This week I’m reading for my Paint It Black square and my Read by Candle Light or Flashlight squares.

For Paint It Black, I’ve found a novel which is the first book in an Urban Fantasy series and which has a black cover, the word black in the title and was written by a black author.

For Read By Candle Light Or Flashlight, I’ve picked a Kindle book because it brings it’s own illumination. My eyes aren’t up to reading a paperback by candlelight any more. I’ve picked a newly published mystery set in a near-future Yorkshire.

One of the squares has been called and the other is just because I feel like reading the book.

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‘The Black Parade’ by Kyoko M (2013)

I have high hopes of The Black Parade. It has some classic Urban Fantasy elements – scheming demons trying to drag people to…