Court rated The Night Guest: 5 stars

The Night Guest by Mary Robinette Kowal, Hildur Knutsdottir
Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you …
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Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you …

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground …

He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury some seventeen years …
Around page 238 he says something like "nothing is for certain, you could die tomorrow", and I thought, you're right, and there's other books I actually enjoy reading, so I stopped. Sorry to my therapist.
Around page 238 he says something like "nothing is for certain, you could die tomorrow", and I thought, you're right, and there's other books I actually enjoy reading, so I stopped. Sorry to my therapist.
This has some really fun background and a really interesting concept, but I think it's for a younger reader. Would highly recommend to queer, especially trans teens
This has some really fun background and a really interesting concept, but I think it's for a younger reader. Would highly recommend to queer, especially trans teens
Loved him putting into light some of the additional horrors of pregnancy and childbirth that are intentionally hidden, as well as the everyday horrors we put women and girls through. The witchcraft was interestingly handled as neither completely threatening nor completely safe.
Ove does grow and change, and there are nice parts about found family, but he never reflects on his rude and sometimes violent behavior. I mean he throws a hurt cat into a snowbank and it almost froze to death until someone else rescued it!