![]() 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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