What Feasts at Night

In my opinion, it wasn't quite as excellent as the first book, but that's a high bar, and this was still quite enjoyable. I think this would have been truly phenomenal as a third book with a mild "twist", rather than a second book.

I probably can't add anything that hasn't already been said, but here is my 5-star rating to jack up the average.

I was hesitant to pick this one up initially because so many sequels for books that could easily have been a one-off tend to try too hard and just lose focus. I'm definitely glad that I decided to give it a go finally, because I was quite surprised by it.

The horror aspects of this book were not quite as heavy as the first, but I didn't mind at all due to the fact that you really got to know more about Easton and their PTSD issues from the war. Easton has such great banter and it adds a perfect layer of light humor to the undertones of the book.

I'll definitely be reading the third one when it gets released and would recommend this to anyone that enjoyed the first.

Alex Easton is such a great character and I was very happy getting to read more about them. This book is a little less creepy and a lot more Easton than its predecessor.

I didn't get into the main story much, and the nightmare-ish qualities weren't what I was feeling like. But I loved the casual countryside living talk, and the ways the characters interacted.

This book is a sequel to What Moves the Dead. It was a little unexpected (to me at least!) that there'd be a sequel to something that was a riff on the Fall of the House of Usher--where do you even go from there? Apparently, another mystery! This time it follows the same set of characters (Easton, Angus, and Eugenia Potter), but instead is set at Easton's childhood lodge in Gallacia.

What I liked about this book was the way it much more tightly wove together parallels of Easton's war-related PTSD and the horror of dreams. While What Moves the Dead felt more like several unrelated stories grafted together, this was a more cohesive novella.

(If I had any petty wishes, it would be to give Eugenia Potter more of a role here. She gets some good quotes, but is ultimately a background character that almost didn't need to be there. I also wish there had been a little bit more worldbuilding about Gallacia. Even for being set there, it felt like there was little elaboration on the fictional country past what we had already learned.)