GoodReads Monday

This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.

Seeing as tomorrow is Halloween I thought I would look for a spookish cover for my post today. This one is maybe not exactly spooky, but it is a tad on the creepy side, just like its predecessor. This cover almost makes me not want to read this book, just because I don’t want to keep looking at it. But I liked the first book, What Moves the Dead, so I am willing to give this one a try, creepy cover notwithstanding.

What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher

Publication Date: February 13, 2023

Summary from Goodreads:

Retired soldier, Alex Easton, returns in a horrifying new adventure.

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.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day! Creepy books will make that perfect gift for your loved one! Just kidding.

Do you have this one on your TBR? What do you think of that cover? Until next time…