He can’t shake the feeling that they had something to do with the long-ago disappearance of Lila, his best friend and the first girl he ever cared about. His whole life they’ve been involved in criminal applications of their skill. The more powerful the curse worker, the more in demand they are – in demand for less than savory assignments. But each curse worker has a specific skill, their particular curse, and they can’t go outside of its bounds. Through touch, they can perform all manner of magic: emotional manipulation, memory modification, death, you name it. White Cat tells the story of Cassel, the only untalented member of a notorious family of curse workers. It’s hard to do a cool cover and have it make sense with the pages inside, but White Cat definitely succeeded there. It was cool and magician-y while still being kind of mysterious and completely fitting with the demographic. And, because I’m me, the cover sucked me in. Faeries were never my favorite, but I bought White Cat because it was about magicians. I’d never read any of Holly Black’s books before I picked up White Cat.
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