Already know this is one of my favorites of 2024. So much to think about and dig through here, I'm in love. ( )

Elaborate, heavy, involved, deep. Yeah, those are definitely good descriptions. It’s such an amazing experience to immerse yourself in another culture during a literary adventure. Most books I’ve read are an adventure with their basic elemental parts, this book was a bit more like a cerebral cake I tried desperately to enjoy over a longer period of time.

This novel feels like a story about something so sinister and ancient, and we get to see a few snapshots over such a small time frame, as it journeys through one family and their constituents. There may have been some short periods of unnecessary tangents, but overall every section gave color and body to the blooms, roses and falls of the characters as to really get to know them. This story had every feel imaginable and were done well. The novel may have been a chunk, but I still wish there were at least 50ish or so more pages to conclude the heartfelt notion at the very end of the story. Because of those 2 small personal itches, 4.5 stars from me.
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https://tamaranth.blogspot.com/2024/01/2024003-our-share-of-night-mariana.html ( )

This is as hard to get back to as it is to give up. Evil is bad for children and other living things. I'm not sure why I found it as readable as I did, but it was possibly because the gross happenings in the narrative are dwarfed by those recalled - except in one final incident, and we view the destruction from the point of view of those struggling against it. It is the characters and the care they occasionally have for each other as they struggle with themselves and their doomed entanglement.
Just about every trigger warning (well not tentacles) would be appropriate for this book although very little of the truly unspeakable is in-your-face. ( )

Un padre y un hijo atraviesan Argentina por carretera, desde Buenos Aires hacia las cataratas de Iguazú, en la frontera norte con Brasil. Son los años de la junta militar, hay controles de soldados armados y tensión en el ambiente. El hijo se llama Gaspar y el padre trata de protegerlo del destino que le ha sido asignado. La madre murió en circunstancias poco claras, en un accidente que acaso no lo fue.
Como su padre, Gaspar está llamado a ser un médium en una sociedad secreta, la Orden, que contacta con la Oscuridad en busca de la vida eterna mediante atroces rituales. En ellos es vital disponer de un médium, pero el destino de estos seres dotados de poderes especiales es cruel, porque su desgaste físico y mental es rápido e implacable. Los orígenes de la Orden, regida por la poderosa familia de la madre de Gaspar, se remontan a siglos atrás, cuando el conocimiento de la Oscuridad llegó desde el corazón de África a Inglaterra y desde allí se extendió hasta Argentina.