When she was in the game she was good, the best, but she now might be in over head dealing with forces and secrets she could never imagine existed.Ĭontent warnings (may contain SLIGHT SPOILERS): Domestic violence, gore, death of a loved one, sexism, violence. Set in a dark and dangerous alternate northwest New England with a cast of morally grey characters, Charlie gets convinced that doing just one last job will free the ones she loves.

That is, Charlie’s troubled past would be behind her if she hadn’t seen that weird shadow hovering over a horribly mutilated corpse on her way home from work and if her boyfriend hadn’t recently disappeared.

Now she has a decent, if shadowless boyfriend, and is trying to help her younger sister, who is desperate for magic, stay out of trouble and go college. Plot Summary: Charlie used to steal magical books and objects for magicians with questionable motives, but she’s put that life behind her and works at the local dive bar. Series (if applicable): This book is not part of a series Time Period: present day with some flashbacks to the past

Geographical Setting: Alternate suburban and rural Massachusetts (the Berkshire Mountains) Number of Pages: 306 pages of story text including a prologue plus acknowledgements *For my personal thoughts on Book of Night, check out my review of the book.

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