Holly Black

#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 In Charlie Hall’s world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences—but also to increase power and influence. 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. 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. And sometimes, it has a life of its own. Charlie 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. She gets by doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at the edge of the Berkshires. But 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. 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. With sharp angles and prose, and a sinister bent, Holly Black is a master of shadow and story stitching. Remember while you read, light isn’t playing tricks in Book of Night, the people are. Praise for Holly Black: “Black is a master at world-building.” —The New York Times Book Review “No one writes like Holly Black.” —John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Book of Night

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Kenny Al-Bashir

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Alison

In the hours before a job, adrenaline kicked in. She was alert, focused. Although she only truly came awake when there was a puzzle to solve, a potential triumph outside the grinding pattern of days.

After a bad night where Travis yelled at Charlie to clean up her room and, when she didn't do it to his satisfaction, ripped her copy of Howl's Moving Castle in half, she decided it was time.

If someone had put a marshmallow in front of her as a child, she would have eaten it straightaway, because adults couldn't be trusted to keep their promises. 

Helen Borham

ny child can be chased by their shadow. All they need to do is run straight toward the sun on a lazy afternoon. As long as they keep moving, it will be right behind them. They can even turn around and tr to chase it, but no matter how fast their chubby legs pump, their shadow will always be a little bit out of reach.

Anna Lauren

« They seemed to forget that everyone gets born into bodies they can't just kick off like slippers, figures they can't transform as though they were shadows. »

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