A review by w_r
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

3.0

I didn't NOT like this book, but I didn't love it. It's the kind of book that is extremely popular, but there are better versions of it out there (All The Light We Cannot See). At times it felt a bit exploitative and melodramatic - and tbh it's mildly offensive that this [very loosely inspired] retelling of the real heroism Andrée De Jongh showed uses WWII as the framework for a love story. It's not enough to be a war hero and a concentration camp survivor as a woman - you must also be beautiful, and loved by a man, for your life to have value. 

The familial relationships got me the most, and although the narrator reveal was predictable, it still got me and I cried real tears through the last 50 pages (Bébé slayed me twice).