The Night Always Comes

Written By Linda Malek

The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin
Reviewed by Omma
📕📕📕📕📕

Willy Vlautin loves his deeply traumatic characters and heart-wrenching stories and this is the case in his latest novel! 😩

Honestly, this book had me 👌🏽 close to crying and I don’t consider myself an easy crier.

The story covers a two-day period where we meet Lynette who is trying to get together all the money she’s saved in the last 3 years for a deposit on their crumbling house.
We learn about some of the awful things she’s gone through to get this money but also the things that happened to her to get her to this point in her life.

The story is almost like a car crash, you cannot help but stare at the horror that’s unfolding.

Willy Vlautin is an exceptional writer who is definitely one of my favourites (I’m sure you’ve seen us bang on about Don’t skip out on me enough!) and this also doesn’t disappoint.

Linda Malek

I've always had the urge to set up a forum and voice my thoughts after each read, but never had the confidence to do so alone. 18 months ago, I got my fellow book-loving friends involved and formed The Candid Book Club! Aside from having an exponentially growing to-read pile and deteriorating shortsightedness, we've been lucky to have been invited to publisher events and have attended several talks with our favourite authors (Thank you and long may they continue!) To take a break from the pressures of PhD Chemistry, Jess and I exchanged books all the time and in my youth, I was that kid with the first editions of Harry Potter having already read Gulliver’s travels and some Charles Dickens. At work, my desk is a library and luckily for me I sit next to another bookworm Jack who entertains all the photo-taking. I'm suffering from a chronic case of wanderlust (age-related crisis) so books which are set as far away from home as possible tend to float my boat: Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Asia...you name it. But if it's got anything to do with Egypt then I'm all over it. So you get the drift...I read all the time, everywhere (on the tube mostly), everyday, a book a week, and very quickly I'm onto the next! And then sometimes there is a book that stops me in my tracks, makes me want to swallow the pages whole, and have it next to me at all times, with some sentences staying with me forever: Shantaram by David Gregory Roberts, anything by Khaled Hosseini, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo (absolute gem of a woman), A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, The Good Immigrant edited by Nikesh Shuklaand and anything by Naguib Mahfouz.

Previous

Dial A for Aunties
Next

The Night Always Comes