Red Midnight

Gripping, and not just because I spend my Tuesdays working with women fleeing violence in their home countries, some of them, like the narrator in this book, Q'eqchi' speakers from Guatemala. Ben Mikaelsen does an admirable and mostly successful job of maintaining narrative discipline in conveying t......more

When guerrilla soldiers strike Santiago's village, they destroy everything in their path. They kill his whole family except him and his little sister. Running away meant really far away. On the path finds helpful people but surviving is not easy. He needs to survive with only limited supplies. His d......more

It was a good book! One of the only things i didn't like about it was the ending was kind of rushed. Even after that it was still a good book!......more

Red Midnight was really good and well written. But, it was so sad, I cried on the first page.......more

Red Midnight, written by Ben Mikaelsen, was a great read and had me yearning for more every page. In the book, the main character is a young boy, around 12-years-old, named Santiago. Around midnight, his village is raided by soldiers and a voluminous amount of people were killed along with it. Despi......more