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A review by anaisniz
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
⚔️ Plot: 7.0 /10
🥐 Setting: 7.0 /10
🕊️ Characters: 7.0 /10
✍ Writing (style): Good.
📚 Would I recommend it? Yes. If you like slow war books.
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
Those last one hundred pages, really saved this book from 3 stars.
❤️ Up's:
1) The two sister's perspectives
2) The devolvement of the protagonists
3) Touching story
4) Good pace
- 1: Vianne and Isabelle are very different and it was very interesting reading their different perspectives, struggles and their own way of surviving.
- 2: I though I would like Isabelle more, but I was so surprised by Vianne, I loved her devolvement. Both of them have a very good devolvement and they also mature in their own way. Vianne grew up more tho, as she talks more about her past with Isabelle and how wrong she was about her. Isabelle doesn't have these scenes so much, of looking back and seeing the harm she's done, she just says it in one sentence of dialogue.
- 3: Well, it's a book about war, of course it's going to be sentimental. But for real, the last part of the book was very touching and the end made me cry. Those last one hundred pages accelerated the story in such a good way that I couldn't put the book down. It was also when the biggest scenes happened.
- 4: Aside from the slow middle part of the book, it had a good pace, nothing was rushed. I really liked the suddenly jumps to the present.
💔 Down's:
1) The portrait of the relationship between the sisters was weak
2) Isabelle's rebelliousness seemed very exaggerated
3) Slow
4) Some small holes
- 1: The main reason why I picked this book was because I thought it would be about two sisters going through the war together, even though, they are not very close to one another.
The premise is there, but in a different way. Vianne and Isabelle are mostly far from one another in the story. If the book is going to focus on sisterhood, it could have emphasized the sister's relationship better instead of making them separated for most of the time.
I wanted this so badly, but there wasn't enough grow of the of the sister's relationship. They did have some very emotional moments, however.
I don't think this happen because the romance was in the way or something like that, it was purely a writer's choice.
- 2: At the beginning Isabelle is portrait as a rebel teen and this role felt very overdone and annoying. It also seemed unrealistic how Isabelle was aware of the danger around her and always continued to do shit, just because of her rebellious personality. I say it seems forced just to create this strong contrast between the sisters.
- 3: I put this book down for months when I was halfway through it, every time I picked it up, it seemed like nothing big happened in the story and everything was slow. But well, I guess it makes sense, because it's a war book (first time reading this genre). I just wished those middle pages could have done something different. I would prefer to see Vianne and Isabelle together and them having a sisterly relationship and bounding to one another.
- 4: There's some small holes, like, I always remember Vianne having no money, but she somehow always has food and can even make big dinners.
💜 Final thoughts:
I'm very weak when it comes to books about sisters. so yeah, this book hits close to home for me. I'm also not an expert of the 2nd war and I don't know much about France as a place, so idk how real the book was.
🥐 Setting: 7.0 /10
🕊️ Characters: 7.0 /10
✍ Writing (style): Good.
📚 Would I recommend it? Yes. If you like slow war books.
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
Those last one hundred pages, really saved this book from 3 stars.
❤️ Up's:
1) The two sister's perspectives
2) The devolvement of the protagonists
3) Touching story
4) Good pace
- 1: Vianne and Isabelle are very different and it was very interesting reading their different perspectives, struggles and their own way of surviving.
- 2: I though I would like Isabelle more, but I was so surprised by Vianne, I loved her devolvement. Both of them have a very good devolvement and they also mature in their own way. Vianne grew up more tho, as she talks more about her past with Isabelle and how wrong she was about her. Isabelle doesn't have these scenes so much, of looking back and seeing the harm she's done, she just says it in one sentence of dialogue.
- 3: Well, it's a book about war, of course it's going to be sentimental. But for real, the last part of the book was very touching and the end made me cry. Those last one hundred pages accelerated the story in such a good way that I couldn't put the book down. It was also when the biggest scenes happened.
- 4: Aside from the slow middle part of the book, it had a good pace, nothing was rushed. I really liked the suddenly jumps to the present.
💔 Down's:
1) The portrait of the relationship between the sisters was weak
2) Isabelle's rebelliousness seemed very exaggerated
3) Slow
4) Some small holes
- 1: The main reason why I picked this book was because I thought it would be about two sisters going through the war together, even though, they are not very close to one another.
The premise is there, but in a different way. Vianne and Isabelle are mostly far from one another in the story. If the book is going to focus on sisterhood, it could have emphasized the sister's relationship better instead of making them separated for most of the time.
I wanted this so badly, but there wasn't enough grow of the of the sister's relationship. They did have some very emotional moments, however.
I don't think this happen because the romance was in the way or something like that, it was purely a writer's choice.
- 2: At the beginning Isabelle is portrait as a rebel teen and this role felt very overdone and annoying. It also seemed unrealistic how Isabelle was aware of the danger around her and always continued to do shit, just because of her rebellious personality. I say it seems forced just to create this strong contrast between the sisters.
- 3: I put this book down for months when I was halfway through it, every time I picked it up, it seemed like nothing big happened in the story and everything was slow. But well, I guess it makes sense, because it's a war book (first time reading this genre). I just wished those middle pages could have done something different. I would prefer to see Vianne and Isabelle together and them having a sisterly relationship and bounding to one another.
- 4: There's some small holes, like, I always remember Vianne having no money, but she somehow always has food and can even make big dinners.
💜 Final thoughts:
I'm very weak when it comes to books about sisters. so yeah, this book hits close to home for me. I'm also not an expert of the 2nd war and I don't know much about France as a place, so idk how real the book was.