Loved it!!! This is the first book I read by the author and I can't wait to read more. Beautifully written and I can't stop thinking about it. I have read a lot of historical fiction books and this is completely different. There's so much I didn't know. I didn't realize the Nazi's ran tests on children to see how impure they were and would sterilize the ones who didn't past the test. Nazi Germany was such a scary place and time. It's hard to believe how cruel people can be to others. I loved reading about Lilith's time in Cuba and found it extremely interesting. I knew nothing about Cuba's history. Lilith had a wonderful life there until Castro came into power. What she endured with her husband and daughter was heartbreaking. She was reliving her life in Germany, but she was the mother this time. I never knew that so many families evacuated their children from Cuba. Ally, Lilith and Nadine were extraordinary women and mother's. They would do anything to ensure the safety of their children. Lilith and especially Ally, had to endure so much to keep their daughters safe. It was definitely a shock to find out who was involved when the Nazi's showed up at Ally's door. I was hoping Ally and Herr Professor would one day be reunited with Lilith. Loved this from the start until the end.

Definitely recommend the book. I loved the characters, writing style and story. Look forward to reading more books by the author. Loved the cover of the book.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Atria Books through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

I am blown away by this extraordinary novel! "The Night Travelers" by Armando Lucas Correa is an epic depiction of multi-generational residual trauma, horror, guilt, insecurities, sadness and struggles of wars and sacrifices. So well told, with brilliant characters, four strong women going to extreme lengths to save their families and survive. Love channeled through generations, this book was excellent, magnificent and memorable. Thank you NetGalley, the author and publisher for the early review copy. All opinions are my own.

A story that spans decades and generations, strong women that give their most precious gift to others in order to save lives.
The story begins and ends in Germany, first with the evil that has penetrated Europe, and then the same in Cuba, ultimately ending back to the beginning in Berlin. Four generations, and we follow them and their hard decisions to choose life for their children.
Tough subjects are dealt with, and keep reading to the authors notes, some disturbing revelations are revealed, things that happened that most are oblivious to.
This is a page turner, some of the people in the path of these individuals are wolves in sheep clothing, sadly.
A read that although fiction, could be very true, and we need to not forget!
I received this book through Net Galley and the publisher Atria Books, and was not required to give a positive review.

Armando Lucas Correa you have created a third masterpiece with your new novel The Night Travelers. Every word on every page captivated me and took me on an unimaginable journey from the rise of Hitler to the Cuban Revolution and finally to the fall of the Berlin Wall. I am an avid historical fiction reader yet you were still able to teach me many new things.

“By night we are all the same color.”

“Sometimes you have to abandon what you love the most”

You will meet four generations of women, three of which will endure similar horrific circumstances. Aly, Lilith and Nadine will be forced to decide if they have the courage to protect their children at any cost. Luna will embark on a journey to find out what really happened to her family, and help her mother make peace with her past.

Thank you NetGalley and Atria Books for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In 2019 one of the first books I read was The Daughter’s Tale and I knew it was going to be one of my favorite reads that year. The Night Travelers is one of my last reads of 2022 and it is officially one of my favorite reads this year. Thank you Armando Lucas Correa for keeping history alive with your novels. I look forward to your next novel and hope I don’t have to wait too long.

Overall: ☆☆☆☆(4.0)
Writing style: ☆☆☆☆
Entertainment ☆☆☆☆
Characters ☆☆☆☆☆
Plot: ☆☆☆☆
Ending:☆☆☆


First and foremost, I would love to thank Net-Galley, the author, and publishers for allowing me the opportunity to obtain an ARC copy of this novel for my honest opinion and review.

Immediately from reading the synopsis I knew there was such an opportunity for a real, raw, and powerful novel about the unrelenting love of a mother and the power it has to overcome war and separation.

This novel was so powerful and unlike any other historical  fiction I generally read. Most historical fiction that centers around nazi Germany, will only contain the historical information that ravaged the country of Germany and the Jewish people.

However, this author was able to take it a step further, and additionally show how communism and war ravaged another country, shortly afterwards.

Additionally, they were able to apply it to one family, who must overcome the tyrannical leaders of their country, and provide better lives for their daughters.

The story follows Ally Keller, in Berlin, who gives birth to her daughter Lilith; and must save her from the the eugenics  sterilization that was taking place in order to make a more pure German country.

Lilith was sent to Havana, where we then follow her story as she lives in the Cuban country that will also soon face a Communist war;  In which she must save her daughter Nadine from.

After Nadine is sent to America to live in a country not ravaged by war, she finds herself back in her grandmother's country of Germany, as her adoptive family faces allegations of War crimes related to nazi Germany.

This eventually leads to her and her daughter Luna, who began to unravel and decipher where they have come from and what their past may still hold.

Many times this book brought me to tears and absolutely ravaged me. I will admit, during the Lilith portion of the story, it seems to be more plot development, and slows down drastically; which did lose my attention for a small portion of the novel. However, the author quickly grabs the attention back when you realize that she is following in her own mother's footsteps of having to save her daughter by giving her up and abandoning her.

Beautiful characters, amazing development, and quite the imagery. I thoroughly enjoyed this one!

This was a quite complicated story, and fascinating for that complexity. So many stories have been written about the Jewish Holocaust, but this novel focuses on other people of color also targeted for extermination. When Ally Keller gives birth in Germany to a mixed race girl at the same time Hitler is rising to power, she knows to keep her little Lilith in the shadows as much as possible, until finally she realizes she must send her out of the country altogether. While Ally is not allowed to leave, a Jewish couple is, and takes her daughter as their own to Cuba, setting off the complex generational guilt and confusion that haunts the family for decades, especially when Lilith has to send her daughter out of Cuba for her protection as well.
The history and the unusual perspective are fascinating, and the emotional situation is heartbreaking. It's a very complex novel to structure, and it doesn't always work out well, but is worth muddling through. My biggest problem was that the voices of the four women was far too similar; I simply could not keep them apart. Luna was a little more distinct, but she was more of an exclamation point at the end than a full character. Still, it was fascinating stuff.

While I found the storyline unique and somewhat engaging, the writing did not appeal and was a little too stilted in some way for me to enjoy. Almost as if the book was a poor translation, although this was written in English. the narrative follows the life stories of three generations of women affected by war, revolution and searing choices two of them regarding saving her daughters from the Third Reich and then from the Cuban communist takeover are the center ofthe plot lines, leading to a unique resolution and piecing together of the bloodlines to find each other again. A very intriguing concept, but execution felt a little too flat for my tastes.

I thoroughly enjoyed this historical fiction book and rate it a solid 4 stars. It is a sweeping multi generational story of four women, beginning in 1931 Berlin, Germany and ending in Berlin in 2015. The 4 women:
Ally, mother of Lilith
Lilith, mother of Nadine
Nadine, mother of Luna.
Luna, who who wants to find out about the past of all of parents, grandparents and great grandparents and why they did what they did.
It is a story of survival and loss, in the midst of war, twisted Na**sm, communism, the failed "science" of eugenics and how they damaged the lives of these 4 women.
Along the way, we see the book characters in Cuba, New York city and back to Berlin.
There is closure at the end for 3 of the 4 women, through the efforts of Luna who connects the dots in the family history. I recommend this book to fans of historical fiction.
Two quotes
Birth of Lilith by midwife: "It's a Rhineland bastard. You've brought a mischling into the world. This girl isn't German, she's Black."
Professor friend to Lilith: "To learn a language, the first thing to dois capture its musicality, untangle your tongue, relax your facial muscles."
Thanks to Katelyn Phillips at Atria Books for sending this eARC through NetGalley.
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The Night Travelers is a multi-generational historical fiction novel with a dual timeline. I usually love to read historical fiction but The Night Travelers left me a little disappointed. Thanks to the author Armando Lucas Correa, Atria Books, and NetGalley. I received a complimentary copy of this ebook. The opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own.

This is a beautiful book that follows four generations of women through some of the toughest periods of modern history. We start with Ally, in a Germany on the brink of the second world war. Then her daughter Lilith, coming of age in a tumultuous Cuba. Lilith's daughter Nadine escapes to the US, only to find her life haunted by WWII. And finally Luna, whose sense of self is undeniably complicated by the three women who came before her.

The detail in this book is exquisite, and I really felt that I could "see" myself in Havana and Berlin. It is a lengthy read, packed with the lives of many characters, and I would not call it fast-paced. This is one of those stories you want to take your time with, to fully marinate in the feelings of the characters and their surroundings. It is also, as expected given the settings, depressing. Things that can go wrong, do go wrong. And some of the characters make these horrrrrible choices that makes you go, "seriously?!"

The ending is beautiful and wraps up the stories nicely, in my opinion. I love the connectedness that these four women have, despite the decades and many thousands of miles that separate them. Overall, a lovely book with exquisite atmospheric and historic detail! Thank you to Armando Lucas Correa, Atria Books, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this ARC!

WorldWar II is a popular subject for historical fiction fans. The Night Traveler is focused on four generations of women in one family. Escaping from the German program of Eugenics is the principal theme here. A mother’s sacrifice to save her daughter occurs in two generations of this family.
The cruelty and disturbing treatment of the Jews, and the others not thought to be of the pure German race, never ceases to amaze me. This is a moving, and sometimes difficult story, but well worth reading.
Armando Lucas Correa is an author that has written two prior novels that I have read and enjoyed. The German Girl and The Daughter’s Tale are also excellent books. I look forward to this author’s future endeavors.

Four women, four stories, four different time periods.

Three of them - Ally, Lilith, Nadine - mothers who find themselves in similar situations - they had to send their daughters away to protect them because of war and prejudice. The fourth is Luna who never married.

Ally was born in Germany and had to give up Lilith because she was a mixed race child that Germany classified unfit because of the "racial hygiene" laws .

She sent Lilith to Cuba with a German couple where they never heard from each other again, where Lilth married Martin, had a child Nadine, and a child that had to be sent out of the country when the Cuban Revolution happened.

Nadine wants to know about her heritage and goes to Berlin. Nadine has a daughter Luna. Luna wants to help her mother find peace with their pasts, and they both go back to Cuba.

It took a bit to get into the book, but historical fiction fans will devour this very beautifully written, complex read that pulls at your heart strings and shows the power of motherly love and a cruel world.

The alluring, gorgeous cover adds to the captivating storyline. 4/5

This book was given to me by the publisher via NetGalley for an honest review.

I so loved The Daughter's Tale when I read it and was really excited to get this one from NetGalley. I loved this one too for many reasons but mostly because I got to know these women so well and the author made me care for them. This book pulls the reads emotions from the touching, loving feeling of a mother for her daughter to the horror of protecting that daughter from persecution to the point of death. There are a lot of books that cover this topic, yet I found this one to be particularly well-written. The writing is evocative and emotional and nearly poetic, but also heartbreaking, given the topic. The storyline is complex enough to hold attention and the author does a superior job conveying both what people do and why. There is a definite feeling of immersion in the story for me.

Such a well-written book that keeps your attention to the end, those times were very hard to imagine but Armando Lucas Correa makes it easy to picture it in your head while reading. I was taken to a different time and place. His passion for the subject shines through. I read this emotionally fraught book in a couple of sittings. The story pulls you in and you want to speed read to find out just how it ends and the pace of the story never lets up. It is sad but heartwarming, gut-wrenching at times. The author does an admirable job of putting us in the shoes of all the main characters, helping the reader to understand the lack of choices. The book shows the strength of all the women it portrays. I am still thinking about this book long after I finished it.

I was lucky enough to win a digital ARC of THE NIGHT TRAVELERS by Armando Lucas Correa in a Shelf Awareness giveaway. Thanks for the early look, and have a spooky but safe Halloween!

This novel is a multi-generational tale of women making impossible choices in challenging circumstances. In the early 1930's in Berlin, widowed Ally makes the difficult decision to send her mixed-race daughter on a ship to Cuba. That daughter, Lilith, grows up in Cuba and must protect her daughter against the rise of Communism by sending her to New York. That daughter, Nadine, grows up and travels to Berlin. There are very heavy events being depicted and I can't imagine the sacrifices these women make to protect their children. An engrossing story. However, while I "felt" their dilemmas on an intellectual level, for some reason there was a lack of connection with these characters and what they were going through.

5.0 stars

First off, thank you to Armando Lucas Correa, Atria Books, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read a Kindle ARC of this book.

Oh, my goodness. This book was AMAZING!! I have also read the other two books in this trilogy. I have even called the initial book, THE GERMAN GIRL, a masterpiece when recommending it to one of my friends. Needless to say, I am a HUGE fan of Armando's work.

I won't discuss the plot as others have done it beautifully - plus, I don't want to accidentally give anything away. This book is a fitting, beautiful, and perfect send-off to the heartbreaking story of the MS St. Louis. Armando just writes so vividly and amazingly. I can picture myself as a hidden onlooker in the various scenes of his books. At many times throughout the novel, his writing reminded me of Isabel Allende - another author favorite of mine.

I have put myself on a diet of WWII books, but for the end of this trilogy, I made an exception and I am glad that I did. I learned so much about many parts of history that I was clueless - most especially, Cuba and the MS St. Louis. Thank you for opening my heart and my mind, Armando.

This amazing novel is one of my TOP THREE for 2022. That is saying a lot as 2022 has been an incredible year for FANTASTIC books like Amando's.

HIGHLY RECOMMEND. This book is a stand-alone novel, but I recommend reading the first two books in the trilogy first. It will add so much more to the reading experience of THE NIGHT TRAVELERS.

P.S. Armando, PLEASE write more books!!

"The Night Travelers" is a multi-generational story that follows 3 women who live in separate periods and places in time, but share in their traumas and struggles. Ally Keller forced to raise her young daughter Lilith alone in Berlin, and on the cusp of World War II, must deal with the fact that her mixed race child isn't accepted in society. When the danger becomes too great, she sends Lilith with trusted friends to Havana, Cuba, in hopes that she will simply be seen as a Jew fleeing for safety. Years later we follow Lilith in Cuba and follow her journey. Thee was a great deal to follow.

Thank you to netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This was such a different WW2 historical fiction book than what I have read before as it is about a mixed race baby that is born in Germany just before the Nazis have taken over. I don’t want to ruin the story but it was interesting to learn more about other mixed race children and what life was like for them in the author’s note.

Pick up this book you’ll be glad you did.

Another great book by Armando Correa. I love how he captures the love mothers have for their children and the sacrifices they are willing to make to keep them safe. This book made me cry (not an easy feat!) and I will be thinking about these women for a long time!

Thanks to Atria books, NetGalley and the author for the ARC (and the handwritten note!)

Have you read Armando Lucas Correa’s ‘The German Girl’ or ‘The Daughter’s Tale?’ If so, you’ll want this title that completes his loose trilogy about the survivors of the SS St. Louis.

Correa explores the lives of three women from different times and places who were united in their struggle in making difficult decisions involving family. Ally, Lilith, and Nadine are all forced to make a choice that will keep loved ones safe. For one, it's about ensuring a mixed-race child escapes trauma as WW2 looms, for another it's about keeping a child safe from the grasp of communism and the Cuban Revolution, and for the third, it’s about ensuring a mother is freed from the guilt of her past so that she can enjoy the present and the future.

Have you ever looked at the back side of a tapestry? You’ve probably noticed the chaos of threads and couldn’t imagine that a simple flick of the wrist could turn it over to reveal a beautiful piece of art. It always amazes me. This story is like that. History oozes from the pages of this incredibly rich story. I was unsure how it was all going to work out because of the author’s taut plotting. I had plenty of guesses, but Correa held onto the front side of the tapestry, so to speak, so that I couldn’t see the big picture until he came full circle with his story.

The writing style is different as it utilizes letters and poems in uniting the women’s stories. It’s emotional; the women’s choices are not easy ones to make and the circumstances in which the choice must be made are difficult experiences.

One essential ingredient was missing that would have made this a great book - emotional depth. With so much death, loss and sadness, I expected characters who dug deep to find other emotions to focus on or, at the very least, a strong response to their experiences. The writing came across as too emotionally detached. I also would have loved to have had more distinction between the characters; a unique voice or tone. Is this a personal preference or a shortcoming of writing in third person? I’m not sure. You’ll need to find out yourself!

This book will have you contemplating one of the character’s declarations, “By night, we’re all the same color,” and questioning how far society has really progressed with respect to acceptance.

I love a title that makes me think. I don’t want to be handed everything on a silver platter. There seems to be a trend of simplistic, tell-all titles out there. Congratulations!

I was gifted this copy by Atria Books and NetGalley and was under no obligation to provide a review.