num_pages: 304
description: In Charlie Halls world shadows can be altered for entertainment and cosmetic preferencesbut also to increase power and influence. You can alter someones feelingsand memoriesbut manipulating shadows has a cost with the potential to take hours or days from your life. Your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hiddena second self standing just to your left walking behind you into lit rooms. And sometimes it has a life of its own.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. She gets by doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at the edge of the Berkshires. But when a terrible figure from her past returns Charlies present life is thrown into chaos and her future seems at best unclearand at worst non-existent. Determined to survive Charlie throws herself into a maelstrom of secrets and murder setting her against a cast of doppelgngers mercurial billionaires shadow thieves and her own sisterall desperate to control the magic of the shadows.Holly Black makes her adult debut with Book of Night a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies.
language: English
title: Book of Night
publisher: Tor Books