Review: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Authors and publishers are not able to post replies in the review topics.
- Betty56
- Posts: 11
- Joined: 27 Nov 2014, 21:48
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-betty56.html
Review: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
In “The Nightingale” the sisters Viann and Isabelle live in the “Free Zone” in France. But this Free Zone soon becomes Nazi-occupied. It is difficult to read of the burdens the French people had to deal with each day for several years. People did what they had to do to survive. Some people were brave enough and humane enough to make attempts to save the Jews. Others, in self-survival mode, looked the other way. Others sadly joined the Nazis in their atrocities. The story here is very real. It reminded me of the book “A Woman in Berlin” about what the women had to do to survive, and they guilt and self-loathing they felt afterwards. One statement in “The Nightingale’ really hit me – “Men tell stories…Women get on with it…We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.”
The characters are very human with their strengths and their weaknesses. I loved them, I hated them, I feared for them, I rejoiced with them. Now the book is over but the characters live on in my mind.
- baileymm1978
- Posts: 5
- Joined: 20 Apr 2015, 18:15
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- ashley_claire
- Posts: 410
- Joined: 03 Mar 2015, 03:13
- Favorite Book: The Prince of Tides
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 158
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-ashley-claire.html
- Latest Review: One Way or Another by Mary J. Williams
- bookowlie
- Special Discussion Leader
- Posts: 9071
- Joined: 25 Oct 2014, 09:52
- Favorite Book: The Lost Continent
- Currently Reading: The Night She Went Missing
- Bookshelf Size: 442
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-bookowlie.html
- Latest Review: To Paint A Murder by E. J. Gandolfo
- cndreli35
- Posts: 5
- Joined: 02 May 2015, 16:05
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- TammyS
- Posts: 2
- Joined: 07 May 2015, 13:18
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- Rizbi
- Posts: 80
- Joined: 25 Jun 2015, 07:54
- Currently Reading: The Girl in the Spider's Web
- Bookshelf Size: 68
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-rizbi.html
- Latest Review: "Patrick's Journey" by Roy T Humphreys
- Reading Device: B00JG8GOWU
- anamshaikh
- Posts: 5
- Joined: 14 May 2016, 03:05
- Bookshelf Size: 3
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-anamshaikh.html
One such book has been The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah which questions humanity, kindness, friendship and family ties. It teaches that actual kindness and friendship is helping a person because they are human, not because they belong to the same nationality as you. It also reiterates the age old belief that friendship aside, nothing comes in the way of family.
It is a tale of love and belonging at the time of war, the war here being the Second World War. It is a tale which answers the question ‘How far will you go and how much will you sacrifice for your country?’ It is a tale which spans the past and the present, love and hate, Germans and French, set in France and America. It is a tale about the Rossignols(French for Nightingales) and how their belief in a free France leads them to aid the French, save Jews from concentration camps, spy on the Germans, help the French, American and Canadian RAF pilots to cross the difficult and treacherous Pyrenees, lie to their loved ones, and even commit murder.
The whole book can be summed up in the first line of the book itself
‘In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we really are’
This book will be the best book you’ll ever read. Keep a few tissues handy.
- Kourtney Bradley
- Posts: 2137
- Joined: 10 Oct 2015, 21:45
- Favorite Book: Bridges of Madison County
- Currently Reading: Layla
- Bookshelf Size: 412
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-kourtney-bradley.html
- Latest Review: Dante's Demons by K.L. Barstow
- Reading Device: 1400697484
–Vera Nazarian
- mmandy38
- Posts: 480
- Joined: 30 May 2014, 00:04
- Currently Reading: The Zookeeper's Wife
- Bookshelf Size: 132
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-mmandy38.html
- Latest Review: Natural Relief for Anxiety and Stress by Gustavo Kinrys, MD
- Reading Device: B00HCNHDN0
- Lyndsey Herzog
- Posts: 5
- Joined: 15 Dec 2020, 22:35
- Currently Reading: winter gardens
- Bookshelf Size: 10