Reviews tagging 'War'

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

629 reviews

giamarie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Murder, Pregnancy, and War

goodyeargoodbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

smcrain's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

First Kristin Hannah book I ever read, was so good. Emotionally gripping. I was so invested throughout.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Antisemitism, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Torture, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

tdawgg07's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Racism, Antisemitism, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Pregnancy, and War

Minor: Cancer, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Blood, and Vomit

karlisimp's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Another amazing historical novel from Kristin Hannah. This one was dark but so so beautiful and the way it ended had me in happy & sad tears. It’s a beautiful story about women in war and the quietness of their rebellion. 
Edited to add: this is a very heavy book but I think worth it in the end, even though it could’ve been a few chapters longer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Rape, Torture, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and War

yinzer_barbie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Antisemitism, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, and Deportation

nscheuermann's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

This book was well worth the read. It hit me in the feels. It was a little slow and I have to convince myself to stick with it. I thought several times throughout the book that I really identified with Vianne and I kind of hated myself for it. But maybe some of my discomfort from reading it wasn't about the slowness per say but more because of how much I identified with Vianne and how she handled such atrocities. Those atrocities made me so uncomfortable that I had to force myself to keep reading and not bury my head and pretend like it's clearly all fiction like I really wanted to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

sarahannmac21's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

OUCH!!!! You know when you’re little and your mom tells you not to touch the stove because it’s hot? And you do it anyway because you just want to know? And then it burns you and hurts like the devil? Yeah……. Reading this book was like that. All my friends told me how much it was going to break my heart and I was like ok sign me up. 

Seriously though… what a good story. Listened to it on audio and even my husband enjoyed it- he’s not a reader. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, War, and Deportation

calbright14's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Antisemitism, Murder, and War

Absolutely life changing

gimmer05's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and War

Moderate: Rape