A review by marureviere
La notte più lunga by Leylah Attar

5.0

5 UNFORGETTABLE STARS!

“Sometimes we need to be jarred out of our own reality. We base so much of ourselves on other people’s perceptions of us. We live for the compliments, the approval, the applause. But what we really need is a grand, spine-chilling encounter with ourselves to believe we’re freaking magical. And that’s the best kind of believing, because no one can unsay it or take it away from you."

Wow, this was a beautiful, beautiful book. A glorious experience that I would not forget any time soon.

The grief was palpable throughout the pages, especially in the beginning.

You can feel Jack's hopelessness, his sorrow.

"If torment could be grasped, it would be in the pauses between his words."

his anger, his disbelief, his all-encompassing grief.

"He fell apart slowly, his walls crumbling brick by brick, as if the house he’d been living in was being swept away by a mudslide. When he cried, there was a rawness to it, an agony that spoke of denial, of an open wound that had gone untended. The sobs were stifled at first, like he was trying to hold his grief at bay. How deep he’d buried it, I didn’t know, but it washed over him in waves. He hunched over the steering wheel, his hands clasping and unclasping, as if searching for something to hold on to, to keep from getting sucked into the next surge of pain."

But in grief, Jack finds comfort and solace in Rodel, who also lost a loved one. Thus, they are connected through their loss. They find healing in each other.

Sometimes the most heroic thing we can do is fight the battle within and just emerge on the other side. Because it’s not just one battle, one time. We do it over and over again, as long as we breathe, as long as we live."


This is a beautiful story of pain, desolation, hope, and love. About cherishing the moments that you have with the people that you care about. It's a story about found family, about daring to love and be loved again.

"Some circles never close, some wounds never heal. Love is like that. It leaves you forever open, forever vulnerable."