ellescuriosity 's review for:

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

Strong character development: Yes

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this book started out a bit slow but in hindsight it was setting up the scene and characters before the war. I really appreciated seeing the characters develop bc at the beginning of the book I was really struggling reading about our main characters; but the events in the book cause them to change and I thought that was pretty realistic. 

overall this read was really sad, tense and reflective and was a constant reminder that our world today isn’t much different than what it was in the 40s 😕

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Rape, Antisemitism, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment