Hi guys I'm back did you miss me? Sorry about the hiatus I love you all and missed you terribly but not enough to come back for a while sorry.
Ok, so I read What Feasts at Night which is the sequel to What Moves the Dead and it was...alright. I think sequels are notoriously not always a hit whether it's books or movies so as far as sequels go it's not that bad. But I didn't love it the way I loved the first one. The exposition was a little confusing. I wasn't sure why exactly they were all there at the spring house in the first place or why they were fixing it up but whateva. The point is they were there for spooky stuff to happen. I get that.
To answer your burning question. A ghost. A ghost is what feasts at night.
Ok so, Easton, Angus, and Miss Potter are all in Gallacia, and ka is talking shit about Gallacia the whole time and it's actually so funny. Like it's gray and it's cold and it's dismal but we love it because, well, we're not sure, we just do. Easton is forever making fun of/complaining about the place and I love it. The very first sentence cracked me up because it is a straight-up dig on the place. But in all seriousness, it's really cool to be in Gallacia and get to explore it after how much Easton talked about it in the first book.
So anyway Easton and Angus go the this house in Gallacia that this guy Codrin was taking care of while they were away during the first book and while they lived in Paris. Anyway, the guy is dead. Spoiler alert. Calm down it happened on page 17. The weird thing is that no one will tell them what happened. Angus even says in a town this gossipy the people would've told him a bunch of differing stories if they didn't know the real story but the fact that they simply won't tell him anything is a big red flag that something hinky is going on.
[insert clever transition here] There's an old legend about the moroi which is a ghost lady that will sit on your chest in your dream while you're sleeping and kill you. Turns out, of course, that it's not just a legend, it's real and Bors is dying from it right now! The audio narration was great with the choking sounds in that moment. That is to say, it was awful to listen to.
The best part of the book for me was the spooky, dreamscape journey that Easton was going through after the moroi came for ka. Easton wanted to check on the horses, and when ka touched the horse its skin was like sloughing off and sticking to Easton's hands and face. Ka is then sent back to when ka was in the war in Bulgaria and it's sort of like a memory/dream of that time. While Easton is fighting the moroi in kan dream ka has this realization that the Moroi is not evil, but instead unsettled and has no rest. Which as we all know is the main reason ghosts don't move on. Ka kills her in the dream, and after ka recovers, ka has the town's priest go and look up information in the records the church has to find information on this woman who was the moroi who was buried under the house. While they don't learn anything about her, they do learn that there was a nobleman who owned the house, like 140 years ago, who had lots of female servants with children who had an "unnamed father." So. You know. Anyway, the moroi killed him so the only thing we know about her is she lived more than 140 years ago
The resolution left much to be desired as well. We didn't really get a resolution or closure for the moroi or rather the woman she used to be or even an explanation for her actions. Technically, the resolution is that Easton heals up, no one died and Bors (such a sweetie poo) wants to be the new caretaker. The end. So not a whole lot of plot and the best part was the scary part which was in the last quarter of the book. I think overall it's fine but I wouldn't recommend it as hard as I did the first one.
-Stay Spooky,
Ceraya 👻
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