'I will never forget my first time reading Holly Black. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends back into a maelstrom of murder and lies.ĭetermined 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. 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. Now, she's trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but going straight isn't easy.īartending at a dive, she's still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. It is unclear just yet whether this book is the first in a series, and I think knowing this will affect. Book of Night puts forward an interesting premise, and there is a lot of potential with the novel and the world Holly Black has created. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. It is definitely a book worth reading, especially for those who enjoy urban fantasy with a mystery twist. Rating: Summary from Goodreads: In Charlie Halls world, shadows can be altered.

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. Swindlers & Sentient Shadows Book of Night by Holly Black. Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make.

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. 1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of betrayals, secret societies, and a dissolute thief of shadows, in the vein of Neil Gaiman and Erin Morgenstern.

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