What Feasts at Night

, #2

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English language

Published Feb. 13, 2024 by Titan Books.

ISBN:
978-1-80336-969-3
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THE 2025 HUGO AND LOCUS AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVELLA The hair-raising follow-up to the award-winning What Moves the Dead. Alex Easton returns to their home country of Gallacia, only to be confronted by a strange new horror. When Alex Easton travels to Gallacia as a favour to their friend, Britain's foremost mycologist Miss Potter, they find their home empty, the caretaker dead, and the grounds blanketed by an uncanny silence. The locals won't talk about what happened to the caretaker. None of them will set foot on the grounds. Whispers of an unearthly breath-stealing creature from Gallacian folklore don't trouble practical Easton. But as their sleep is increasingly disturbed by vivid nightmares and odd happenings perplex the household, they are forced to confront the possibility that there is more to the old folk stories than they'd like to believe. A dark shadow hangs over Easton's house. And nobody will …

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reviewed What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher (Sworn Soldier, #2)

Creepy

Alex Eaton is back.

After their ordeal at the Usher Mansion in the last book, they took a brief sojourn in Paris, and at the start of this instalment, they're returning to his native Gallacia to spend some time at their family's hunting lodge. They and Angus have also invited Miss Potter to join them and study mushrooms.

Creepy stuff ensues.

And it IS pretty creepy. Not really too scary, and it's a slow burn, but once it got going, I was hooked. It's also nice to see a non-binary main character whose gender identity is there, but not a major part of the plot. It just feels... normal. It's nice. :-)

reviewed What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher (Sworn Soldier, #2)