Title of the Book: West with the Night
 Author: Beryl Markham
 # of Pages: 294
 Star Rating: ☆☆
 Review:

                Beryl Markham writes a very personal rendition of her own life in West with the Night. Her story begins with a basic background story of how she ended up coming to Kenya in the continent of Africa, and then gets straight into the main story. She finds that one of her good friends, him also being a pilot, has gone missing and that other people aren’t specifically going out and trying to find him. Unfortunately, once this problem of finding Woody is eventually resolved, this is where the main story ends; the story itself still continues, but it is horrifically boring and never returns to the characters in the beginning, making me wonder why they were there in the first place.

                Although I really do not care for this book or this author, it was a unique book. I thought that the title was unique and that the writing style was unique as well. West with the Night sounds exactly how you would expect it to in a book about a pilot. Unfortunately, the book never truly goes into the meaning of why it is called West with the Night. I wish that the book went into more detail about the title of the book and even the aftermath of finding Markham’s friend, Woody. To me, the book itself is just missing so much with details and resources for a literary non-fiction story. And the writing style of Beryl Markham is alright, but leaves a lot to be desired. Her writing is filled with run-on sentences which is personally annoying to me, and she put in so many “details” that had nothing to do with what I thought was the storyline.

                I would see how some people would like this book, but only if you were into pilots, planes, friendship, horses, and pure-hearted adventure (all combined into one single storyline, of course). But I am personally only interested in some of those things, and certainly not all together in one book. I hope that if you’re reading this, and if you are interested in reading this book, you either turn away or feel very strongly about reading this book. I truly believe that you will need it.