The romantic genre has no middle ground. You can find authors like Danielle Steel o Nora robertsable to write at a semester book rate or run into an author like Kristin hannah which has its publication cadence in a longer pause. Between the frenzy of the former and Hannah's repose, it will surely be healthier for the mind to pull for the latter. Unless the idea is to end up like a Quixote of our time, taken by the stories of knights and maidens of the XNUMXst century.
The point is that the sediment contributes more things. Because pausing or actively searching for new stories gives a broader perspective of the story to be told and even a deeper approach to the profiles of those who are going to be protagonists.
At least it has to be like that for normal writers, very capable of writing exciting plots but who only have two hands (blacks, black writers? Who said that? I will never even point out that Danielle Steel or other prolific storytellers pull ghost writers ...)
The awards and the best-selling lists confirm Kristin Hannah as one of the most valued authors by critics and readers. So the recognition comes to value that greater detail of the literature resting on a slow fire ...
Kristin Hannah's Top 3 Recommended Novels
Fly away
Taking flight again is easier when one lets go of the burden of gravity that is going to hold us to the earth and to that other intangible thing that they will say. If flying was easy before, it doesn't have to be complicated later, when you gain experience and hours at the controls...
The long-awaited sequel to Dance with the Fireflies, now a hit Netflix series, reminds us that as long as there is life, there is hope... and as long as there is love, there is forgiveness.
Tully Hart has always been a force of nature, a woman driven by big dreams and memories of her painful past. She believed that she could overcome everything. But she now she has hit rock bottom. Kate Ryan has been best friends with her for over thirty years. Together they have laughed, danced, lived and cried. Kate has always been her support and now she doesn't know how she is going to survive.
She wants to honor the promise she made to Kate to take care of her family, but it's a purpose she doesn't feel capable of fulfilling. Kate's daughter Marah finds herself consumed with guilt and increasingly isolated. And Cloud, Tully's troubled mother, has chosen just this moment to reappear. And, after all, what does the ambitious and independent Tully know about being part of a family?
A call in the middle of the night will unite these three women who have lost their way and who will need each other – and perhaps a Miracle too – to transform their lives. An exciting and heartbreaking story about friendship, love, motherhood, loss and new beginnings.
The fireflies dance
Kristin Hannah's titles almost always evoke close but forgotten natural aspects. Those strange fireflies once lit up roads and paths at night. Today it is difficult to see them almost anywhere. The next thing is exotic, brotherhood, shared blood as something that can fulfill as much as it is capable of awakening ominous misgivings.
In the hot summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has decided to accept her role as zero left in the social life of her institute. Until, to her surprise, "the coolest girl in the world" moves across her street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all: beauty, intelligence, and ambition.
They couldn't be more different. Kate, destined to go unnoticed, with a loving family that always embarrasses her, and Tully, wrapped in glamor and mystery, yet possessed of a secret that is destroying her. Against all odds, they become inseparable and make a pact to be best friends forever.
For 30 years they will help each other to stay afloat dodging the storms that threaten their relationship: jealousy, anger, pain, resentment ... And they will believe that they have survived everything until a betrayal separates them ... and put their courage and friendship to the test harder.
The four winds
The world is not so big and the old butterfly flapping can awaken a current that ends up reaching the other side of the world thanks to the wind on duty. That is what it is about, discovering that to port, starboard, bow or stern, we are all moved by the same passions and we submit to the same anxieties of harsh times that always come ...
Texas, 1921. The Great War is over and America seems to enter a new era of optimism and abundance. But for Elsa, considered too old to marry at a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future is uncertain. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation ruined, she is left with only one respectable option: marry a man she hardly knows.
In 1934, the world has changed. Millions of people have been left out of work and farmers are struggling to hold on to their land. Crops fail due to drought, water sources dry up and dust threatens to bury everything. Every day on the Martinelli farm is a desperate battle for survival. And, like so many others, Elsa is forced to make an agonizing decision: fight for the land she loves or head west to California in search of a better life for her family.
Other recommended books by Kristin Hannah…
The Nightingale
Harper Lee already knew that it was an outrage to kill a nightingale. It was the 30s and from that dreadful image of silencing the most beautiful song in the animal world, a choral novel was opened to us in characters and emotions. Without being a replica or a sequel, this novel approaches that world of contrasts of a twentieth century made that melancholic yesterday of our parents and grandparents.
France, 1939. In the quiet town of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, who must march to the front. She doesn't believe the Nazis are going to invade France, but they do, with battalions of soldiers marching through the streets, with caravans of trucks and tanks, with planes filling the skies and dropping bombs on the innocent. When a German captain seizes Vianne's house, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or risk losing everything. Without food or money or hope, Vianne is forced to make increasingly difficult decisions to survive.
Vianne's sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old who seeks a purpose for her life with all the reckless passion of youth. As thousands of Parisians flee the city in the face of the imminent arrival of the Germans, Isabelle meets Gaëton, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France. Isabelle falls completely in love but, after feeling betrayed, decides to join the Resistance. Never stopping to look back, Isabelle will risk her life over and over again to save others.
Winter Garden
There is no such thing as torpor or hibernation for the human heart. Despite the fact that nature languishes and some animals retire to cope with the rigors of winter, the human being follows that dictation of the heart that is never cold, always dedicated to the cause of willingly seeking the heat where it beats rapt.
A great love story set in World War II by Kristin Hannah, the author of The Nightingale. A besieged city. A mother. Two daughters. And a secret that will change their lives forever.
USSR, 1941. Leningrad is a besieged city, cut off from any possibility of help by the war and the snow that buries the buildings with its whiteness. But in Leningrad there are also women in despair, capable of anything to save themselves and their children from a tragic end.
United States, 2000. The loss and the years have taken their toll on Anya Whitson. She has finally managed to contact her daughters, Nina and Meredith. And with a hesitant and uncertain voice, she begins to weave the story of a beautiful young Russian woman who lived in Leningrad long ago...
In a crusade in search of the hidden truth behind the story, the two sisters will face a secret that will shake the foundations of their family and forever change the image of who they thought they were.
