About the book: year / The monks find a five-year-old boy and take him in as their foster home. He grows up and becomes a full-fledged inhabitant of the monastery, dreaming of becoming an abbot. But there is one obstacle that stands in his way - a terrible monster that appears in his dreams. The Shadow Diaries is an apocalyptic novel that provides an opportunity to look at the world of magic from an angle we are not accustomed to. Instead of the struggle between good and evil, it allows you to look at everything that happens through the eyes of darkness, to be in its shoes, and thereby compare whether light is really so different from darkness.