![]() ![]() And sometimes, it has a life of its own.Ĭharlie is a low-level con artist, working as a bartender while trying to distance herself from the powerful and dangerous underground world of shadow trading. Your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hidden-a second self, standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms. ![]() ![]() You can alter someone’s feelings-and memories-but manipulating shadows has a cost, with the potential to take hours or days from your life. In Charlie Hall’s world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences-but also to increase power and influence. This book includes a love story but has a cliffhanger ending, so keep that in mind. The protagonist, Charlie, lives in the world of normality, where she is a bartender hoping to put her sister through college, and the world of magic, in which she is a con artist and a thief. Holly Black’s first novel marketed for adults is a gritty urban fantasy in which magic allows people to control their own, and sometimes other people’s, shadows, and in which the rich and powerful trade in secrets and books of lore while jockeying for power. Child abuse and grooming, drug and alcohol addiction and abuse, self-harm, body modifications, cons, murders, blood, secrets, lies, theft, captivity and coercion. ![]()
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It takes place in the late 2080s in Artemis, the first and so far only city on the Moon. 2019 Geffen Award for Best Translated Science Fiction BookĪrtemis is a 2017 science fiction novel written by Andy Weir.2018 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. ![]() ![]() And one thing is certain, A Little Hatred is in every way a story you can expect from the Lord of Grimdark, essentially told in a gritty style heavily emphasizing the bleakness of a world characterized with brutality and violence. ![]() ![]() It’s been quite a few years since we had a novel set in the First Law World, and returning to it was a bit like coming home to a comfortable place-well, at least as homey and comforting as it can possibly be when it comes to a Joe Abercrombie book, but you get my meaning. This does not affect the contents of my review and all opinions are my own. I received a review copy from the publisher. Book Review: A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie ![]() |