A review by kategci
On a Night of a Thousand Stars by Andrea Yaryura Clark

3.0

Thank you to BookBrowse and Grand Central Publishing for an ARC of this title. This review is published as well on the BookBrowse site. This dual timeline historical novel tells the story of Argentina from the early 1970s through the mid 1980s, prior to the military dictatorship and when people were disappeared through a law student and then in 1998 through his daughter. I was interested in the place and what happened and I found the first timeline much more interesting, although I am still not too sure of which government was better for the citizens (or neither?). Santiago is privileged and falls deeply in love with Valentina, but marries Lila. He would prefer to keep his student days a secret. His daughter Paloma seems happy enough, but goes digging into the past, uncovering secrets she is not sure she wants to know. She is not really all that interesting and Franco, whose parents were disappeared and murdered, is not all that interesting either. In the end, this was probably not the book for me.