Book of Night
#1 Sunday Times bestselling adult fantasy from the author of The Cruel Prince
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
'Dark, strange, thick with mystery and twists Book of Night is everything delicious and frightening I've come to expect from Holly Black.' Leigh Bardugo, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ninth House
'Black is a master at world-building.' The New York Times Book Review
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#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.
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. 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. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie.
Now, she's trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but going straight isn't easy. Bartending at a dive, she's still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. 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. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends back into a maelstrom of murder and lies. Determined to survive, she's up against a cast of doppelgängers, 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.
'I will never forget my first time reading Holly Black . . . Such a beautiful writer.' Daisy Johnson, Man Booker Prize finalist and author of Sisters
Book of Night, Sunday Times bestseller w/e 15th May 2022.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In author Holly Black’s fantastical world, shadows are big business. They can be manipulated and altered for any reason—to reflect your aesthetic taste or to increase your power and influence. Charlie Hall grew up in the dangerous criminal underworld of those who exploit and harvest people’s shadows. She was darn good at it before she decided to go straight, but Charlie is sucked back into her past when she encounters a new form of magic—one far more horrifying than shadow trading. The wild and unpredictable twists that stem from Charlie’s chilling discovery had us totally hooked. YA fantasy vet Black’s first novel for adults is fast-paced and gloriously exciting. We particularly loved how the chaotic Charlie interacts with people in her life, giving us deeper insight into her fractured psyche. If you’re looking for a dark urban fantasy filled with mysterious magic and curious secrets, look no further.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestselling YA author Black (The Cruel Prince) conjures a dark world filled with crime, betrayal, and power in her atmospheric adult fantasy debut. Shadows are a valuable commodity to be manipulated, altered, traded, and experimented on—and there are many dangerous players looking to harvest them. Growing up in this treacherous world, Charlie Hall learned the arts of conning and thievery from a young age, and there's no denying her skill. At 28, however, Charlie's determined to stay on the straight and narrow, using a bartending job to distract herself from the thrill of her old lifestyle. But when she reluctantly agrees to an odd job, a horrifying encounter reveals the return of a sinister individual from her past, plunging her into the dark underworld of shadow trading. Investigating its secrets leads her to discover a magic even darker than the shadows themselves. As the narrative shifts between past and present and the skeletons in Charlie's closet come to light, she must reckon with her dysfunctional childhood—and with just how powerful shadows can be. The many mysteries keep the suspense sizzling as Charlie guides readers through this slippery world. Black's adult fans and readers looking for dark urban fantasy will be thrilled.
