The Nightingale

This is book is SO loved and SO hyped that I fully expected to also love it, but I did not.

If I'm reading historical fiction, I want to feel like I'm transported to that time. I want to be immersed in the place, the period, the language and the feeling of the time. Unfortunately, this just didn't do that for me. There were a lot of modern terms and words which were jarring against the warn torn 1940's France and brought me out of the story.

There were also a ton of inconsistencies, which other reviewers have diligently listed in their reviews so I wont, so once I started noticing these it was hard to stop and actually enjoy it as a story.

There were some elements I liked and it definitely wasn't awful, but it was far from the amazing hyped book I expected it to be. The narrator (Polly Stone) was excellent, which has earned it an extra star!

I had a few other books from this author on my radar so I still may try them (from the library or on audio) but I'll be going in with lower expectations now.