With sharp angles and prose, and a sinister bent, Holly Black is a master of shadow and story stitching.

“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. 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.” She gets by doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at the edge of the Berkshires. “ 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. And sometimes, it has a life of its own.“ 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. 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. “In Charlie Hall’s world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences-but also to increase power and influence. Check out the full synopsis below, and then read on for more insight from Black herself: Set in a world of shadow magic, Book of Night follows Charlie, a con artist pulled back into the underground world of shadow trading by her complicated past. As part of this past weekend’s TorCon 2021 celebrations, Black announced her upcoming first adult novel, a dark fantasy called Book of Night, and it sounds amazing. Holly Black has published over 30 novels for kids and teens, including The Spiderwick Chronicles and The Cruel Prince, but never before has she spun a tale explicitly for adult readers.

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