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The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

Start date: November 1, 2019

Finish date: November 30, 2019

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Jan 16, 2019 Eileen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2019genrechallenge, contemporary, audiobook, cultural, historical-fiction, 2019, world-war-ii-world-war-i

Oh my goodness! This was such a rollercoaster of a book. I read this not too long after I read The Great Alone, which absolutely blew me away, so there were definitely times when I read this that I wasn't sure if I could love it as much. But the ending was absolutely perfect and pulled all the different threads together.

When I first read the description of this book and then dove into the first few chapters, it reminded me a lot of All the Light You Cannot See, in part because it jumped around p ...more

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Mar 27, 2021 Karenina rated it really liked it

I ugly cried at the end. I try not to read reviews beforehand but I saw a one star review and it made me curious. The review scrolled for pages. I don't understand why someone would spend so much time on a book they hated. People are weird. Suffice it to say this book was very sad yet entertaining and elicited a similar emotional response to the great alone though the books were nothing alike. I seem to be reading a lot of books lately centered on strong women during WWII and I'm quite alright w ...more

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