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An easy audiobook listen on a Sunday, "White Cat" is a new adult urban fantasy about the teenaged son of a crime family of curse workers. I enjoyed the world building with the crime workers, and may read on in the series. Nicely done.
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In these pages you will find a world where the simple act of shaking ungloved hands is unheard of and the very idea would make people cringe. Where a bare hand can become risque and the simple act of brushing up accidentally against another person can be seen as a hostile act. This idea alone is enough to interest me, but Black takes it farther yet. She's developed a world where such powers are just as dangerous to possess as they are awesome. Where crime lords have spawned in order to take adva
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Mysterious and imaginative, this is the story of Cassel, a non-Worker in a family of Curse Workers, people whose touch can manipulate emotions, affect luck or cause death, among other things.
Cassel may not be a Worker but following in his family's footsteps, he is a con artist and enjoys it. His past is haunting him and his relationship with his family is strained, making him reserved and cautious in his everyday life.
A series of events make him start questioning his reality and the motives of t ...more
Cassel may not be a Worker but following in his family's footsteps, he is a con artist and enjoys it. His past is haunting him and his relationship with his family is strained, making him reserved and cautious in his everyday life.
A series of events make him start questioning his reality and the motives of t ...more
I was definitely more invested in this story at the end than I had been at the beginning, mainly because I was pretty lost as to what was happening when it started. I didn't really understand what a Curse Worker was until about halfway through the book. Once I got it, then the story started to flow a little better. Some of the episodes felt a bit rushed (in particular the whole cat part), but overall I enjoyed the book.
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Fresh reboot of the old "gypsy curse" standby with memorable characters.
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Stayed up late reading it, great characters and interesting world. Liked the family aspect of the book, and the blend of magic and "the family". Also loved the male POV, so many kick-ass female protags, this was a refreshing change.
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Thought this was amazing completely different loved the ending
Should be 4.5
Should be 4.5
Kind of dark, violent, murder, missing/runaway girl, and deceit.
Mar 18, 2010
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