I was skeptical as to the premise but it soon won me over. It had plenty of set up and pay off that good horror needs. A nagging part of me thought that it was going to be too formulaic–sure it's got the A.I. but beyond that is it a generic haunting story? The answer is very much no. At least for me. I thought I knew what was going to happen next but the book still had tricks to pull on me.
I don't know if it will be as enthralling the second time through were I to do a reread, but the first time through was delightful enough.
Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensation tale …
Boring. Uninspired. In some places objectively stupid.
1 star
Not horror, just icky. Not dark, just with mental illness.
First story is about two people with obvious mental illness performing some form of BDSM relationship, but its just icky tasks. Completely unbelievable in the way the characters wrote and they both sounded the same; so much flourish in what is supposed to be casual personal emails, it almost feels like both of the characters are authors. Or just one self indulgent author.
Second one is about yet another person with mental illness only this time there's religion involved. It had such an obvious plot hole that I was literally shocked into silence; I went back and read it several times to make sure I wasn't missing something and nope.
Final story is about someone who you could have a reasonable argument of having mental illness because no one would do that. That's not how people are like. Ridiculous. With …
Not horror, just icky. Not dark, just with mental illness.
First story is about two people with obvious mental illness performing some form of BDSM relationship, but its just icky tasks. Completely unbelievable in the way the characters wrote and they both sounded the same; so much flourish in what is supposed to be casual personal emails, it almost feels like both of the characters are authors. Or just one self indulgent author.
Second one is about yet another person with mental illness only this time there's religion involved. It had such an obvious plot hole that I was literally shocked into silence; I went back and read it several times to make sure I wasn't missing something and nope.
Final story is about someone who you could have a reasonable argument of having mental illness because no one would do that. That's not how people are like. Ridiculous. With a ridiculous message trying to sound profound.
Each story succeeded only in pissing me off by their respective end and finishing only out of spite. Its hard to pick a worst. I honestly reset my brain at the start of each one, went in wanting to like it. I kept thinking, hoping that the author would give something more. Something more that what was obviously going to happen in each story. Something horror more than just the occasional "ew".
The follow-up to T. Kingfisher’s bestselling gothic novella, What Moves the Dead .
Retired soldier …
Real thoughts
3 stars
Content warning
Spoilers inbound
Okay I'll be blunt: I wanted What Feasts At Night to be the moths. Last book was fungi, next moths. But it was an annoyingly tantalizing theme dangled just out of reach for the entire book. dWe got one scene where a living but partially consumed horse collapses into moths, and it was the best scene of the book. I honestly don't even get the theme of moths and I don't think it was explained. If it was just some kind of misdirect then barf.
"It was ghost" was disappointing, but still enjoyable. Haunting books are okay but I was hoping for something special like What Moves the Dead, but I got a pretty enjoyable but generic haunting tale.
"It was a dream" is the bit I am vigorously forcing out of my memory because the book up until the point was doing just fine. Forgetting it is doing the story a courtesy.
I really hope the next one is more like What Moves the Dead in the respects I gave here.
Obviously as the Perfect Person and not just some guy, my opinion matters greatly. Thanks for reading.
