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Jan 13, 2017 Skandia rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical, 2017

This was a hard book to rate. Certainly worth more than my initial three star rating I changed into four stars. The historical part was the part of novel I liked, the part in present - not that much.
Kristin Hannah has done enormous amount of research for this book and I value it highly. She must be the sole western fiction writer who has come very close to describing "the real thing" writing about Russia and WWII events and capturing the spirit of Russian people during that time. Yes, she came c ...more

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Sep 20, 2012 Caren ~ the misfit geek rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: womens-fiction, historical-fiction

The beginning was a little slow. I almost feel that the side stories of the daughters was a distraction. I would have liked it more if the book would have concentrated more on the mother-daughters relationship. There was a lot of emphasis on Meredith's and Nina's relationships with the men in their lives and at the end these same relationships were merely a side note.

I was most pulled in by Anya's story. (view spoiler) ...more

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Sep 03, 2019 Kathryn rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, read-in-2019, historical-fiction, paid, wwii

The ending raised the book's rating for me. It took nearly 2/3 of the book for the book to be interesting and even then it kept alternating between slow and boring and mildly interesting. Most of the book, I debated whether to continue reading it or marking it s a DNF. Overall, I am thinking this book should be a 2.5 and because of the last few chapter, I'll raise it to a 3 on Goodreads I loved Firefly Lane and think I'll hold off on The Nightingale until the hype wares down.

Note of 9/6: I have ...more

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Jul 03, 2016 Jillian rated it really liked it

Shelves: audio

The first part of the book was really slow (2**) but the second half of the book was interesting and redeemed the book for me.

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Oct 17, 2017 Anne rated it really liked it

Shelves: randomizer-2017, read-in-2017

It took me a while to start this book, but then I got invested in the story (and the story within the story). I had a book club edition which helped me to think about some of the specifics of the story, which was fun.

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