I like horror literature and mystery novels so this one hits that great balance between both. The characters are very well written and the story in general is well descriptive, you want to know whats happening next.

I enjoyed the Historical Fiction part, understanding a little more what was happening in Argentina and how the character developed around the storyline.

It is not an easy read in terms of the plot and I would recommend it for an adult or mature audience as a reader, but it was amazing. Also, the translation was really good!

The writing is ok, but it's soooo slllllooooowwwwww

I've heard good things about her short story collection though

This is the author’s first novel to be translated to English. The description sucked me in: We are following the story of a father and son who are leaving a cult, The Order, that is obsessed with immortality. No matter the cost. I feel like if I say more I’ll spoil things so I’ll leave it at that. Lots of trigger warnings.

I was on board until I got to part III, I feel like the story really slowed down and could have been edited to be shorter (the book is a chunker, coming in at around 600 pages). Things started to pick up again after part III for me and I will say it had a satisfying ending.

Thank you to NetGalley, & Random House/Hogarth Books for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

(My review will be posted to my Instagram, @booksandbackstreet, closer to publishing date)

This is a long book. I like the depth the author goes into with the characters. The descriptions of buildings, jungles, people, monster/thing/darkness are excellent. After a while, though, the novel felt like a slog to go through. Descriptions of horrific child abuse got to be too much for me.

I know this is horror, and sometimes horror is grim, but graphic, bloody, torturous child abuse just...ugh.

My other problem was that the folks doing all the torturing didn't seem to understand why they did it. They were appeasing a violent, big, dark thing without being sure it could give them what they wanted. A lot of people were lying, hurting, torturing, and being hurt themselves without a clear understanding of why. The book is commentary on the brutal Argentine military rulers, but it might have been better as a thriller instead of a horror novel.

Honestly, the story gave me nightmares. The brutal torture of small children was too horrendous to me Thank you to Netgalley and Random House for allowing me to read and review Our Share of the Night...even if it gave me nightmares.

I haven’t read Mariana Enríquez before, so I went into Our Share of Night with no knowledge beyond her reputation for literary weirdness. I knew that this was technically a horror story (that cover!), and while it is that — with some seriously sick characters and graphic violence — I didn’t know that it’s also a savvy metaphor for the tumultuous recent history of Enríquez’s Argentina — with some seriously sick characters and graphic violence — and while it did feel overlong (my kindle app puts it at a thirteen hour read), it also felt like that length was making commentary on the banality and omnipresence of evil. I winced and harrumphed and sighed my way through this — and then I winced again, sighed some more — and any read that makes me feel so much, even so much negative, is worth four stars in my opinion (and especially when those negative feelings gave me a sense of Enríquez’s truth).

It took me a while to read this one, but in the end I really enjoyed it! The Order was creepy and the theme of generational trauma kept me reading.

Okay but when does Mariana Enriquez miss? Absolutely never ever ever. This was stunning, beautiful, great. I think it was relatively easy to read and very engaging. Idk if anything was lost in translation but it didn’t feel like it. I got a full story and felt satisfied by the end. Would def recommend.

Our Share of Night has a fascinating premise. Haunting and beautiful, it explores the ideas of family and friendship through the lens of generational trauma, showing how we carry these inflicted wounds both mentally and physically. The Darkness twists itself through the lives of these characters in a story that spawns generations, and in the end, you're still left wondering if the characters can ever be truly free.

However, this was not an easy book to read. I found myself rereading passages over to understand them, and I think this was for a few reasons. Firstly, the use of punctuation was not consistent. Sometimes quote marks would differentiate speech, but sometimes it wouldn't. Characters would have multiple names or nicknames that would be used interchangeably (for example, "Stephen" and "Esteban" would be used in the prose at random, same with "Eddie" and "Eduardo", etc), and sometimes characters would be referred to abstractly as "the woman" when there were multiple women in the room, leaving me to guess who the text was referring to. Coupled with the already complicated lore, it made this book hard to get through – I wonder if some of this is perhaps because of the translation. It made it hard for me to get attached to the characters.

That said, the way it explored many themes, like generational trauma as I mentioned above, or the AIDS crisis in comparison to The Darkness was really clever and beautiful. I just found the text sometimes overly confusing, making this a pretty dense read.

Mariana Enriquez's OUR SHARE OF NIGHT had me enraptured from the first page. Vibrantly translated by Megan McDowell, it's an epic of family and mystery, friendship and sexual awakenings, history and monsters, and it's full of moments and images that I won't soon forget: golden nails on a clawed hand, a boy watching as two men embrace, and the scariest door-close I think I've ever read. Enriquez's share of literary stardom has arrived.

Our Share of Night is unlike any book I have read in a long time. Mariana Enriquez crafts characters, a world and a story that is unique and blends coming of age, mystical tales and horror into a phenomenal story of a father and son trying to survive not only supernatural threats but the world around them and the threats that are all too human.

Enriquez’s writing is top notch and sucks you in as she crafts the story of Juan, Gaspar and the many people that enter their lives as well as those who wish to harm them. Throughout, Enriquez brings these characters to life and creates edges and layers that show that everyone has both a good and bad side and both come out in all sorts of situations.

By far the best written characters are Juan and Gaspar and Enriquez uses them to explore themes such as innocence, humanity and most interestingly identity with Juan being closeted which makes this supernatural story very grounded and human.

Our Share of Night is a must read book that I feel will be praised for its writing, themes and characters when it officially releases!

Our Share of Night is absolutely epic. Supernatural realism and Gothic horror collide with an intimate and brutal family portrait, and the result is a novel that is equal parts bewitching and horrifying. Enriquez pulls no punches as she leads the reader through Argentina's history and the gruesome world of the Order, and I found it deliciously unsettling to read about these horrors in her beautiful, lyrical writing. This is a dense, multi-layered read (I almost felt like I was reading several shorter novels that tied together, though that helped break the book down into more easily digestible chunks), but I didn't want it to end. Read this if you want an immersive book that is staggering in scope and so intense that you want to look away, but know you won't be able to until you finish.

Thank you so very much to Random House/Hogarth Books and NetGalley for providing a digital copy of Our Share of Night in exchange for an honest review. This English translation will be available February 7, 2023.

The Order is nothing to be played with, I was afraid of this fictional book through my kindle while reading in my living room! They are on a quest for eternal life and will stop at nothing to achieve it! I loved the Argentinian folklore woven into the tale and her use/reference/inspiration of Argentina’s current political and social situation are poignant and not los too the reader. The idea that money buys power to the detriment of anyone in their way is clear as Gaspar and his father try to run away from his destiny. This books if dark and long but for the lovers of the macabre it will be a hit!

I am always excited when a publisher representative contact me asking me to read their book based on my prior history. In this case I have read several Hispanic Translated Hispanic gothic horrors, or those rooted in Hispanic culture. I was super excited to dive into this one that I didn’t realize it clocked in at just over 600 pages. It was a doozy though, but I didn’t want to put it down.

Blurb from the publisher: In this debut novel, a woman's mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family. Moving back and forth in time, from London in the swinging 1960s to the brutal years of Argentina's military dictatorship and its turbulent aftermath, Our Share of Night is a novel like no other: a family story, a ghost story, a story of the occult and the supernatural.

This book was beautifully uniquely written yet horrifying at the same time. You will get all the feels from fear to loneliness. If you love a good horror book, this one will be right up your alley. This book is a slower read, but you get so immersed that you don’t want to stop. This was my first book by this author and translator combo, and I will be looking for more in the future. I gave this one a solid 4 out of 5 stars.

I want to extend my deepest gratitude to Ms. Sierra at Hogarth Books, a Random House group and @netgalley for allowing me this e-ARC in exchange for this honest review. This book publishes Feb 7th, 2023 so get it on your radar now!

This novel is so rich in tension and intrigue that you'll be holding your breath in some sections, unable to stop reading. As I like to say, it's a banger!

From the beautifully written prose to the absolutely horrifying evil, this book has you feeling all of your emotions. You'll experience fear, love, loneliness, hatred, and loss throughout the pages.

How to describe what the Order and the Darkness is without spoliers? Saying it's a cult of elite believers who want to achieve immortality is correct but doesn't even come close to the atmospheric and bleak tones that's presented to us.

This is novel for serious lovers of horror where building a world with believable characters is more important than the bloodshed (although there's plenty of that as well).

I can't wait to review this novel on my Horror Reads YouTube channel as the release date approaches. I have already made this one of my best top ten horror books for 2023.

I want to thank NetGalley for giving me opportunity to read this book before it’s released as an advanced reader copy. I am writing this review of my own free will.

I almost Completely DNF this book. The writing style is very unique and not what I’m used to. It took me a few chapters to get the hang of it. I had to take breaks often while reading this book. There is a lot of information that is slowly fed to you. The storytelling is very straightforward. Very little mystery, most of the characters were not very likable, I did like that there was context and history given to feed the plot. The world is flushed out. It’s definitely eerie. The meat of the story is good though. At some parts I was definitely on edge. It had me flipping through the pages as quickly as possible for what was next.

This book ultimately ended up in the middle for me. I didn’t hate it but I didn’t love it.

Fantastic. I loved this one. The premise is difficult to explain and so I went in blind and I adored my reading experience. Highly recommend this as it is my first time reading translated work and it was great.

People often say that life can be a nightmare. But for some that’s not a simple figure of speech. For those who lived through the terror in Argentina during the second half of the 20th Century, nightmares were a part of daily life. Families never knew whether those that they woke up with in the morning would survive the day. Reality became so traumatic that illusion was oftentimes a healthy substitute. There has been much written about the initial hope and subsequent terror of the brutal Peron dictatorships. The non-fiction often reads like a horror novel.

Mariana Enriquez takes this subject matter to its logical, extreme conclusion in her terrifying (and prized) debut novel, “Our Share of Night”. Nightmares are frequent. Characters awake never quite sure whether it was just a nightmare or whether they had experienced something horrific that they may or may not have been meant to see.

Enriquez brings exquisite skills to the task. While “Our Share of Night” is her first full-length novel, she has had a distinguished career as a writer, editor, and critic. Most appropriately, she is a journalist. “Our Share of Night” reads like true crime expose with levels of detail and an eye that only a top-flight journalist possesses.

“Our Share of Night” is “a lot of book” in every way. There are frequent depictions of multiple forms of violence – vivid and intense. There are complex musings on family relationships and sexuality that will stretch a reader’s mind. There are many tributaries to the main story, in retrospect most always included for good reason, even if not so clear from the outset.

“Our Share of Night” is beautifully and smoothly translated by Megan McDowell. It is highly cinematic and needs to be brought to a small or preferably large screen soon. (P.S. The “soundtrack” was wonderful, too). Congratulations, Ms. Enriquez. I can hardly wait to see where your future writing career takes you.

Thanks to Random House - Hogarth and Netgalley for the eARC.

Our Share of Night is a book in six parts, and I'm tempted to rate each of those parts separately, because it was an uneven read. This was my introduction of Mariana Enriquez, and I suspect I will seek out more of her work in the future. Parts of this book (I and III, to be precise) blew me away. I felt like I'd slipped into another dimension, I was that immersed! Each of the parts are told from different POVS, some third person, some first. When we get to Part IV, which was told in first person, I felt like I was having things explained to me. Parts V (which was short, at least) seemed wholly unnecessary.

The story begins with widower Juan Petersen, a man with supernatural abilities, returning to the home of his wealthy and powerful in-laws for a disturbing annual visit. With him is his son, Gaspar, who Juan wishes to protect from the influence of his dead wife's family. The story then unfurls in time and space, sprawling out over decades and continents. The 1976 coup, wherein Argentinian president Peron was ousted, and the ensuing political instability and military brutality, is a thread that is woven throughout, sometimes to the detriment of the story. It is riveting history, and its effects on the characters is profound and obvious. But at times it felt like those same characters are shunted to the side to make room for the author to drive home a point about the brutalities of that era.

This is hard book to pin down. It will definitely stick with me. It wasn't perfect, but parts of it were astounding. I definitely recommend it...but only if you like horror! This had some VERY disturbing scenes. Proceed with caution into a brilliant, macabre experience.

This was an excellent book of lore. Scary, creepy, and a very strong storyline. I love this author. Kept me up all night.

A creepy, gripping and visceral story that is so timely and poignant. I really enjoyed this one and cannot wait to talk about it with my peers!