Remember while you read, light isn’t playing tricks in Book of Night, the people are. With sharp angles and prose, and a sinister bend, Holly Black is a master of shadow and story stitching. 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. 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. A consistent atmosphere of dread and foreboding reinforces the core magic system, giving shadow magic a sharp, dangerous edge. It’s a wildly entertaining, magic-filled mystery haunted by criminals with murky intentions. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. Black presents a decidedly mature perspective on our relationships with our silhouettes. 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. *Contains our Night Circus teacup, the first cup of our new Bookish teacup collection*Ĭharlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn’t pick, a book she couldn’t steal, or a bad decision she wouldn’t make. This box will include an exclusive hardcover SIGNED edition, with sprayed edges, a gold embossed design on the cover, along with 3-6 other items.
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