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Mary Robinette Kowal, Hildur Knutsdottir: The Night Guest (2024, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík …

Review of 'Night Guest' on 'Goodreads'

This story was fast-paced. Unfortunately, that was the only real positive it had going for it. While the prose wasn't bad, it lacked a clear, compelling voice. The twists were boring. The "horror" was there, I guess, but it wasn't so much scary as slightly unsettling. Overall, it was a fine enough short story that suffered by being longer than a few pages.