Another quick read…another good cry…another sigh that all is well – at least in the world of fiction. And then on a hot summers night, one bad decision is made. The ending, as always with Hannah, is happily-ever-after. Its a dangerous, explosive season of drinking, driving, parties, and kids who want to let loose. In the years that follow, each must face the consequences of that single night and find a way to forgetor the courage to forgive. In the blink of an eye, the Farraday family will be torn apart and Lexi will lose everything. Do not expect grand declarations of justice, mercy, or fortitude. And then on a hot summer's night, one bad decision is made. Hannah nudges MADD with one of her plot twists, and possibly the prison system with another, but Hannah is no Grisham. One teenager dies all others are beyond consolation, especially Jude. The plot turns with a fatal car accident after a drinking party, weeks before high school graduation. Of course, Lexi becomes best friends with Mia and Zach’s first love. On a hot summer’s night her worst fears come true. Jude, the mother who can’t quite connect to her own mother, welcomes Lexi – the poor foster girl whose drug addict mother died in jail – as friends to her twins, Mia and Zachary. Nothing feels safe anymore every time her kids leave the house, she worries about them. In Night Road, best-selling author and book club favorite Kristin Hannah gives us a tale of two families, closely linked though opposite in many ways, suddenly torn apart by one heartbreaking mistake.
I kept reading “Night Road,” knowing the perfect family with the overprotective mother and staid doctor father, was literally going to hit a bump in the road. Will I ever find the courage to tell him what really happened the night.
There were a lot of parts that I just completely skimmed over because it was just words on paper that didn’t do anything for the story other than drag it on a little bit longer and was a feeble attempt to add filler to an otherwise predictable storyline.Kristin Hannah makes me cry – no matter that her characters are stereotyped her plots are overworked her messages trite. dealing with their mothers who view him as a never-ending source of income. If it weren’t for Izzy’s story, it would have been a 2. With that said, I give it 3 out of 5 stars. Then, of course, there is a big decision to be made at the end of the book.The only original and interesting part of this book was the small town man’s daughter, Izzy, whose story would have been a much better book. Then the high-powered husband cheats, the wife moves to her small town home and, of course, there is a troubled man there that reawakens things in her that she long ago forgotten. It’s about a woman who lives in a fancy house with her high-powered husband and daughter, where they live a comfortable but emotionally distant life. The story is pretty standard, which is disappointing because the author is usually more original. If you’re looking for a middle-of-the-road read that won’t take much thought, time or effort, then On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah is the book for you.
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