Book of Night - by Holly Black

Book Synopsis

#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

Review Quotes

Praise for Holly Black:

"No one writes like Holly Black--eerie and vivid." --John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"I will never forget my first time reading Holly Black...Such a beautiful writer." --Daisy Johnson, Man Booker Prize finalist and author of Sisters

"Black is a master at world-building" --The New York Times Book Review

Praise for The Cruel Prince:

"Lush, dangerous, a dark jewel of a book.... This delicious story will seduce you and leave you desperate for just one more page." --Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Six of Crows and the Shadow and Bone trilogy

"I require book two immediately. Holly is the Faerie Queen." --Victoria Aveyard, #1 bestselling author of the Red Queen series

About the Author

Holly Black is the #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of speculative and fantasy novels, short stories, and comics. She has sold over 26 million books worldwide, and her work has been translated into over 30 languages and adapted for film. She currently lives in New England with her husband and son in a house with a secret library. Book of Night is her adult fiction debut.

You can read more about her on https: //BlackHolly.com/