Fly Away: The Emotional Sequel to the Netflix Series Firefly Lane

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Tully had begun to plummet at her best friend's death and she hadn't been able to pull out of the dive.

The final narration from Kate’s perspective – At the end of the book, we get these glimpses of the future, with Marah in college and her meeting a friend for life. As I said with Firefly Lane, though, this is not my typical genre of reading, and I’m pretty sure it’s not the genre for me.Who knew that I would fall in love with her stories and have to read all of her contemporary novels! It became a novel about what happens when the one person who matters to you—the person who holds a whole family together—is lost. Kristin Hannah did a wonderful job of depicting the true life grit and grief that befalls a family after the death of a loved one. Before it, I had already written eighteen novels, and really, I thought I knew who I was as a novelist.

Human relationships, family and loss are all covered, with the deep connection these two women being of course the main thread that keeps the story held tightly together – and the characters of course. Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives. Tully tries to fulfill her deathbed promise to Kate--to be there for Kate’s children--but Tully knows nothing about family or motherhood or taking care of people. How many times can we go back and forth about how Tully was so unloved, that Marah was a brat, that Tully missed Kate, that she was unloved, that Marah was ungrateful, and that Kate was missed? Katherine Heigl (who also executive produces) recently told the Washington Post that she had her “fingers, toes, everything crossed” that the Netflix series gets renewed for further seasons.Additionally, it was selected as a book club pick by the both Today Show and The Book Of the Month club, which named it the best book of 2021. While Netflix is yet to confirm a second season, fans are expecting the next instalment to also rely heavily on the books’ sequel, Fly Away. I'm glad that despite your heart breaking though, you were still able to enjoy the writing style and it kept you flipping pages to the very end. Cloud, Tully's unpredictable and former addict mother, enters back into Tully's world as well, which increases the drama twofold; however, we learn why Cloud is the way she is, which will answer questions readers had in Firefly Lane.

this is a great book which at times is hard to read through the tears it evokes - much as the first book. The popular tv show stars Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke and Season Two is currently set to conclude the series on April 27, 2023. It seemed like there was a lot of repeating of the story background from "Firefly Lane" for ones who hadn't read that book before. But if you didn’t read Firefly Lane, then you didn’t get to know her, and her death is only meaningful to the characters. It’s also possible that a lot of the beginning felt repetitive because Kristin Hannah was trying to remind readers of what happened in the last book.

The book examines diverse relationships and helps you understand why people might behave as they do - when nobody else realises the pain and the trauma that they are hiding from themselves as well as others. Increasingly addicted to prescription sedatives and alcohol, Tully crashes her car and now hovers near death, attended by Kate's spirit, as the other characters gather to see what their shortsightedness has wrought. You'd think it would be easy to step back into a world you'd created, but it was surprisingly difficult to find my way back to this story and these characters. She repeatedly abandoned her daughter, Tully, as a child, but now she comes back, drawn to her daughter's side at a time when Tully is most alone.

But while we wait for confirmation of a second season, it’s only natural that fans flock to Hannah’s sequel, Fly Away, for their fix of Tully and Kate. I’m not usually a fan of this tool, but this series is based on this ideal, it is emotive and meant to pull on the heartstrings as this lifelong friendship is what it’s all about; the reader is left feeling spent and may even think about their own circumstances. Johnny realizes that he only exacerbated Marah’s depression by uprooting the family from their Seattle home.I read so many 5 star reviews of people who loved this book "Fly Away" that I couldn't wait to read it. I will say that on top of everything else going on in the book, Cloud’s story, which is tragic, is a little much.