![]() ![]() Until grimoires and magical texts started circulating online, the gloamists were relatively secret, hiding their work for centuries. Shadow magic only recently became common knowledge, because, of course, the internet. ![]() She bartends at a seedy club, but her old life still lingers in the periphery-she is never far from the world of the gloamists, magicians with sentient shadows that can do their bidding. Twenty years later (which feels fantasy-level surreal to say), I got to delve back into the world of magic and mundane with Black’s first adult novel, Book of Night.Ĭharlie Hall has a talent for trouble she is a skilled thief and con-artist, but a string of bad decisions and terrible relationships have led her to leave her life of crime. ![]() It was my first foray into urban fantasy. The story of a changeling girl living in modern suburban New Jersey and rediscovering the world of fairies that she came from sucked me in, and I have never forgotten the feeling of grit and teen angst and dark magic. I was 13 years old when I first read Tithe, Holly Black’s first novel. In our Book of Night book review, we venture into a world of shadows and murder with a gutsy con-artist. ![]()
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