Kristin Hannah- "Night Road'

River Song hates to ruin books.

    Three words, depressing as hell. Night Road paints the story of a family, friendship, and young love torn apart by one bad mistake made in one singe night. It is all I am going to say because explaining it more would ruin it. "Spoilers!"(total nerd reference)

    What I will say is that it starts slow and ends fast, too fast. Yet again Kirsten Hannah doesn't end the book. Just when all the character's lives are starting to turn positive and that's it, you turn the next page expecting an epilogue and instead you get a great big middle finger disguised as the acknowledgments. The problem is that you get so wrapped up with the characters. You feel so bad for them and want that closure and are left just wondering what happened. 

Kleenex sold separately

   It would have been better if it was consistently paced. It felt like a hamburger hastily put together. It was too complex of a story to be rushed through. In the end after I set the book down all I could think of was this is one book where I  am thankful I can't relate to what everyone was going through.

  Kirstin proves that she can tell a story about realistic characters and you can easily get wrapped up in the family's troubles. the only issue is that it is too rushed and the ending suffers because of it. If you want a heart wrenching read that leaves you depressed for weeks, this is the book for you!  

Kristin Hannah- "Distant Shores"

    Here I am sitting on the couch trying to find a word that best describes this book. The one word that keeps coming up is irritating. That's it, the actual word irritating. Can I just make a simple observation and say that Kirstin Hannah never ends a book? I have read five books by her and almost every time I turn the page thinking there is more only to see the acknowledgments. Now I understand that in real life you don't have neat endings like in fairy tales and it is probably why she does this. Her stories are about real life struggles, so why wouldn't it end like a real life scenario, but to me her stories never really build up to where it can end ike that. Especially in this one.

Heeey, it's me..a book.

   In Distant Shores, we meet a couple who live in a nice little beach town in Oregon. Right off the bat they are having issues and both are wondering if any of it's enough anymore. Let me just say that the husband, Jack, is a compete jerkwad. An ex-pro football player who only cares about fame and fortune constantly thinks about himself and how he can get it all back and become young again (douche alert). All the while his wife, Elizabeth, a.k.a. Birdie, is wondering what her life has become and is lost. She used to paint and is scared to start again. Basically she has lost her passion. To be honest, I am finding it hard to summarize this book. My mind wondered waaay too much for me to even really remember the details. I find that it was just a lump. Hey I am a book, here are my issues and characters and oh I am done. There wasn't much too it in my opinion.

One thing that just bugs the crap out of me is the blurb. It tries to enhance the book, but ends up just making it dull. The whole time reading I was waiting for the details that the blurb described and it never happened. DAMN YOU BLURB! Like I said, by the end of it I had one feeling. Irritation.