![]() ![]() So you might have to slog your way through the drawn-out set up, but if you manage that, you’re rewarded with one hell of a ride. At times, I almost felt like reading two different books: the first half dragged and was boggled down with confusing information about the range of shadows and the alterations one can make as well as the backstory of Vince, Charlie, and Posey but by the time the second half arrived, I was so hooked I couldn’t put Charlie’s story down as it all unravelled magnificently with plot twists that left me shook. What I will say is that Book of Night takes quite a while to pick up its pace. I can already tell that this will make readers both put it on their Best of 2022 list and beg Holly Black for a sequel (because that ending. ![]() ![]() What a premise, right? And with gorgeous writing, a big mystery at its centre, an underdog protagonist and a race against the clock on a high-stakes heist, Book of Night definitely did not come to play. ![]()
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