Book of Night (B&N Exclusive Edition)

by Holly Black

Overview

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Charlie Hall is trying to distance herself from the powerful and dangerous underground world of shadow trading, but she can’t seem to escape this maelstrom of doppelgängers, thieves, and magic. Manipulating shadows has a cost, and Charlie is about to be swept up in a battle for its secrets. Holly Black’s adult dark fantasy debut is everything you loved about The Cruel Prince series, now for adults. 

This Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition features an exclusive, alternative cover, silver case stamp and includes the exclusive original short story, “The Witch and the Unlucky Brother," a hauntingly deceptive folktale from the universe of Charlie Hall.

#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 in the vein of Ninth House and The Night Circus.

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.

“Black is a master at world-building.”—The New York Times Book Review

“No one writes like Holly Black.”—John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250862839
Publisher:	Tom Doherty Associates
Publication date:	05/03/2022
Edition description:	B&N Exclusive Edition
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	2,007
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Holly Black is the #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of speculative and fantasy novels, short stories, and comics. She has sold over 26 million books worldwide, and her work has been translated into over 30 languages and adapted for film. She currently lives in New England with her husband and son in a house with a secret library. Book of Night is her adult fiction debut.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Holly Black:

“No one writes like Holly Black—eerie and vivid.” —John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“I will never forget my first time reading Holly Black…Such a beautiful writer.” —Daisy Johnson, Man Booker Prize finalist and author of Sisters

“Black is a master at world-building” —The New York Times Book Review


Praise for The Cruel Prince:

“Lush, dangerous, a dark jewel of a book…. This delicious story will seduce you and leave you desperate for just one more page.” —Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Six of Crows and the Shadow and Bone trilogy

“I require book two immediately. Holly is the Faerie Queen.” —Victoria Aveyard, #1 bestselling author of the Red Queen series

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