Imagine a world where your next-door neighbor could be a curse worker--able to curse you or anyone else with just the brush of a bare hand. Now imagine that you are a member of a family of curse workers, all of whom happen to be criminals, but that you have no magic of your own.
This is the life that Cassel Sharpe faces in Holly Black's book White Cat. Cassel seems to be the only "normal" one in a family of criminals. That is, except for the fact that he murdered his best friend, Lila, three years earlier. When Cassel begins to have dreams about a mysterious white cat that is trying to tell him something, the careful facade of normalcy that he has built up begins to shatter and he starts to discover things about his past and present that challenge everything that he ever thought he knew. He no longer knows who to trust, where to turn, or even what is real. In the answer to these questions lie also the answers to his fate and the fate of the world of curses and family which is the only one that he knows.
This book is an action packed story that is chock-a-block full of plot twists and turns. Once you start reading, it is nearly impossible to put down. I would recomend this book for teens who enjoy fantasy and action novels. Though it is a fantasy story, the characters, situations, and settings are all very easy to relate to. I think that the book is very well written and the author, Holly Black, is one of my favorite authors. Overall, this was a great book that kept me guessing right until the end, where it left me dying to read the sequel!
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