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What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier Book 2) Kindle Edition

by T. Kingfisher (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Enter a cold, silent forest and find out what feasts at night in this new gothic tale from bestselling and award-winning author T. Kingfisher, set in the world of What Moves the Dead.

*A very special hardcover edition, featuring a foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.*

After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their home country, Gallacia.

In theory, one can find relaxation in even the coldest and dampest of Gallacian autumns, but when Easton arrives, they find the caretaker dead, the lodge in disarray, and the grounds troubled by a strange, uncanny silence. The villagers whisper that a breath-stealing monster from folklore has taken up residence in Easton’s home. Easton knows better than to put too much stock in local superstitions, but they can tell that something is not quite right in their home. . . or in their dreams.

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Frightening Fantasy and Horror with Heart from Bestselling Author T. Kingfisher A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” A haunting Southern Gothic that explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family. A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm’s “The Goose Girl,” rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic. A tale about a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways. This isn’t the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince. It’s the one where she kills him.

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“A grotesque romp! It takes up residence beneath your skin and refuses to leave."―Caitlin Starling, USA Today bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence

"Thoroughly creepy and utterly enjoyable."―Publishers Weekly

“Creepy, claustrophobic, and completely entertaining, What Moves the Dead left me delightfully repulsed. I adored this book!”―Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows

“T. Kingfisher spins biting wit, charm and terror into a tale that will make your skin crawl. Poe would be proud!”―Brom, author of Slewfoot

“Dissects the heart of Poe’s most famous tale and finds a wholly new mythology beating inside it. …Pure fun.”―Andy Davidson, author of The Boatman's Daughter

“What Moves the Dead is a must-read, period.”―Jordan Shiveley, author of Hot Singles In Your Area

“A gothic delight!"―Lucy A. Snyder, author of Sister, Maiden, Monster

“A fluid technicolor reimagining of Poe's "House of Usher" that takes no prisoners. . . Not to be missed."―Brian Evenson, author of Last Days

"Perfectly hair-raising in all the right ways."―Premee Mohamed, author of Beneath the Rising

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About the Author

T. KINGFISHER (she/her)writes fantasy, horror, and occasional oddities, including Nettle & Bone, What Moves the Dead, and A House with Good Bones. Under a pen name, she also writes bestselling children's books. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, dogs, and chickens who may or may not be possessed. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0C1X7WRLF
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tor Nightfire (February 13, 2024)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 13, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 145 pages
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T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon, an author from North Carolina. In another life, she writes children's books and weird comics. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy and the Eisner, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, Nebula, Alfie, WSFA, Coyotl and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections.

This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups. Her work includes multiple fairy-tale retellings and odd little stories about elves and goblins.

When she is not writing, she is probably out in the garden, trying to make eye contact with butterflies.

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Ariel H
5.0 out of 5 stars I didn't know how Easton's story could continue
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2024
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When I read What Moves the Dead, I loved the retelling of Usher so much (more than the original Poe story), but seeing there was a sequel to it made me cautious. I wasn't sure what kind of a story could be told after the retelling is done. Turns out, Easton carrying on with the trauma of Usher's fall in their already-traumatized history made such a compelling beginning to a series. So in this series, we get to see Easton in an Usher-esque story BUT they're able to write a new story on their own. I love seeing the narrator of Usher try to move on and still get sucked up in another Gothic drama. Seeing the retelling move on is so cool!

ALSO, this book is incredibly well written. I love Easton's development, I love the subtle humor about gender and norms, I love all the characters and the environment and the MOTHS! This book is just so good!! I wish I could tell Kingfisher how much I hate her because she's such a great writer. And I know this book has just been published, but I'm dying for another in the series. I need twelve Sworn Soldier books at least.
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Kimberly A Baumgartner
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice follow up
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2024
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Really enjoyed this second story in the Sworn Soldier series. Nice and creepy like the first installment. I'm really enjoying the work T. Kingfisher has been putting out.
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mvd
5.0 out of 5 stars A gentle touch on a primal fear
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2024
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This is not quite either a horror story or an adventure story. It is well-written, intermittently funny, and, about half-way through, evokes fear so primordial as to chill almost anyone. I found myself surprised that it so nearly described one of my own nightmares. Maybe it is one of yours, too.

The protagonist, Alex Easton, is from a country on the edge of Europe, and on the margin between genders. They're a soldier, and where they're from soldiers are their own gender. Retired now, they are still partly back in the war. On the edge of everything, they tend to meet other creatures also on the edge, and to sympathize with them. (Their language has its own pronouns for people on that margin, but it would be confusing to use them here.) Spending time in Alex's kindly, funny, somewhat gloomy mind is the best part of the story.

The plot is resolved neatly and logically, wholly within the rules and conditions Kingfisher lays down. Unusually, though, it is oddly downbeat. What could have been a triumph of the "I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me" sort is instead a little sad. Alex has sympathy for other creatures on the edge.
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K. Bird Lincoln
5.0 out of 5 stars Alex and Angus head home to Gallacia and terrifying night time hauntings
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2024
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Disclosure: I am a rabid T. Kingfisher fan. I read all her stuff. I love all her stuff.

Our favorite Sworn Soldier returns go var home country of Gallacia with trust Angus by var side in this second installment– still shell shocked from war and from the mycelium doings of the first book.

Yes, “var” is not a typo. If you have trouble with matter-of-fact treatment of non-binary characters, don’t read this.

If you like dry humor, big-hearted heroes, gray-haired no nonsense amateur mushroom scientists from Britain, slow-thinking but wicked chess rural peasants and Finnish doctors as likely to recommend a sauna as foul smelling medicine for a likely-supernaturally induced cough, read on.

Alex comes home to a hunting lodge in Gallacia to find the caretaker dead, and rumors of a supernatural haunting flying about the village. Ms. Potter arrives for some mushroom-hunting, and all of a sudden Alex is having terrifying dreams.

Per usual, Kingfisher excels at showing cranky, true-hearted characters just getting on with the business of life after various traumas. Alex’s self-deprecating humor is a veneer over courage and competency and a history of killing in a war. There is a lovely mix of gothic terror, folktales, and mushroom trivia in this series, and here its more of a Balkan flavor.

My only quibble is it ended too soon. I love being in Alex’s world, and wished that not only Angus and Ms. Potter could find companionship, but also Alex. Fingers crossed for more of Alex/Angus’s terrifying adventures.
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LA in Dallas
4.0 out of 5 stars Alex Easton returns
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2024
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What Feasts at Night is the second of T. Kingfisher's Sworn Soldier books. It is thus the return of Alex Easton, who is the sworn soldier after whom the series is named. It is also Alex's return to kan homeland Gallacia. (Remember that Gallacian has special pronouns, ka/kan, for soldiers.) Although Alex returns to kan homeland in What Feasts at Night, Gallacia is not kan home. If home is where the heart is, then Alex's home is Paris.

Indeed, the book begins with Alex riding through Gallacia and complaining, which is something of a Gallacian core competence, Gallacia being a nation uniquely suited to the pursuit of complaint as a full-time occupation. Alex and kan batman Angus are on their way to a hunting lodge that Alex owns, having inherited it some years ago. Alex's principle complaint is that ka doesn't want to be here. ka would rather be in Paris, and ka claims that Angus blackmailed kan into this visit. Angus of course stoutly denies this, then proceeds to reapply the blackmail. As we learned in What Moves the Dead, Angus admires Eugenia Potter. Mrs Potter (Beatrix Potter's aunt) is a formidable Englishwoman and avid mycologist. Angus leaned on Alex to invite her to visit kan lodge in Gallacia in order to experience Gallacian misery, molds, and mushrooms firsthand. Potter saved Alex and Angus from a horrible fate at the Usher mansion in Ruravia, so Angus argues that they owe her gratitude.

This plan runs into some hitches, and a plot ensues. You will not be surprised to learn that the plot involves sinister things wot feast at night.

For my money the plot serves mainly as a vehicle to illuminate Alex's character. Alex is a retired soldier. Ka fought in a war with Bulgaria. Although Gallacia is fictional, "Alex’s war is a very real one, the Serbian– Bulgarian War of 1885." as Kingfisher informs us in her Acknowledgments. She adds, "I can’t possibly do it justice in a paragraph, but it’s worth reading about if you ever want an object lesson in how not to invade Bulgaria. (Please do not invade Bulgaria under any circumstances.)" I'll keep that in mind next time I get the urge to invade Bulgaria.

The ambiguity of the preposition in the phrase "fought with Bulgaria" is intentional. As a result of these experiences Alex suffers from Soldier's Heart, an old and more evocative name for what we now call PTSD. The events of What Feasts at Night give Alex cause to display extraordinary courage and generosity, in kan characteristically understated way. To my mind, kan debt to Mrs Potter is paid forward with interest.

If the author were anyone other than Kingfisher, I would describe What Feasts at Night as an unusual combination of sensitivity and humor. But it is not unusual for her -- this is what Kingfisher does!

I thank NetGalley and Tor Nightfire for an advance reader copy of What Feasts at Night. This review expresses my honest opinions.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
Reviewed in Canada on March 6, 2024
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If you liked "What moves the dead" then you should absolutely adore this novel! In my opinion, "what feasts at night" is even better than the first novel! It has great voice through our protagonist Alex, it is funny, it is spooky, it is a thrilling book. One of my new favourites!
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Rachel Green (author)
5.0 out of 5 stars Good old fashioned ghost story.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 24, 2024
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I really enjoyed this, and it comfortably follows on from the first novel. Well envisioned characters and a good plot which kept me riveted.
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Mindy Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars Deliciously creepy
Reviewed in Australia on February 16, 2024
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A perfect little horror novel. Kingfisher effortlessly ratchets up the tension and her descriptions of bodily horror are all too believable. I hope there’s many more of the adventures of Easton and Angus to come.
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Anne V.
5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant
Reviewed in Canada on February 19, 2024
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Despite the cover illustration, the horses are all ok at the end.

That said, this is another brilliantly eerie novella set in a slightly unreal bit of Eastern Europe that is so completely conceived that it seems but another train station away.
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Keira Louise Katie Ward
3.0 out of 5 stars 3 stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2024
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I was thrilled for this release after really enjoying What Moves The Dead and I excitedly awaited the return of Alex, Hod, Miss Potter and Angus.

Kingfisher as always, created a flawless setting. Their atmospheric and detailed descriptions transported me deep into the wintry Gallacian Forests and inside the creepy hunting lodge. Kingfisher really has a talent for creating endearing and likeable characters, with the return of our favourite foursome and the introduction of several new personalities. I loved the sweet and mild mannered Bors and even the mean old Widow had a likeable quality adding humour and sass to the story. I was completely invested in the fates of each and every character in this novel and that kept me engaged until the end.

Unfortunately, this is where my praise dwindles. Kingfisher is one of my most beloved authors, so I am sad to say that the storyline and plot for What Feasts At Night just didn’t live up to its predecessor. Far too little actually happened to progress the story and the threat was passive at best until the very end. Unfortunately there were no real suspenseful moments for me either and the conclusion left me disappointed and underwhelmed.

That being said, I will still immediately buy anything Kingfisher writes and I still maintain my love for this author and their books. This particular book just wasn’t my favourite.
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