Charlie Hall is a thief, a con artist, and a girl who loves trouble. In a world where there are magicians who can manipulate shadows to kill people, control people, and do so much worse, things are about to get interesting. Charlie has spent half her life working for gloamists (magicians who control these shadows) and after some big past mistakes she just wants to lie low, take easy jobs, and get out of the business. But getting out isn’t easy when you’ve got a reputation. Charlie has secrets, but shes about to discover that her boyfriend Vincent has even more. When a job gets out of hand and she soon discovers that her shadowless (possibly soulless) boyfriend has more secrets than she could ever imagine everything is about to go from bad to worse for her because Charlie Hall cannot escape trouble. Soon she will find herself descending into a maze of secrets, murder, money, magic, and power and will have to figure out what she truly wants. I have no words to describe how absolutely brilliant this book was, I loved it. I IMMEDIATELY NEED THE SEQUEL. The story fluctuates between Charlie’s childhood, the events leading up to how she got to where she is today, the present, and Vincent and his past. Charlie was raised to be a con artist, she has a talent for it, she keeps her life separated in secrets, her jobs, her nice home life with a quiet and handsome boyfriend who cleans up dead bodies. But when you keep secrets things are bound to unravel, and when it does unravel Charlie starts to realize that she wasn’t the only one keeping secrets in this relationship. Vincent is all masks, he is secrets, he is a calm face hiding something more, and he is connected to Charlie in ways she never knew. This was a story about romance, about surviving, about making bad decisions, and about loving someone for who they are despite everything else. I loved Charlie and I loved Vince, I loved the magic and the mayhem that was this book and I absolutely can’t wait to see where the story continues after that ending!!

*Thanks Netgalley and Macmillan-Tor/Forge, Tor Books for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*