The Night Guest

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185 sidor

På English

Publicerades 2024 av Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:
978-1-250-32204-3
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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 awake at night.

Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven't revealed any cause.

When she talks to friends and family about it, the refrain is the same ― have you tried eating better? exercising more? establishing a nighttime routine? She tries to follow their advice, buying everything from vitamins to sleeping pills to a step-counting watch. Nothing helps.

Until one night Iðunn falls asleep with the watch on, and wakes up to find she’s walked over 40,000 steps in the night . . .

What is happening when she’s asleep? Why is she waking up with increasingly disturbing injuries? And why won’t anyone believe her?

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recenserade The Night Guest av Mary Robinette Kowal

A scalpel of a story

A ghost story, a possession. Someone is breaking into her body while she sleeps and doing things. She wakes with aches, bruises. Pets are missing in the neighborhood. It builds quickly and it ends poetically.

recenserade The Night Guest av Mary Robinette Kowal

None

A woman wakes up every day dead tired. Turns out it's not just Seasonal Affective Disorder but that she's actually Doing Stuff every night... but what?

Engrossing, chilling and hard to put aside; it's mostly some of the ultra-short chapters (that's a trick that wears itself out quickly) and the abrupt ending that keep me from giving this more than a very strong 3. I like that it doesn't feel the need to explain everything, that it lets us fill in some details ourselves, but there's a point where that almost feels like a cop-out - which is interesting for a book about refusing to acknowledge trauma.