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Yeah, I didn't love it. So sue me.
I mean, I liked it... but I think I need to put a moratorium on Holocaust/ Europe WWII books for a while. (It probably won't happen, because the market is flooded with them - and some really good stories to boot.
But this just bothered me.
Maybe Kristin Hannah is right: World War II was a war where the men were physically weak, and easily beguiled because a woman was pretty. And certainly women have been under-represented in war literature. (Although, my favorite ...more
I mean, I liked it... but I think I need to put a moratorium on Holocaust/ Europe WWII books for a while. (It probably won't happen, because the market is flooded with them - and some really good stories to boot.
But this just bothered me.
Maybe Kristin Hannah is right: World War II was a war where the men were physically weak, and easily beguiled because a woman was pretty. And certainly women have been under-represented in war literature. (Although, my favorite ...more
How fragile life was, how fragile they were.
Love.
It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.
This is not a love story, but it is about love, and about the women who love.
There! Is that sappy enough for you? Hahaha... but I'm also being serious.
When I started this book, I was confident I was not going to like it. All my friends gave it five stars, but I knew it was going to be just like All the Light We Cannot See, a book I hated that ev ...more
The book has two female protagonists (sisters), and it's set during the time of the Nazi occupation of France. I liked the way the author kept it mysterious about who the narrator actually is, throughout the book (you only find out at the very end). I like the way they talk about how murky and complicated people's moral choices may become during times of war. I read this some months ago, and I am still thinking about the characters in this book.
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There are so many WWII novels out there, but this one stands out for me. Following two sisters in France who take very different paths, I was pulled into the story from the very beginning and didn't want to leave these characters behind when it was finished.
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World War II chick lit. Hm. A previously unknown genre for me. This was just good enough to keep me interested, and I finished it, so not a total loss. The characters are a bit stereotypical - Good Sister (family oriented, domestic, a little fearful) and Bad Ass Sister (beautiful, escape artist, fighter of Nazis, climber of mountains). "Good Nazi" (he's a Nazi, but he's nice to Good Sister) and Bad Nazi (you know the type). Nice but disposable side characters. Brave Resistance Fighter Man who lo
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Feb 01, 2019
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I wasn't quite sure what to expect from The Nightingale but I wound up really loving the characters and the way the story wove everybody together. There are fleeting glimpses of love but this is not a historical romance novel; the focus is instead on the strength of the women left behind in a little French town seized by the Nazis.
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Speechless. Beautiful story. Heartbreaking. Enlightening.
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