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A review by scrambledmegwithcheese
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
2.0
This was like a 2.5 star read but I’m rounding down in fairness to the Other Boleyn Girl and Intermezzo (my latest 3 stars).
The story was compelling but lacked substance for the period and the topics it managed, including sister and parent relationships, loss, and especially the Holocaust. It had a lot of promise & I just felt like it could’ve been much more than it was.
I did appreciate the “second quarter” of the book where France was in confusion shortly after the German occupation & we saw the complex and different decisionmaking of Isabelle, Viann, and Rachel. I thought the pacing of the book was managed very well though the writing often lacked substance & was in many cases cheesey and trite.
The story was compelling but lacked substance for the period and the topics it managed, including sister and parent relationships, loss, and especially the Holocaust. It had a lot of promise & I just felt like it could’ve been much more than it was.
I did appreciate the “second quarter” of the book where France was in confusion shortly after the German occupation & we saw the complex and different decisionmaking of Isabelle, Viann, and Rachel. I thought the pacing of the book was managed very well though the writing often lacked substance & was in many cases cheesey and trite.