Charlie hopes to gather enough funds so that her younger sister, Posey (who has a side-hustle conducting tarot readings for strangers) can eventually go to college. She works as a bartender, employed by the dominatrix Odette, who is willing to look the other way as long as Charlie shows up for her shifts. The protagonist, Charlie Hall, is a girl with a blood-spattered past, struggling to learn from her mistakes and turn over a new leaf. Now, with the sinister and shadowy Book of Night, she makes her adult debut, weaving an enthralling story about a con artist, ancient grimoires, and silhouettes having a life of their own, set against a seedy urban backdrop that is rife with treachery, blackmail, and crime. Such a beautiful writer.Like the legendary Scheherazade of the Arabian Nights, bestselling fantasy writer Holly Black has long enchanted children and young adults with her darkly fantastical tales about the Faerie realm. 'I will never forget my first time reading Holly Black. 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. 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. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires.

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.

#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. 'Black is a master at world-building.' The New York Times Book Review '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

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