were laugh-inducing as well as a few very tender passages that evoked tears. In my opinion, a writer who can make me laugh AND cry has a gift. Definitely worth reading.