![]() ![]() When he encounters Rose, a fortune-teller and cotton-candy maker with a traveling carnival, he's met his true match. After numerous trials that end in near homelessness, Flossie's father finally puts the divorce behind him. She loses her superficial and status-conscious friends, but makes friends with Susan, whose background is more like hers. Her life changes drastically when she starts going to school looking unkempt and smelling of her father's greasy-spoon café. When Flossie's mom and stepdad move to Sydney for six months, Flossie convinces her mother to let her stay with her loving but inept father in London. Overweight, depressed, and financially hard up, he is his own worst enemy. Flossie's dad, however, is close to 40 and hasn't gotten it together. "Gr 4-7-Flossie's mom is remarried and has a prosperous life with her husband and baby. ![]()
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While he's attracted to Jessica Trent, he has no idea why - she's too smart, sharp, and domineering for his tastes, which tend towards the voluptuous, vapid, and paid for. ![]() ![]() Big, dark, and mean, he's made a name for himself by being the Biggest, Darkest, Meanest person around. The Dude: Sebastian Leslie Guy de Ath Ballister, Marquess of Dain. The Rub: Every voice in her head tells her that the Marquess of Dain is a nasty, nasty boy - but the voice coming from elsewhere on her person thinks he's nasty in all the right ways. Jessica figures it's up to her to fish her brother out. While she's managed to maintain a nice income for herself through the acquisition and sale of antiques, her so-stupid-he-rides-the-short-bus brother is beggaring the rest of the family funds by hanging out with the disreputable Marquess of Dain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Leni went from naive teen to self-sufficient young woman. Ernt's slow twist from troubled, psychologically damaged man to a radical monster. The character growth and development knocked it out of the park for me. ![]() So as far as my specific thoughts on The Great Alone. I think this one is bound to become a classic. I don't think this book follows the Jodi Picoult curve (though it's worth mentioning that The Nightingale did not either). Granted, I know The Great Alone is not super new, per se, but I was on a waiting list for this ebook for about two months with the local library system recently. For me, Kristin Hannah just gets sharper and sharper with each new book. A few notable faves were Magic Hour and The Nightingale. I've read several Kristin Hannah books and for the most part, they run the same typical roads as Jodi Picoult's books. What began as an easy chick-book-type read evolved into something much more magnetic. ![]() I read a lot, and there was something about these characters that dragged me in. I finished this book yesterday and I have to say, I haven't been this invested in a book and its characters for a while now. ![]() |