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The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

4.57 AVERAGE

rebecalimero's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

lnreads12's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring sad tense 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

amandaelvebakk's review against another edition

5.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

jacs's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

srothstein's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional medium-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: Yes

lumos1998's review against another edition

5.0

“Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.”

es_blackwood's review against another edition

2.5

emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

While the ending did wrap a lot up for me, I kind of saw it coming from like 200 pages away. I don’t know why I found so much of the writing style really frustrating, but I felt like every emotional moment was never dwelled upon. It would be like one gut wrenching event, and then the writing would move on immediately. I also think it was trying to cover too much ground. Every event happened so quickly that they all just didn’t feel very important and weren’t very well described. I found myself rereading whole passages and pages because there would be very little explanation of how a character physically arrived at a destination. I also found Isabelle and Vianne pretty one dimensional for about 99% of the book: one is rebellious and rash, the other is a mom. genuinely so little deviation from that. Also writing a book that takes place almost entirely in French, but writing in english so occasionally there is a “oui” or “maman” thrown in there just takes me out of the setting rather than cements it idk that always feels like such an immature writing choice to me.