![]() ![]() Vince, Charlie’s boyfriend, is masquerading as a solid, reliable partner, but after watching him easily kill a man with his bare hands, she can’t shake the fear that there’s more to his past than he’s told her.Īnd then there’s Lionel Salt, the man who tried to kidnap and poison Charlie when she was a teenager, against whom she’s sworn revenge (“But she only swore it to herself, so there would be no one else to let down when she didn’t”). Charlie’s younger sister, Posey, frustrated about her own lack of shadow magic, is delving deeper into the darker aspects of “quickening,” the process whereby a shadow can be made sentient and separate from its person. When a man bearing pages of a secret book, the famed Liber Noctem ( The Book of Blights), is found brutally murdered in her small Western Massachusetts town, his shadow floating next to him ripped to shreds, Charlie decides to investigate. Some editing deficiencies aside, Book of Night is a shining example of innovative fantasy writing.Ĭharlie Hall, a self-described walking disaster “drawn to a bad idea like a moth to a wool sweater,” has gotten herself in the middle of something dangerous. ![]() The story is compulsively readable, and the characters, despite their significant flaws and failings - or perhaps because of them - are generally people you want to root for. ![]() Holly Black’s first foray into adult books won’t take you long to get through. ![]()
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