![]() Schwab, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Superb, entangling magic and mystery around the gritty horrors of human nature, neglectful parenting and the scourge of severe income inequalities. ― James Rollins, New York Times bestseller of The Starless Crown Holly Black is a master of fantasy with the Midas touch - there is no story she cannot turn to gold. scintillating prose, whiplash twists, and a voice of character that demands to be heard from again. ― Leigh Bardugo, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ninth House If Neil Gaiman channelled Stephen King, the result might be this book. With a gripping, perfectly paced story and a killer ending, this dark fantasy feels like an instant classic ― Guardian Dark, strange, thick with mystery and twists - a story so believable in its magic, you'll be keeping one eye on your shadow as you turn the pages. Such a beautiful writer.' Daisy Johnson, Man Booker Prize finalist and author of Sisters 'I will never forget my first time reading Holly Black. 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. ![]() 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. 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. 'Dark, strange, thick with mystery and twists Book of Night is everything delicious and frightening I've come to expect from Holly Black.' Leigh Bardugo, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ninth House 'Black is a master at world-building.' The New York Times Book Review _ #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. ![]()
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