![]() ![]() Holly Black’s world building is vivid and incredibly transportive, blending an urban setting with dangerous magic inspired by the author’s fascination with second selves. Whilst you shouldn’t expect the story and characters in Book of Night to be anything like Folk of the Air, the one thing you can absolutely expect is a quality of writing that instantly immerses you in Charlie’s dark and shadowy world. Had fingers made fo picking pockets, a tongue for lying, and a shrivelled cherry pit for a heart.” Never met a bad decision she wasn’t willing to double down on. There’s always been something wrong with Charlie Hall. But there are those who will freely kill to get their hands on it – and Charlie must be smarter than all of them if she wants to not only survive but to protect the people she loves too. Dragged back into the corrupt business she thought she’d escaped, and pitted against magicians, manipulators, mercurial billionaires and her own skewed sense of right and wrong, Charlie must find the mysterious secret book that everyone is searching for. It’s whilst looking into the disappearance that Charlie comes face to face with a terrible figure from her past, who gives her an ultimatum she can’t refuse. Charlie’s attempt at distancing herself from her past mistakes is hindered when an old acquaintance from high school asks Charlie to track down someone who’s gone missing. ![]() But she’s determined to remain on the straight and narrow, working as a bartender to earn enough money to send her magic-obsessed sister Posy to university, and living a quiet existence with her stoic boyfriend, Vince, whose own shadow was stolen from him before they met. In a world where a person’s shadow can be manipulated, sold, stolen or severed, Charlie has made bad decision after bad decision since she was old enough to make them for herself. Black’s debut adult novel, Book of Night, shares that same wicked blend of secrets, lies and murder, sitting comfortably in the urban fantasy genre, but if you’re expecting it to be anything like its faerie predecessor, you ought to leave those expectations at the door.Ĭharlie Hall is a thief for hire. ![]() Having written over thirty fantasy novels for children, teens and young adults, Holly Black is perhaps best known for Folk of the Air, a YA urban fantasy series set in a lavish and dangerous fae world. ![]()
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