This is the third book in recent months in which the blurb for book is misleading and not what the book is mainly about. I was invested in the characters and interested in their stories, but I was expecting a different read and a story that was more riveting and tense as the summary stated. It was still a good read, but I wanted more from it. The audio narration was really great in this one.

The book had potential, but all means the content, or the intended content, is interesting and will draw many readers to pick up this book. Unfortunately, the multiple POV's are not well executed. The voices weren't always distinct enough.

This book is by no means perfect, but I can see why many will enjoy this novel.

I sat back and slowly took my headphones off when the audio finished. Peyton crafted a novel that spoke to the fierce feminine side of my heart. Alice, Lulu, Patience, Nan, Serah and Junie are under the oppressive thumb of the Lucys (aptly nicknamed after Lucifer). They work the fields, take care of the chores and do double the work daily. When the Lucys decide to bring in "stockmen" to impregnate them for future financial gains we see the resilience and cunning of these women shine.

There is an oddity in the writing where it moves from third person to first person. I'm not typically a reader who finds issue with transitions like this but it did make it a little hard to decide who the voice was for at times. I found this to be a glimpse into the lives of these six women more than a focus on the forced child bearing. It's a chilling aspect that made my skin crawl thinking about the history behind a book like this and I enjoyed how Peyton did not sugarcoat any of the dark realities. Those parts are raw and eloquently visceral in their execution.

The audio is narrated by Karen Chilton perfectly. Tone, pitch and emotion are integrated at the right moments and those closing chapters are just.... powerful.

I will say that there are slow moving areas and with so many characters, building deep bonds wasn't something I was able to accomplish. For me though, it was the accumulation of everything that comes colliding together. How Peyton takes her readers from start to finish. Truly a novel I'd recommend for literary historical fiction lovers.

I enjoyed the narrator of this story.

Night Wherever We Go was a little hard for me to follow due to the switching of the narrators. I might have had an easier time following who was speaking if I read it physically.

✨ Review ✨ Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton; Narrated by Karen Chilton

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. I'm adding this to my favorite books of all time list! Incredible writing and such good historical research.

This book brings us into the world of six enslaved women on a struggling Texas plantation as the women struggle to carve out space for themselves and autonomy from the plantation owners. In one key struggle, the owner hires a "stockman" to get them pregnant, but the women cobble together strategies to prevent pregnancy from taking root.

Over the stretch of the book, we see a variety of ways in which enslaved women found autonomy -- collecting odds & ends, creating clothing for themselves, supplementing the meager rations they received, gathering in the woods at night for spiritual gatherings or frolics, etc. etc. In this way Tracey Rose Peyton uses historical sources impeccably, bringing this world to life. I especially loved how she also brought in Texas historical context, including the possibility of escaping south through Mexico.

While the audio narration was excellent, I actually appreciated reading this in print, so I could pay more careful attention to these women and their lives. (It was also difficult to figure out who was who in audio format with so many characters appearing early on).

This book is beautifully written and while heartbreaking in showing the traumatic hardships enslaved women faced, she so excellently shows the spaces in which women could resist (and the consequences they faced if caught). I do wish the end slowed down just a little as things peak -- it felt a little rushed, but that also showed the chaos and confusion that would surround events like these.

I'm a perma-fan now of Peyton -- I'll read whatever she writes forever more. This was an outstanding debut

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Genre: historical fiction / literary fiction
Location: 1830s(?) Texas plantation
Reminds me of: Tiya Miles and Stephanie Camp's historical writing!
Pub Date: Out now! Jan 3, 2023

Read this if you like:
⭕️ historical fiction about the deep South
⭕️ enslaved women RESISTING
⭕️ incredible contextualization / use of historical sources

Thanks to EccoBooks, Bibliolifestyle, HarperAudio, and #netgalley for advanced copies of this book!

I am torn between 2 and 3 stars. in my opinion, this book was missing a plot. I enjoyed the characters and like the narrator. However, I need a story to have a purpose and I didn't get that with this book. The ending was the worst! I feel like it left the reader hanging for a sequel that will never be. Maybe you are to assume on your own exactly what happened, and I do have my theories. O well, I learned a few herb remedies and enjoyed most of the characters, so it wasn't a total waste of time.

This is a beautiful literary novel that focuses on the darkest of subjects. The book takes place in Texas on a plantation where woman are forced to procreate to breed more slaves as if they are cattle. But the women have bound together and come up with a way to stop pregnancies. The narration was beautiful but I think like most very literary books this probably would have been even more powerful read vs listened to. That said I still highly recommend this one.

This book is a must read. Magic happens when the author juxtaposes her beautiful, lyrical writing with the ugliness and pure evil of slavery. The six women slaves want control over their bodies. Each women gets to tell her story in such a unique way. They are real and human and you get to see their goodness and their flaws. I couldn’t help but smile when they found joy (and revenge) and I was angry (and tearful) when they were hurt. This book is excellent literary & historical fiction. I read this in print and audiobook. Both are absolutely fantastic!

The premise of the story caught my eye but the story itself was confusing and although I was excited about it, it was hard to follow. Sadly, I never knew who was narrating. The book is written mostly in the third person and the characters are so similar they were hard for me to distinguish. There was just no obvious main character to me and that was frustrating.
Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for the audio ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Owners of a struggling Texas plantation decides that the enslaved women producing children can turn things around for them and the enslaved women silently rebel by taking the matter to their own hands.

Sometimes reading historical fiction sends shivers down my spine. Because at some point in time the awful things mentioned in these stories were the horrifying reality for many. I had to keep on reading this one just to know how and when the covert rebellion of these women would be found out, even as I wanted them to get away with it so badly. While the author's choice to not have a single main character for the story showcased the POVs of all the women, I did crave more depth into each character. I also had to listen to the audiobook a bit more carefully just to make sure I knew which person was in the spotlight. Other than that I thought the narration was excellent.

This was a strong and emotional story and I'm excited to see what comes from the author next.

It's the late 1850s in Texas on a plantation and the family is struggling financially. They decide to bring in a breeding male negro to impregnate their female slaves, more babies means more income long term. The women are understandably angry and will do anything to thwart these efforts. 

This was another one of those books where I spent the entire time heart-aching and devastated by the realities of our history in America. The author perfectly demonstrates how the slave owners treated these rich, complex humans as nothing more than stock animals simply because of their color. The focus here is on the women as not only workers in the field but as wet nurses for the master's children at the detriment to their own, the forced breeding with strange traveling men and then being ripped from their children. I had so many emotions reading this one, my heartbreak and anger were overwhelming.

I did this one on audio and enjoyed the narrator.

Thanks to Harper Audio for gifted access via Netgalley. All opinions above are my own.

I read this book in 2 setting, I absolutely lives every page of it, Tracey Peyton is one of my new favorites, this book talks about life on a plantation, the master I sent as violent as some but he is losing what he has so he desiderate to try and make new slaves by brining in a, so called stud negros man to make his women slaves pregnant, the plan dozen quite work as he plans, this book is good on every page, I fully recommend this book to all who love Historical Fictio. I recieved this book from Net Galley, in return for my honest review, I give Tracey 5 stars

This is filled with powerful writing and fantastic, strong female characters. This book was an intimate look into the lives of six enslaved women on a struggling cotton plantation.

I was blown away by this audiobook. Karen Chilton gives a phenomenal voice to these women and this story. What an incredible debut by Tracey Rose Peyton. The depths she went to tell this story were endless.

Told in a staggering multi character narrative, we follow Nan, Junie, Serah, Patience, Alice and Lulu through their oppressive indentureship on the Harlow plantation. Lizzie and Charles Harlow, who the women have taken to calling The Lucy’s in private (as in Lucifer) are running a failing farm. Charles especially is in a constant state of insecurity and fear. Thinking abundance will boost productivity, he begins to bring in “breeders” for the women to lie with and reproduce.

The strong-willed women on this Texas plantation will go to great lengths to keep that from happening. They use the power of spirituality, lore and herbal remedies to keep their time of the month coming regularly and as time goes by, Charles becomes increasingly unstable, going as far as waiting and watching as they copulate to get his way.

The strength in these women was astounding. This book is filled with heavy subject matter. It’s heartbreaking. It’s maddening! Through all these women are put through, they never give up their longing for a better life, one that they can control themselves.