Wartime is sad and emotional and has action it’ll make for some good scenes. It felt almost as if Hallmark decided to make a movie about sisterly bonds and romance, and just thought 1940’s France would be a good backdrop for the story.
The story was predictable in the way that it played out and how it was written, because it felt like it was hitting those required emotional triggers in a book written for women. And I think, not that there is anything wrong with this sub-genre, that the whole story just read too “chick-lit” for me. They would mention atrocities, but somehow it just didn’t resonate with me like other books on the subject have. The whole time, I was feeling like the story was saying all of these terrible thing that were happening, but not really giving them the weight they deserve. Maybe shouldn’t isn’t the right word, but I was wondering to myself why the book felt so “light” and “easy,” especially for a novel depicting the horrors of life in WWII France.
However, there was a sense the whole time, as I was flying through it, that it shouldn’t be so easy for me to read. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel and I could hardly put it down. It is compelling and exciting, and has an air of mystery woven into the rest of the story that leaves you wanting to read more and more each time you pick it up. Now this is a long book, about 570 pages, and I read it in a matter of a couple days. When I found it at a thrift store for a good price, I just had to have it and read it right away. I also love reading (or watching or learning) anything about World War II, so I was even more excited to give this book a try. Everyone seems to love it, so I have had it on my radar for a while. The Nightingale has been a Booktube favorite for as long as I have been watching videos on there. I liked it, but it certainly wasn’t the best thing I have ever read and it didn’t really meet my expectations – expectations that were heightened because of all of the hype surrounding it.
“She was crying for it all at last–for the pain and loss and fear and anger, for the war and what it had done to her and to all of them, for the knowledge of evil she could never shake, for the horror of where she’d been and what she’d done to survive.”
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