'Dark, strange, thick with mystery and twists Book of Night is everything delicious and frightening I've come to expect from Holly Black.' Leigh Bardugo, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ninth House
'Black is a master at world-building.'The New York Times Book Review _____
#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies.
Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. 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. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie.
Now, she's trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but going straight isn't easy. Bartending at a dive, she's still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic, and that her shadowless and possibly soulless boyfriend has been keeping secrets from her. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends back into a maelstrom of murder and lies. 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.
Charlie Hall chưa bao giờ gặp phải ổ khóa nào cô không thể mở, cuốn sách nào cô không thể đánh cắp, hay quyết định tồi tệ nào cô không dám đưa ra. Cô đã dành nửa cuộc đời làm việc cho những pháp sư bóng tối, những người điều khiển bóng tối để nhìn trộm vào những căn phòng bị khóa, siết cổ người ta trên giường, hoặc tệ hơn nữa. Các pháp sư bóng tối bảo vệ bí mật của họ một cách tham lam, tạo ra một nền kinh tế ngầm của những cuốn sách ma thuật. Và để cướp bóc những pháp sư đồng nghiệp, họ cần Charlie.
'Dark, strange, thick with mystery and twists Book of Night is everything delicious and frightening I've come to expect from Holly Black.' Leigh Bardugo, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ninth House
'Black is a master at world-building.' The New York Times Book Review
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies.
Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. 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. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie.
Now, she's trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but going straight isn't easy. Bartending at a dive, she's still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic, and that her shadowless and possibly soulless boyfriend has been keeping secrets from her. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends back into a maelstrom of murder and lies. 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.
Charlie Hall chưa bao giờ gặp phải ổ khóa nào cô không thể mở, cuốn sách nào cô không thể đánh cắp, hay quyết định tồi tệ nào cô không dám đưa ra. Cô đã dành nửa cuộc đời làm việc cho những pháp sư bóng tối, những người điều khiển bóng tối để nhìn trộm vào những căn phòng bị khóa, siết cổ người ta trên giường, hoặc tệ hơn nữa. Các pháp sư bóng tối bảo vệ bí mật của họ một cách tham lam, tạo ra một nền kinh tế ngầm của những cuốn sách ma thuật. Và để cướp bóc những pháp sư đồng nghiệp, họ cần Charlie.