Lullaby for a Lost World

Probably more of a 3.5.

As expected, the writing by Aliette is beautiful and haunting and very unapologetically horrifying. It was painful to read from the beginning, which slowly transformed to anger and then satifaction, but I'm still a little unsure of something that happened towards the end. However, it was too short for me to dwell on it too much and the story is vague enough to be immersive without feeling incomplete.

I'm not sure why but the master and the house reminded me so much of House Hawthorn and Asmodeus from the author's Dominion of the Fallen trilogy.