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Casey and I agree THE NIGHT GUEST is some damned good creepy shit. I started it before bed last night (which, yeah, was a CHOICE), read until I was too tired to carry on, and finished it over breakfast this morning.

#12Booksof2024 @Andrew65

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All my books were strange and good this week, love that. This one is my favorite though, I even added it to my #Top24of24 list!

Iōunn‘s story pulled me in from the first page and didn‘t let go until I finished it some hours later.

Iōunn wakes up exhausted every morning. She has no idea what causes this until her fancy new pedometer watch reveals that she‘s walking over forty thousand steps at night. From there things start spiraling in her life which seems so ordinary but isn‘t.

I am not sure about the ending but I loved this contemporary and atmospheric creepy story.

Thank you so much for the lovely #jolabokaflod package @Captivatedbybooks ! This book sounds very fun and I will be indulging in all of this chocolate! Thank you!! 📚🍫❄️

Thank you @JessieKB for the lovely #jolabokaflod gifts! I've been wanting to read this book. I can't wait to curl up and read with the hot chocolate tonight.

@MaleficentBookDragon
#JS2024 #jolabokaflodswap2024

Holy shirtballs 😱 😱 😱

I read this in one sitting. The growing tension and pacing are so well crafted. Frustration at the treatment of women by the medical establishment turns into creeping unease as you learn more and more (but never everything) about what is happening. So so good.

I see this book reviewed here and noticed that either I didn't review it here or my review never "aired" back in September.

Anyway, I absolutely loved it. The translation and narration by Mary Robinette-Kowal are excellent.

It's creepy and atmospheric and I still wonder what the end was about.

My email to @BarbaraBB about this book when I finished it last night:

1. The English translation is really well done.
2. The use of negative space was incredible.
3. The suspense was superb.

4. I didn‘t get the ending at all.

Two pages in and I‘m already finding this all too relatable!!

CREEPY!!!

3.75⭐
⬗ What a peculiar little tale that kept me entranced for all of its 162 minutes. Although, this is yet another horror book with an ambiguous ending🤔🤔🤔
⬗ The narration and translation by Mary Robinette Kowal were fantastic.

This might be my last book for #HauntedShelf. The Night Guest was a really good thriller. I read it in one sitting as it's only 194 pages. The pacing is excellent. It slowly builds up the tension until it has you by the throat. 4.5 stars.
@PuddleJumper @OriginalCyn620

Book 87📚 2.8⭐️

Ok weeeeeeird.. I‘m not even really sure what happened at the end but I was intrigued by the first half. Would have been a higher rating if there was a bit more clarity🍷

TW - lots of dead cats 🐈‍⬛

Super small chapters, some just one line. Finished in under 2 hours.

Thanks to #netgalley for access to this audiobook. I liked the initial concept more than the execution. The chapters - each audibly named - are very short and the naming makes for a disruptive experience

September 2024 Wrap Up (PART TWO)

• Curvy Girl Summer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The Night Guest ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The Survival Of Molly Southbourne ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Make A Scene ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Linghun ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Sis, Is He Suitable ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The Trouble With Out Love ⭐️⭐️
• The Practice, The Horizon, And The Chain ⭐️⭐️

A good story.

Read for reading challenges

3.75/5

I was excited to listen to this based on its summary, but it was not at all what I was hoping for. There are an insane amount of chapters. There were so many times where I spent more time listening to the number of the chapter than the action within the chapter. I was also rather put off by the ending as well. It has nothing to do with what happened exactly, it just seemed too unrelated to the story in some ways, and was rather abrupt as well.

With the everyday terrors of chronic pain, unhelpful doctors, sleepwalking, and sleazy exes giving way to something far more sinister…This chillingly paced horror will leave you unsettled indeed. I do wish the ending wasn‘t quite so obscure, but I think fans of The Last House on Needless Street will dig this one!

An espresso martini suits this book bc phew. 😮‍💨 What a wild, unsettling little ride this was! I enjoyed this immensely. It was fast-paced, propelling you forward with so much momentum (and dread), purposefully leaving so much up to the reader‘s fearful imagination in such a capable way. Each chapter in this novella ratcheted up the tension — I truly flew this.

My thanks to Tor Publishing for this ARC.

Smoothly translated from Icelandic, this spooky novella makes for an absolutely compulsive listen! It opens with narrator Iounn waking up more and more exhausted each day. Taking advice from friends and family and consulting doctors, she‘s desperate for answers that would explain her sore muscles, bruises and what seems to be blood… Short chapters and mounting menace had me easily justifying walking just a little farther while listening!

It was so well done and I hated it SO MUCH.

“There is nothing in the world more tragic than an undeserved hangover.”

This novella has been out for a few years, but I just got an ARC of the audio and WOW that was a weird flight with this as the audio 😂😂