Absurd Sage reviewed What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
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.
