What Feasts at Night

I loved this book and I think it is a great sequel to the first one, although it does not surpass it. I love Easton as a character and Miss Potter, and loved to see them both return. The new characters introduced were also great, The Widow especially. The way the story was told was good and made it really suspenseful. The vibes were also immaculate. The superstitious things that the Widow was going I enjoyed thoroughly. It was definitely less creepy than the first book, but fungi will do that to you. 

T. Kingfisher is one of my favorite authors and I'm always looking for the latest or have a few things from her backlist. What Feasts at Night is a quite good follow up to What Moves the Dead, which is a retelling of Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. 

In “Feasts” Alex Easton returns home to Gallacia to find the family's hunting lodge in disrepair and the caretaker no more. The feel is very true to older horror tales, like Dracula, where the “peasants” know the score and the score is Restless Spirits and folk magic/remedies and generally not monkeying around with things best left unmonkeyed around with. This is the book for when you want to crawl into bed at the end of the day and feel safe and warm while things are not all right on the page. 

If I could ask the author anything, it would be why the animal skeletons? I'm not just talking about this book, but a very recurring element of Kingfisher's stories. Often the bones are, um, alive? The author clearly loves animals and so pets have a great chance in these books, but sometimes the pet is a bone dog. You understand. 

In this case, it's not a dog, and the instance is really disturbing, although for you pet people, I'll say it's okay. 

This series will always have a place on my shelves because this style of story takes me make to teen me. A story for the thick anthologies of old horror I used to borrow from the library. In the case of What Moves the Dead, my not insignificant fascination with Poe. 

Rating: 3.41 leaves out of 5-Characters: 3.5/5 -Cover: 3.75/5-Story: 3/5-Writing: 5/5Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Gothic, HisFic-Fantasy: 4/5-Horror: 1/5-Gothic: 4/5-HisFic: 3/5Type: AudiobookWorth?: YesHated Disliked Meh It Was Okay Liked Really Liked LovedWant to thank Netgalley and publishers for giving me the chance to read this book.This books, in my opinion, was better than the first. The first one was based on The Fall of the House of Usher and the story isn't my fav to begin with and has been done SO MANY TIMES but this one was nice. I hadn't heard about the lores and myths before so I was more attentive. That being said thought the story was fine it wasn't great and Alex is just... a pain 60% of the time.

Kingfisher is one of my favorite authors; I love the way that she writes. I especially love how Kingfisher writes horses and her other characters.

This is such a well done 'ghost story' and I love the way she wrote dreams. Miss Potter's reaction to Easton's assumption that she didn't believe in supernatural things because she's a scientist was most excellent as were her attempts at Galatian. The widow's character was also so well done. Loved the commentary on the doctor, people either call him for everything or nothing because he might as well be an undertaker or an omen of death, was fantastic.The way she wrote what the characters experienced was also amazing; the way Easton's chest felt, the silence in kan ears.Loved how Kingfisher wrote with pronouns too.

First and foremost, I genuinely love how the series reads. You don't have to read the previous to understand the next book, though it will offer some extra insight into how the characters are and why they do or say certain things.

I love the small and manageable story; it got to the point with little effort and kept you wanting to read until you were finished. And I was a little sad when the book ended! I love how you think there's something paranormal happening, but there's actually a scientific reason behind it.

I didn't like that the copy I received had a bad format. It seems that for every set of 10-15 pages, the format would change from a regular paragraph to a sentence on a line, then two to three words the next, and then back to a full sentence. It really pulled me out of the story itself because I had to keep trying to reread to understand what was happening. Once and a while there were random 0s and 1s as well which threw me out of the atmosphere of the novella too. I hope by the time the novella is published that this is cleared up.

Because of this issue, I found that the novella is less engaging than its predecessor. I would definitely like to the final version before I make the call officially on how engaging.

It's good for a spooky read, and it's good if you need to pad your reading challenge! I would recommend it!

A spooky dark forest with a questionable house and locals that don’t like the people staying at the house is exactly what this book needed. The fact that the narrator is Alex and they are in their home country again just makes it all better! And that is only the first little bit of the book! The people Alex has around them and the investigation really made me enjoy this book and experience. I can’t believe I almost didn’t read this duology.