… I was handed a copy of Holly Black’s new book, White Cat, the other day. I haven’t read anything of hers before, but I know she’s a mate of Kelly Link and I regard Kelly Link as a deity, so I figured it would be ‘okay’.
It’s way better than ‘okay’ – it’s freaking awesome! Cracking pace, great characters, engrossing plot and some geniunely scary moments (how much do you trust your family?) – I don’t usually read YA, but I am turning pages like a hypnotised word-monkey.
Go. Find. Acquire by fair means or foul. No, wait, only fair means!!! Foul is wrong.
Blurbery:
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.
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