baronessekat | 2022 Reading Challenge: a book published in 2022

Book of Night by Holly Black

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

In the world that Charlie Hall lives in world where Shadow Magic has been discovered. Manipulation of a person's shadow allows for things such as compartmentalizing memories, emotions and such. Some people traffic in stolen shadows to sell and transplant on others.

The more emotions, memory and blood given to shadow the more powerful it becomes and there is a chance that it can be separated from it's host human and become a blight - a nightmare version of a ghost.

Charlie is hired to steal a book called "The Liber Noctum" (The book of the night) that is rumored to contain the ritual to turn a blight into a fully functional independent and sentient being. But to do so, she must go up against someone who nearly killed her when she was young.

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I had hopes for this book. But I found it greatly... eh. I guessed one of the twists pretty early on and the actual reveal left me feeling lacking.

I don't know what I wanted from this book, just that i wanted more.

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