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The Women by Kristin Hannah

235 reviews

music_girl93's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Chronic illness, Gore, Alcoholism, Body horror, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Miscarriage, War, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Cursing, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Blood, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, and Violence

weasley1912's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Wow. Just wow. That was a powerful book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, War, Addiction, Death, and Drug abuse

raisingself's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This was a difficult read. Strongly written in many ways. I do slightly feel biased against it because of Barbara’s characterization as the black woman. It teetered on tropes. A sexual, angry, and existing to prop up or save her non-black counterpart. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Drug abuse, War, Violence, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Child death, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

shelbygibbs's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, War, Death, Drug use, Medical content, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Violence, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Murder

gsmallwood63's review

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This story was fascinating.  I learned information about the Vietnam war and the women who served that I did not know. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Death, and War

Moderate: Self harm, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, and Gaslighting

imfixintoread's review

challenging dark sad fast-paced

5.0

No one does historical fiction like Kristin Hannah. Despite the length of this novel, I could not put it down. It is a truly emotional read and I will be thinking about this book for a while. It has a lot to offer, too -- history, grief, friendships, action, thrills, and a salacious romance.  I truly cannot recommend this enough. It is such an important story line and it was done so, so well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, War, Violence, Alcoholism, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

megnmoore's review

emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I'm...l'm...speechless. What an incredible novel. Kristin Hannah is a word smith like no other. She has a way of bringing you into the story and taking you captive with every word written. I'm going to be processing this book for weeks to come. Wow. Wow. Wow. So so good!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Grief, Drug use, Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Infertility, Drug abuse, Death, Medical content, Alcohol, Violence, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

teacherkmd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Alcohol, War, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, Grief, Drug use, Death, Child death, Infidelity, and Car accident

themrshedrick816's review

adventurous emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I’ve never had a book be so good, that I loved so much, yet make me so angry so many times!!! 100/10 ⭐️!!!  Will def be a hard one to beat, it’s the best I’ve read so far this year! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Cursing, Medical content, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gore, Child death, Toxic relationship, Grief, Miscarriage, Death, Police brutality, and War

bringmybooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

✨Bring✨ | Borrow | Bypass

Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, & Macmillan for the opportunity to read and review this book before it's publication date! This in no way affected my review, opinions are my own.

Review: One of my favorite authors, Kristin Hannah continues to prove that she has an unbelievable way with words. It's unbelievable how quickly she sucks you into a novel and makes you care so much about all of the characters. There are parts of her books (especially her more recent ones) that are a bit melodramatic and require a bit of suspended disbelief, but to be honest I don't know that it bothers me so much. 

While there is a bit of heightened drama on the interpersonal side, the research and care that Hannah provides to the historical aspects of her novels is top tier and so welcomed. I feel like I learned a ton about the Vietnam War that I was not aware of before (mostly the women's experience of it), and I was very grateful for this book so that I could do more of my own research. 

I did really enjoy the characters in this novel, even when they're making the most piss poor decisions - but my favorite part of the novels, and pretty much all of Hannah's novels, is the way she writes relationships between women. I do think this book is her penultimate example of that, and the relationships between the Frankie and her two best friends will stick with me for a long time.
 

Overall Rating: ★★★★★ / 4.63 
 
Rating each element of the book out of 5★ 
Characters ★★★★ 
Atmosphere ★★★★★ 
Writing ★★★★ 
Plot ★★★★ 
Intrigue ★★★★ 
Logic ★★★★ 
Enjoyment ★★★★ 
Pacing ★★★★ 
Dialogue ★★★★ 

★ did not like / ★★ it was okay / ★★★ liked it / ★★★★ really liked it / ★★★★★ loved it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Drug abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Infertility, Torture, Miscarriage, Murder, Child death, Cursing, Drug use, Pregnancy, War, Alcoholism, Cancer, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Self harm, Vomit, and Suicide attempt