It means that you’re on her side as she tries to claw her way out of the danger she’s landed in largely by sheer dumb (un)luck.
At first, most of what happens to drag Charlie into the plot is a pretty disastrous set of terribly unfortunate accidents (wrong place at the wrong time). It’s really clever how the series of event is designed to get you invested in the story. The occasional timeline flips and POV switches could have utterly confused the story, yanking the tension rug out from beneath the reader, but that doesn’t happen here. The pacing was wonderful, managing to intersperse chapters about Charlie’s past and a few non-Charlie POV chapters in without losing the tension of the main story. Add to your shelves here.īOOK OF NIGHT is a dark contemporary fantasy about not-so-secret societies, bad decisions, and a world where shadows can be magical – and take on lives of their own.Ĭontemporary fantasy can be a bit hit or miss with me, but this is one I absolutely fell into and devoured. Determined to survive, Charlie throws herself into a maelstrom of secrets and murder, setting her against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, shadow thieves, and her own sister-all desperate to control the magic of the shadows. But when a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie’s present life is thrown into chaos, and her future seems at best, unclear-and at worst, non-existent.
She gets by doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at the edge of the Berkshires. And sometimes, it has a life of its own.Ĭharlie 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. Your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hidden-a second self, standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms. You can alter someone’s feelings-and memories-but manipulating shadows has a cost, with the potential to take hours or days from your life. In Charlie Hall’s world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences-but also to increase power and influence.
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