#36 Book of Night by Holly Black

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The feel of this book reminded me a bit of Curse Workers with the main POV character having a history of running cons.  Charlie is trying to go straight and currently working as a bartender it never seems to work out in the long term.  Everyone knows what she can do for them, and they all want her to do it.   People manipulate and steal shadows in order to do magic.   Things start rolling back into that life when she sees the dead body of a bar patron and gets curious about his death.  The next thing she knows she is attacked and then saved by her boyfriend doing things she didn’t know he could do.   Charlie has kept secrets about the cons she ran in her past and her boyfriend has never spoken about why he no longer has a shadow but all of that will be revealed during the book.  The story universe was interesting but overall I never really cared about Charlie.  She has done what she has in order to get by and help her sister but then she can also be cut corners when she didn’t have to.  She admits in the book that she has self-sabotaged herself her whole life and maybe at some point things might change but then the ending of the book isn’t what she wanted to happen. 

 

 

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss