The Nightingale

This is hands down my favorite book I’ve ever read. I was 100% invested in the charters’ lives from page one. To say that I couldn’t put it down is an understatement. Long after I finished the book I still find myself wondering what these people I’ve grown to love are doing, as though they actually exist out in the world somewhere.

The Nightingale is a great representation of women in the war and the sacrifices and hardship that they endured. It tells the unspoken and imaginable bravery of women in WW2, through the two sisters. Read with the warning of how hooked you will be of this book and the effect it will leave with u; in tears and appreciation for the women during the war.

This was a great book.

Quite possibly the best book I have ever read. A masterpiece of literature and history.

I could not put this book down. And I cried!

This is a fabulous read. I will share with everyone, I know it will affect many as it has me. Thank-you for writing this wonderful book.

One of my favorite things is reading a line in a book that makes me pause. I read it again...let the words fill my mind silently. Then I read it aloud, and allow the words to roll off my tongue. Then again; faster, slower, in a new rhythm. That’s when I know I have found literature gold. The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah, is one such book of gold. ✨ Initially, I read this novel because I heard it was comparable to All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. (Which I LOVE) While it did have similarities with the theme of German Occupied France during WWll it had its own very unique story line to tell... This book was a masterpiece. Kristin Hannah delivered a novel with rich language, imagery, and complex multidimensional characters. I couldn’t get enough of this story and it stuck with me long after I had finished reading. I highly recommend this story to anyone who enjoys the beauty of literature. It’s a story of love, hope, and history. It reminds you of the tragedy that so many people endured during WWll, as well as the endurance of the human spirit and what can develop when people refuse to give in to circumstances deemed bigger than themselves. I wish I could grant it more than five stars. This book is historical fiction at its best. Check out my Instagram book review page for awesome book reflections: @me.myshelf.and.i

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“In love, we find out who we want to be; in war we found out who we are.” This is a story of Occupied France in the time of WW2. It is focused on the Rossingol sisters: Vianne and Isabelle, abandoned before the war by their father they grew up in orphanges and schools until one marries and the other is dismissed from every school she is in. Seemingly total opposites, they end up crossing paths and affecting each other’s lives in the way only war can. One becomes a leader in the resistance movement. The other loses her husband to a POW camp and quietly changes lives in her own small town. Vianne explains that for her, it was a “shadow war” and those left behind did what they could to survive while women like Isabelle/Juliette were more active and paid the ultimate price. “Men tell stories. Women get on with it” she explains to her youngest, himself older and a doctor, asking about the aunt he barely knew existed. They had no idea what they accomplished. As a reviewer, I was literally glued to this depressingly hopeful story of survival at any cost during the horrors of terrible atrocities. As Americans, we heard in school of the holocaust that Germany waged on the world. However, we didn’t hear of those left behind-much. I've stood in Sachsenhausen Camp in Germany. I’ve seen pictures and heard stories here in Upstate NY where the only refugee Jews were taken in not 60 miles from here. I am old enough to have college roommates request another room because of my German heritage. Occupied France wasn’t part of what I knew about. Thanks to Kristin Hannah, I now have a better view. This book will make you cry, will give you strange unsettled dreams, and affect you in unusual ways. I highly recommend it and I will eagerly wait for the movie reportedly in the works. 5/5 [disclaimer: I received this book in a GoodReads giveaway and voluntarily chose to review it]

I’ve never felt so submerged in a novel and I have certainly never cried while reading and I did in this one. This book should be a part of schools curriculum.