Hardcover, 310 pages
Published May 4th 2010 by Margaret K. McElderry
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. – Goodreads
My Opinion: I did not think that a book could be this interesting. What has been stopping me from picking this up before and reading it? (Well time really, but WOW.) The book was great.
Cassel was an interesting character especially since everything that had happened to him and who was that cause of it. It can really mess up a person and it even messed him up but he got over it which is empowering.
The plot was also very interesting. There was suspense and action and mystery. There were many times where I was just like Cassel waiting to see what happened and trying to solve it with him. That is something the Holly Black did very well. She made it so easy for the reader to fall into Cassel’s way of thinking and to think of the story as though it was happening right in front of. There aren’t that many book that actually make me read the book as though it’s a movie, at least not lately. I love it when that happens, it makes the reading go faster and easier and FUNNER.
Overall: 5+ out of 5
Cassel was an interesting character especially since everything that had happened to him and who was that cause of it. It can really mess up a person and it even messed him up but he got over it which is empowering.
The plot was also very interesting. There was suspense and action and mystery. There were many times where I was just like Cassel waiting to see what happened and trying to solve it with him. That is something the Holly Black did very well. She made it so easy for the reader to fall into Cassel’s way of thinking and to think of the story as though it was happening right in front of. There aren’t that many book that actually make me read the book as though it’s a movie, at least not lately. I love it when that happens, it makes the reading go faster and easier and FUNNER.
Overall: 5+ out of 5
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