The Great Alone

MMM like I loved all the Alaskan survivalist details, and the escalating tension with Lena's PTSD-afflicted, violent father was really well-rendered.

But around the back third it got a little like...too dramatic in a way that didn't quite match the beginning of the story?

like I get that she'd been telling us and telling us how dangerous Alaska is, so the fall on the rocks makes sense, but then everything with the murder and fake identities and then Lena's dumb confession and subsequent immediate freedom from consequences was like.........a little too soap operatic for the more grounded rest of the book?And a little preachy about women's rights/domestic violence etc but like, sure, I'm in favor of that. Of women's rights I mean. Not domestic violence. You know what I mean.

But like still I couldn't put it down and cried a bunch, so.