
Member Reviews

All Nights Die Young touches on incredibly important and valid topics: trauma, addiction, abuse, and the search for love and belonging. The novel doesn't shy away from difficult realities, and I appreciate the author's willingness to dive deep into the darker corners of human experience. These are themes that matter and deserve to be explored.
That said, I struggled with the execution. The narrative felt disjointed to me — scenes often felt loosely connected, making it difficult to fully immerse myself in Lincoln's journey. I never quite "bought" into the characters, especially the central relationship between Lincoln and Derrick. While I understand that addiction often defies logic and creates unhealthy bonds, I personally found the emotional connection between them too flimsy to sustain the weight of the story. As a result, I had a hard time fully investing in Lincoln’s fate, despite wanting to.
Overall, while the book addresses significant and sensitive topics with bravery, I found the storytelling lacked the cohesion and character depth needed to fully resonate with me.

Mario Luxxor is a very emotional storyteller which was one of the things I liked most about the book, but the pacing was so slow and dragged out that there were parts of the book where I wasn't as interested in the characters. I thought that Lincoln and Derrick's relationship was so heartbreaking and I enjoyed the vulnerability of the characters with the themes discussed in this book.

Raw and desperately feeling. It's not at all what I was expecting and all for the better. It's definitely a unique style of personally pulling that painful and realistic agony and endless decisions out of you. How you read and wish Lincoln just chose another option, didn't meet that person ect. All Nights Die Young is an apt description by itself. And Kenny, Kenny is a character haunting the narrative as much as it haunts Derrick.
I'm glad for the ending I got to read, it's true, honest and gut wretching. It's what I hoped for

I could not put this down... All Nights Die Young follows two main characters: Lincoln and Derrick. A queer tragic "love story" that will leave you broken longing for a true happy ending. We follow Lincoln an aspiring writer from Mexico who works during the day as Spiderman at Times Square and at night a busboy at a club in Hell's Kitchen where he meets Derrick and from that night hell breaks loose.
Topics of constant substance abuse, the queer night life, sexual assault and emotional abuse, we are thrown into a tale of queer life trying to root for Lincoln. Please go read this emotional heavy and let me know what you think!