This Night So Dark (Starbound, #2.5)

by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

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I don't always love short stories because so often they are fractured pieces of characters, perhaps with a halfway decent beginning and end but without much depth or meaning in the story.

Not this one. This is as great as short stories get. It's a glimpse into beloved characters that lets us see them in a different setting. There are new characters that even in their short time are well developed. It enhances the larger story of the novels.

And, perhaps best of all, it's an actual, fully realized story. A beginning and an end and moments in between that are engaging and funny and action and it has all the pieces and structure of a full novel, just in fewer pages.

I so enjoyed reading it.