Book description
City of Day – Deadly by Night
By day, Astera is a bustling port city with shops, markets, shipyards, and people going about their day to day lives. But every night when the sun sets, the people of Astera board ships and abandon their home to dark, murderous ghosts --…
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1 author picked City of Day as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love everything about this book, from vampiric ghosts to forgotten magics to an entire population evacuating to sleep in ships every night. I'm not a fast reader, but I devoured this in only two days.
A little creepy, a little cozy, and a lot of intrigue? Yes, please! The city was so unique and twisted that I needed to keep reading to uncover every secret.
The deeper into the book I fell, the more I loved the characters. If I lived in this world, they felt like people I'd know personally, maybe even be friends with. I will be…
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