Determined to survive, she's up against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, gloamists, and the people she loves best in the world - all trying to steal a secret that will allow them control of the shadow world and more. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends back into a maelstrom of murder and lies. Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic, and that her shadowless and possibly soulless boyfriend has been keeping secrets from her. Bartending at a dive, she's still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires.

Now, she's trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but going straight isn't easy. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires.Īnd to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Remember while you read, light isn't playing tricks in Book of Night, the people are.#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies.Ĭharlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. With sharp angles and prose, and a sinister bent, Holly Black is a master of shadow and story stitching. Determined to survive, Charlie throws herself into a maelstrom of secrets and murder, setting her against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, shadow thieves, and her own sister-all desperate to control the magic of the shadows. 1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and. She gets by doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at the edge of the Berkshires.īut when a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie's present life is thrown into chaos, and her future seems at best, unclear-and at worst, non-existent. Your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hidden-a second self, standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms.Ĭharlie is a low-level con artist, working as a bartender while trying to distance herself from the powerful and dangerous underground world of shadow trading.

You can alter someone's feelings-and memories-but manipulating shadows has a cost, with the potential to take hours or days from your life. In Charlie Hall's world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences-but also to increase power and influence. #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies in the vein of Ninth House and The Night Circus

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