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minha opinião em vídeo: sitelink youtube. com/watchvZuOD Home Front is a raw, gritty and stunning portrayal of a woman battling two separate wars: her crumbling marriage and well, war, Literally.

Jolene, a mother of two and a helicopter pilot in the National Guard, is called up to serve in the Iraq war, Never questioning her commitment to serve, Jolene must leave behind her husband and two young girls and fight for her country as she trained to do,

This book really got to me, At times, I found myself listening with tears running down my cheeks especially after Jolene returns home from war, The magnitude of what she faced was so difficult to read about, It hurt. And the healing took time,

This book is not an easy read, but an important one, I am so glad that I finally took the time to read it, as it has been on my TBR for years, This is not a story that I will soon forget,

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This book initially caught my attention because it was about a female soldier in Iraq, As a civilian we are actually clueless when it comes to the sacrifice and service that soldiers give to hold our freedom, I think we forget the real men and women involved in War and focus on numbers or statistics, It is easier for us to be blissfully ignorant, Kristin Hannah reveals an intimate dual experience of both the soldier and the family, She explores the journey from both sides before, during, and after war, I love that she researched this story so well, I was touched by this story and felt connected to the characters, It is definitely a good read, I tried to like this book, For the love of book club I really did, In the end I decided that there are two kinds of people in this world: those who like Nicholas Sparks and cats and those who don't, I fall into the latter category, Kristen Hannah must be in the first, Home Front by Kristin Hannah


OMGI can not put into words how incredibly amazing this story is!!!
Kleenex please "I know about hurting all the way to your bones.
And I know about giving up, It ain't the way. "



This book was a very tough read for me, I feel like I grew up at the perfect time, although arguably worst, to have this hit just a bit too hard,

This begins with a very intimate look into a broken marriage, Two people who love each other had grown apart due to different experiences with loss, Joleen lost her parents at a very

young age and found solace in the routine of the military, Michael lost his father and tried to find solace in his wife, The difference is, he felt grief, she only ever felt loss,

She comes to find that there is a very big difference between the two,

As duty requires, Joleen is sent off to war, In her absence, Michael needs to step up and take care of his children, In doing so, he remembers who he was before grief changed him so entirely, He remembers how much he loves his wife and regrets the way he treated her before they had to say goodbye,

He also takes on what his father always calls, "the case that changes everything, " He's a defense lawyer defending a man with PTSD, It hits so close to home for him and helps him to learn what his wife may need from him when she comes home one day,

This book is heart breaking, and was hard to get through, I cried through so much of it due to my own experiences with friends and family that came home from Iraq, If you told me Michael and Joleen didn't exist, I wouldn't believe you,

That's how incredibly Kristin Hannah wrote this,

Sometimes a five star book sneaks up on you, I wanted to give this four almost the entire read, and then I started writing this, It's five. It's knowing that while you may never be the person you were before, you can always become someone to be proud of now,

Paige The beautiful, peaceful beach scene on the cover of this book did not prepare me for what I was about to encounter within it's pages.
When I finished this book, I was emotionally wrung out, To say that I have a greater appreciation for what our servicemen and women go through when they are deployed and then come home again, is an understatement, I could not stop thinking about the troops who are on their way home even now and what life for them and their families will be like when they get here.


Home Front deals with the issues of PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the toll that military life takes on both those who serve, and those who are left behind to wait.
In this novel, the main character Jolene, is a wife, a mother, a friend, and a Black Hawk pilot, When she and her best friend are suddenly deployed to Iraq, their lives are turned upside down as they begin to try and prepare for the unknown, This story gives readers a raw, personal look into what soldiers and their family members go through before, during and after deployment, I could not tear myself away from this story even though at times, it was gruesome,


Readers need to be aware that this book does contain very strong language and at times, graphic descriptions of war and injuries, I felt myself feeling sick at one point and had to put the book down this story is definitely not for everyone, More conservative readers who wish to avoid profanity will not enjoy this book,

The overkill of profanity is why I only gave this bookstars, This book affected me in a very deep way, I have not cried this much in months a year, This book reminds me of how lucky I am to live where I live with my small hardships and my small sacrifices, I am so thankful for those who have given their fellow Americans so much by taking on large hardships and enduring large sacrifices, I strive to be worthy, I give this book my highest recommendation, A story about a military family, Michael and Joleen Zarkades are dealing with normal family issues marriage, children, and work, Their situation is complicated when Joleen is called to active duty and must leave her family to go into a war zone,

This story is mainly from Joleen's point of view, but some of Michael's viewpoint is included, Michael is an attorney unhappy with his wife and marriage, Joleen is a helicopter pilot in the military, She loves her husband and children, and is surprised and disappointed with the problems they are having, When Joleen is called to into service, the family life becomes even more upset,

As usual, Kristin Hannah presents an emotionally heavy story, Home Front address issues that many families deal with, like marriage and children, but also focuses on the complications presented when being a military family,

I enjoyed the story, but I didn't really connect to any of the characters, except for maybe Tami, Joleen's best friend, However, the characters were all well written and believable, The only character I despised was Betsy, Joleen's daughter, Seriously, that kid had a major attitude problem,

Some difficult topics are presented, with one main focus of the story being PTSD, Heartbreaking and inspiring. I really didn't care for Home Front, I did though like the idea behind the story,

As the novel unfolds, we meet Joleen, the product of two alcoholic parents, now a supposedly strong and independant woman who flies helicopters for the National Guard.
She is married to a successful lawyer named Michael who seems to be logging more hours at the office than at home, and is getting pulled into defending a former US Marine accused of killing his wife.
Joleen and Michael have a teenage daughter who is struggling to fit in at school, as well as a four year old girl, Joleen's family situation seems to be coming apart at the seams, when the worst thing that can happen does, Joleen gets called up for active duty in Iraq,

"Home Front" then deals with Michael struggling to keep up with the piling up domestic duties, while Joleen is trying to survive in ard world war zone.
And as stated above, I think the premise is a really good idea, but the execution horrible, For me, the novel really revolves around the character of Michael, and his supposed growth through the novel, and his growing appreciation of his wife, Unfortunately, Kristin Hannah paints Michael as such a horrible person and unlikable characters that by the time he begins showing us anything positive, I simply didn't care, The same goes for Betsy, the teenage daughter, She is so unlikable, that you really come to hate her character, and any growth shown throughout the story is underwhelming,

While I think this story needs to be told, I think it needs to be told in a much better way, with characters you can actually get behind.
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