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 facade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. But his facade 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 con-men.
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books; 1 edition (May 4, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416963960
How I Read it: Library Check-out
Holly Black has done the incredible, something I hope to achieve one day. She has created a world where nothing is what it seems. A dangerous world full of enough wonder that you have to open the book again for more. And the more you come back the more you want it. It is an addictive world, where with each chapter the plot thickens and you become more entranced.
In this world the characters are creative and amazing. Each character is slowly losing there mind and doing what they do best. Being con-men and in some cases being curse workers.But who is plotting against who? And what is the deal with the white cat? Well I can't tell you. You will just have to read this book made of awesome to find out.
As for the cover. Well you can see that it is made of awesome. See, look at the picture up there at the beginning of this review.
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