Review: White Cat {Curse Workers, #1} by Holly Black

 

 

 

 

 

Cassel comes from a family of curse workers — people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they're all mobsters, or con artists. Except for Cassel. He hasn't got the magic touch, so he's an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family. You just have to ignore one small detail — he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago.

Ever since, Cassel has carefully built up a façade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. But his façade starts crumbling when he starts sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. He's noticing other disturbing things, too, including the strange behavior of his two brothers. They are keeping secrets from him, caught up in a mysterious plot. As Cassel begins to suspect he's part of a huge con game, he also wonders what really happened to Lila. Could she still be alive? To find that out, Cassel will have to out-con the conmen.

Holly Black has created a gripping tale of mobsters and dark magic where a single touch can bring love — or death — and your dreams might be more real than your memories.

From Goodreads.

 

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Release Date: May 4th, 2010
• My Copy: Kindle Edition | Privately Bought.
• Pages: 320  
• Series: Curse Workers Series 
• Genre: Paranormal Y.A. 
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White Cat (Curse Workers)

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Wow, just wow! I had heard so many amazing things about White Cat, but I have been having a hard time getting into Y.A. and ended up waiting so long to finally read it. I was lucky enough to get a chance to read Red Glove through the Simon & Schuster Galley Grab program and decided that it was about time I buckled down and read White Cat and I am happy to say I loved it!

Cassel is the only “normal” person, if you can consider an expert con-man normal, from a family of Curse Workers. Because he doesn’t really fit in into his own family, Cassel has spent his whole life trying to blend in. However, knowing that three years before he killed the girl he loved, doesn’t really help. When one night he wakes up on the ledge of the roof of his school, he realizes that there is something very wrong and all signs point to a conspiracy created by the people he should be able to trust the most in the world.

White Cat is the first book in an incredible series by Holly Black. Holly has created an amazing world full of lovable criminals and lies that you can’t help but be fascinated by. Cassel is not your regular leading man, however you can’t help but feel drawn to his charm and awkwardness at times. He is the last person you’d consider a hero, but with so many deception in his world, he is definitely not the worst choice.

White Cat is a brilliant book that took me completely off  guard and made me fall in love with a con-man and his friends. If you enjoy Paranormal Y.A. and haven’t read White Cat, I totally recommend it!

 

Next in The Curse Workers Series:

Coming Out April 5th, 2011!

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