I'm gonna give this a 3.5 rating overall. It was a great series opener and I really love the world Holly has created, and I can't help but feel for Cassel the poor boy. I'll probably do I series review of the whole series when I'm finished.
Cassel is a young con artist with a dark past and a family with strange powers. As events unfold, it becomes obvious how badly he's been conned by his abusive family, but he is not far behind in figuring it out himself. The narrator's voice fits him well and the story is good and creepy.
Present tense, first person and teenage male narrator: not usually my first picks. This book had all three, and it worked.The con life aspects were fun, the magic system was interesting and, while I hope the politics don't become too central a theme in future stories, the world was an appropriately ...
Let’s all take a moment to appreciate the cover–I really like it!This is such an intriguing premise to read about. I don’t read many book where the protagonist is male, so it was refreshing to read White Cat in a different perspective than I usually read Young Adult. Cassel is the black sheep in his...
A little background: A curse worker is someone who has a supernatural ability he / she can use through skin to skin touch. A dream worker can invade dreams, a memory worker can steal memories, a physical worker can break bones, a luck worker can give luck. The rarest curse worker is a transformati...
Meh.That's actually a fairly good description for this book, I think.The positives were the writing and concept. I hadn't seen the idea of a Curse Worker around, they kind of come close to Air Bender rules. Some are just born with it and some are awesome and the Avatar and that's how things are. I l...
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