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A mediocre review will hardly make a difference at this point, but I feel compelled to write it nonetheless.

"The Nightingale" is very readable, and I give the author credit for choosing to write about a fascinating (if horrifying) time in recent history; the combination of those two ingredients make the book a real page-turner. But that's where the credit ends. The characters are cardboard, the plot is predictable, and the horror of the Nazi occupation of France (as well as French anti-Semitism) are all so trivialized as to verge on disgusting. In fact, the book should be called "chick lit goes to Nazi-occupied France." I may be pilloried for calling anything chick lit -- my wife hates the term, and understandably so; however, even she agreed that the book is chick lit.


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The Nightingale A Novel Kristin Hannah Books Reviews

This isn't just chick lit or young adult, it's BAD chick lit and young adult. I've read extensively about this era, nonfiction and also fiction, some great (All the Light We Cannot See, Winds of War & War and Remembrance) and some not so great but perfectly passable. I'm no book snob. Not so far into this I was in disbelief that it was a bestseller and written by an educated person. Every single character is a ridiculous cliche (the brooding but hunky Nazi, the mysterious French underground smuggler woman with a cigarette holder, the impetuous and impossibly beautiful heroine, on and on). I had to come to these one star reviews to feel sane and not alone.
I very much enjoyed Kristin Hannah character development and story. This book is written better than many books about WWII. The reader experiences the struggles and fear of those living in a Nazi occupied country. I am very, very troubled however. When I read about Isabelle organizing an escape route for airmen whose planes were shot down in France and then escorting them safely to Spain with the assistance of reluctant Basque, I had to stop because I clearly remembered reading this before. I vaguely also remember a black white movie or documentary about this. I searched and found the once read story of the Belgium, Andree de Jongh who actually did what the fictional character Isabelle did in the novel. Much, much, much of the book parallels de Jongh's true story - the description of the heroine; the number of people (118 by de Jongh and 117 by Isabelle) escorted through this escape route this escape route having a code name (Nightingale in the book and Comet in real life); the description of the airmen's instructions on the train and staying behind the heroine when they walked in German occupied cities; de Jongh's/Isabelle father executed by firing squad; the reaction of the airmen to this female who was going to be the one who to lead them out of France; de Jongh's/Isabelle's invisibility to the Germans because she was "just" a woman collaborating with the British to fund the escape of airmen from France; de Jongh's/Isabelle's capture in the Pyrenees by the Nazi's then interrogation and Nazi's disbelief and rejection of the idea that a woman was capable of doing this; and de Jongh's/Isabelle's imprisonment in Ravensbruck women's concentration camp. Why am I troubled? I searched the book, several interviews with the author and Ms. Hannah website and there was no mention of specific name "Andree de Jongh." Hannah acknowledged on her website that her search led her to "a story of a young Belgian woman who created an escape route out of Nazi occupied France." I strongly believe that the author should have dedicated, credited or acknowledge the name of Andree de Jongh in the book where it was easily visible to the reader. de Jongh is as invisible to the author as she was to the Germans and in a book that celebrated the bravery of women during war. Was Vianne's character based on a brave woman who also deserved bold recognition? This makes me sad.
Almost 36,000 reviews and 86 percent are five stars. What's THAT about, I thought. So I read the book, and now I know what the raves are all about. This book is one of the best, if not the best book I have ever read. Hannah writes like an angel. The book isn't a fast read, at least not for me, because I would go back and reread a sentence just to enjoy the mastery with which it was written. Hannah's style doesn't try to be high literature, but the result is. She writes beautiful scenery and background, but not so much as many authors do. Her characters, well, I felt like I knew them, like old friends, not without flaws, but perfectly developed.
So I add my five-star review to the others. Read this book. It will take you away from whatever you're doing. This was my first book from Kristin Hannah. It won't be my last
A mediocre review will hardly make a difference at this point, but I feel compelled to write it nonetheless.

"The Nightingale" is very readable, and I give the author credit for choosing to write about a fascinating (if horrifying) time in recent history; the combination of those two ingredients make the book a real page-turner. But that's where the credit ends. The characters are cardboard, the plot is predictable, and the horror of the Nazi occupation of France (as well as French anti-Semitism) are all so trivialized as to verge on disgusting. In fact, the book should be called "chick lit goes to Nazi-occupied France." I may be pilloried for calling anything chick lit -- my wife hates the term, and understandably so; however, even she agreed that the book is chick lit.