Title & Author: What Feast at Night by T.Kingfisher
Published by: Tor Publishing Group | Tor Nightfire
Pub Date: Feb 13 2024
Genre: General Fiction (Adult) | Horror | LGBTQIAP+
Pages: 160
Date Read: Aug 22 2024
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Thank you Netgalley, author, and the publishers for allowing me the opportunity to read this book early.
I am a huge fan of T.Kingfisher and request her books the second I see them on Netgalley. This woman can write and writes well, and generally her novellas are everything I want in a story. They’re short, but the story isn’t lacking (generally). This one though suffers from a lot of fillers that I found annoying. The constant use of (), repeating of information, and there was not enough horror. Though when we are given the scary bits, they are terrifying. Sadly, though, the ending was very anticlimactic and not really scary at all. It wasn’t tense, and fell flat.
I loved this exploration into folklore. I think that I had heard of moroi before, but really didn’t know much about them and wouldn’t have minded if there were some real life accounts thrown into the story to act as proof of what was happening.
Alex, Angus and Miss Potter are amazing characters and I hope T.Kingfisher writes more featuring them.