A review by bookreviewswithkb
It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

“only a small difference in sound separates “leave” from “live.”

this novel is an examination of how we can become tools of oppression, how we can be brutalized and made into weapons of destruction, how the power can beat us into a submission we never knew we were capable of. the terror of grief and loss, of the lengths we will go to when we are left without choices. this novel is beautifully written but it does seem that the author ignores the class and race structures in Venezuela which limited the scope of understanding of the political circumstances that created the violence and destruction the protagonist is navigating 

“Living: a miracle that I still don’t understand fully, one that grabs hold with the teeth of guilt. Surviving is part of the horror that travels with anyone who escapes. A plague that strives to bring us down when we’re healthy, to remind us that someone else was more deserving of staying alive.”