Book Reviews – Night Will Find You – What About Men?

Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin

This book proved to be one in the unputdownable genre. Our protagonist is Vivvy Bouchet who, as a young child, shows a strong fascination with the crime photos her mother takes for the morgue. However, there’s much more to Vivvy than her desire to see photos of dead people. Vivvy is both an astronomer who is being funded to find a light at the edge of the universe and a psychic who has come home to clean out her recently deceased mother’s house. While home, Vivvy is asked to help with the cold case of a missing girl that is still in the media headlines. So much is happening – Detective Jesse Sharp, who seems to have a hidden agenda, Vivvy’s history with the police officer who asks for her help, a podcaster who seems set on getting Vivvy lynched, and the memories of growing up with a solo mother who didn’t always provide a stable home life. This is an excellent book to curl up with while the rain keeps coming down.

What About Men? by Caitlin Moran

I loved Moran’s first book How To Be A Woman and her brutal honesty and irreverence had me laughing out loud. Moran started her career as a music journalist and as a staunch feminist and mother of daughters, had never considered what it is to be a young man in today’s world. Media is finally reflecting the changes that women have been working hard to progress for decades and that, it sometimes seems, is a world that is pro-women to the detriment of men. Perhaps this is why toxic males such as Andrew Tate are being glorified by young men looking for role models. This look at how men interact with each other, what seems to be missing in their lives, and how they feel about themselves is intriguing and, of course, still irreverent. I just loved this and certainly it is a book for all women who have a son/husband/nephew they’d like to understand just that little bit more.