Emily Collins’s Reviews > The Nightingale > Status Update

While attempting to flee, Sarah was shot… 11 years old and she was shot for being Jewish. Then Vianne hid Rachel and Ari for the night, and couldn’t be patient enough to hide them for any longer so they immediately were found and arrested by the Germans. Now Vianne is trying to take care of Ari and Rachel is on her way to a concentration camp.

Holy shit. The French police are deporting foreign Jews to concentration camps…. Isabelle and her father are hiding a mother and two children in their apartment but another one of their neighbors was taken by the police.

Just Isabelle casually leading enemy pilots through the Pyrenees mountains into Spain…. I genuinely can’t believe how much of a badass this woman is. A hero.

The nazis came and fired every jew that Vianne had listed from their jobs. The Germans are also taking all of the food and leaving the French with little to nothing. Rachel forgave Vianne way too easily for the shit she did. Damn. Isabelle stole a bicycle and brought it to the communist. He’s going to paint it for her in return of a kiss. She’s thinking of Gaeten the whole time.

Isabelle is sneaking out to retrieve printed letters from communists in the area. The letters say that the French are backing the president. Isabelle is distributing them around town… a crime punishable by death. Beck gave Vianne a list of prisoners of war (including her husband) to share with the wives in the town…In return, this bitch gave him a list of all the Jews and communists in the town. Including Rachel

Wow. A freaking German soldier is moving into their house. Isabelle is absolutely right to hide their valuables and Vianne needs to just accept that she’s doing her best to protect the family. This is wild. Isabelle could have died…

Wow. This is incredibly written so far. Vianne just said goodbye to her husband and he went off to war.