Winter Garden

Couldn’t wait until it ended. Unrealistic, unsympathetic characters. Really enjoyed The Nightingale, but not this one.

This is a wonderful story of love and loss and finding new beginnings.

Kristen Hannah delivers again. It is not my favorite, but still captivating.

A bit slow to start with but the end totally made it worthwhile, it brought me to tears a number of times. So glad I pushed through

I really enjoyed this book!

It took me a while to get into the book, but once the characters were well established, the pace picked up.

Good

Enjoyed the story!

The narrator was amazing and she read the story so well and with so much emotion.

I loved this.book. I laughed and cried. It was a beautiful read.

Wonderful book- great characters- enjoyed the family dynamics. Will listen again

This book is a painful read/listen. The first half of the book is almost unbearable to get through. It did pick up a little bit, but not enough. Kristin Hannah’s other books are excellent. But this one and Night Road are not worth your time. I literally had to check the internet to make sure there weren’t two authors with the same name. Move on to something else if you loved The Great Alone and Nightingale. This won’t do it for you.

Beautiful story.

I have mixed emotions about this book the beginning is long and drags on a bit but the ending is great! Overall I would recommend

I could barely get through the first 2 hours of listening. Boring!

I’m glad this isn’t the first Kristin Hannah book that I picked up or I probably wouldn’t have read another. Love Kristin Hannah reads but this one I could have done without! I just kept waiting for it to get good. It never did

Fascinating historical fiction.

I loved this book!! After I got into it I couldn’t stop listening!!

A hauntingly beautiful story that I didn't see emerging until quite far into the book. I enjoyed it and found it totally absorbing. Wept my eyes out in the last few chapters. One of my best 'reads' so far

Excellent book could not put it down. Highly recommend this book. Was sad when it was done.....love Kristin's books !!!

Needed an edit. Too much repetition in the first 2/3rds of the book. Had to hand on til the end to find out the mystery.

Winter Garden was a disappointment after Nightingale. The first two thirds of the book kept repeating the same thing over and over. I'm glad I hung on till the end even though I was ready to quit listening. I have enjoyed a number of Kristin Hannah's books and have learned they start out VERY slowly only to turn a corner and make me sit in my car long after I've gotten to my destination just so I hear what happens next! Throughout the first part of Winter Garden I kept reminding myself it should get better...and it did.

I did not like this book at all, which is unusual for me. Mostly I've really enjoyed all the audiobooks I've listened to even if they were not great stories. For me, I think that a combination of things made this book very hard to get through, but mainly the story itself was so boring. Six hours into the book and nothing had really happened to set up the story or keep the reader interested. Both the mother and the 2 sisters were really 2 dimensional characters and the relationship between them was very annoying. I, too, bought this book because I listened to the Nightingale, which was amazing. Winter garden cannot even come close. It's tough to say that the narrator was the issue because the book itself and the characters were so bad.

This book was great from the beginng to end. I did not want to stop listening. It is well written and well read.

Loved this book! Heart wrenching but truly beautiful story.

I did not like the book mostly because I could not get to like the female characters. while it is not important to like the characters the reader should at least care about what happens to them and I really did not. I skipped ahead to the end because I never leave a book unfinished, but did not go back to read the middle. Still I like Kristin Hannah's writing style and found the part about the Leningrad war zone interesting, therefore three stars.

I loved every second of this story. Beautiful and heartbreaking I cried the entire time.

I was in tears almost the whole time!

Get through the first half, it is worth it! Wonderful, haunting story.

Although this book seemed to start off a bit slow, I ended up loving it! Such an emotional and heartfelt story. I love Kristin Hannah's writing. It made me want to do my own research about Russia's history.

So disappointed after The Nightingale. I could not finish listening. It was painful. I got 1/3 through and couldn't stand the whining sisters. Don't waste your time on this one!

Very long and drawn out, but a haunting story beautifully read