Nightingale Review!

While “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah is an expressional homage of the extraordinary courage and endurance of french women during world war 2. Here are my reasons why I liked (and didn’t) this book in no particular order.

1. Out of all the historical fictions, specially based in world war 2 time, The Nightingale expresses the perspective of women and how they resisted nazis in occupied france. There’s girl power here.

2. The narrative alternates between two sisters, who fought the war in their own unique ways. It's a feast for people who love multiple perspectives.

3. I personally felt the opening chapters to be brilliant and as exactly I would love to read with my slow paced reading, but the opening chapters which lay the groundwork for vianne and Isabelle's personalities and their family dynamics could feel relatively slow.

4. As expected with any novel based on war premise, this book too gets sad and we don’t see anything good happening for a long time before there is a flicker of hope at the end.

5. Women doing courageous things like leading groups of allied pilots out of france over the pyrenees mountains is my favourite event of all the events of this book. Like i mentioned, Girl power here.

6. Where a nazi officer displays compassion and concern towards vianne and her family in the beginning is a perfect example of multi dimensional character depiction in complicated situations.

7. The author did a good job in depicting the horrors of war without getting too graphic about it. I felt people who enjoyed Zusak's Book Thief will appreciate this book as well. I am people.

Now tell me about the books you've read that are based on war times and give us insights and take us back into that timeline.