A review by stuartjrodriguez
The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

4.0

This is a really lovely novel, and touches on a lot of the same themes that Joukhadar addressed in The Map of Salt and Stars: a linked journey to both find and create a home, and a constant questioning of what it means to be one’s truest self. Joukhadar is an excellent writer, and this novel absolutely shines at the sentence level and on the beat-to-beat movement of scenes. His characters are also beautifully and achingly rendered, and their struggles and desires and heartbreaks feel so real. As a mystery, something about this novel didn’t *quite* click for me, though I can’t pinpoint exactly what it is. This is still very much worth a read!