Book of Night by Holly Black6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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.īook of Night was 2022 LibraryReads Top Pick and received a starred review from Indie Next. ![]() 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. Holly Black is an American writer and editor best known for The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series of childrens fantasy books she created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and a trilogy of Young Adult novels officially called the Modern Faerie Tales trilogy. ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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