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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