White Cat
The first book in the spellbinding Curse Workers series by the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Cruel Prince
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Publisher Description
Meet the Curse Workers - the fan favourite urban fantasy trilogy by global phenomenon Holly Black - now reborn in these unmissable new editions with stunning reimagined covers and updated texts never before published in the UK!
Cassel comes from a family of curse workers - wielders of a dark magic with the power to change your emotions, your memories, even your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. Since curse work was ruled illegal nearly a century ago, they're all criminals.
But not Cassel. He hasn't got the magic touch, so he's always been an outsider - the straight kid in a crooked family. As long as you ignore one small detail: he killed his best friend, Lila.
Now he's started sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. As Cassel begins to suspect he's part of a huge con game, he realises the only way to find out the truth is to outcon the conmen.
Murder mystery meets urban fantasy in the spellbinding world of the Curse Workers, where a single touch can bring love - or death - and your dreams might be more real than your memories. Brimming with dark magic, jaw-dropping twists, and a dash of romance, this iconic series is perfect for fans of Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo and Vicious by V. E. Schwab.
PRAISE FOR THE CURSE WORKERS SERIES
'Witty, twisty, and impossible to put down' LEIGH BARDUGO
'Dangerously, darkly gorgeous fantasy' CASSANDRA CLARE
'An exercise in stellar worldbuilding' V. E. SCHWAB
'Her most riveting work yet' SCOTT WESTERFIELD
'A stunning tour de force' LIBBA BRAY
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this beautifully realized dark fantasy, which launches Black s Curse Workers series, Cassel Sharpe is a talented con artist who works as a bookie at his snooty prep school. But skilled as Cassel is, it s nothing compared to the rest of his family, who are curse workers, able to control people s memories, luck, or emotions with the touch of a finger (curse work is illegal, and all citizens wear gloves to safeguard against being taken advantage of). Three years ago Cassel murdered a friend, the daughter of a crime lord, and now, not by coincidence, he s having nightmares about a white cat ( It leaned over me, inhaling sharply, as if it was going to suck the breath from my lungs ) and sleepwalking on the roof of his dormitory. Complex plots unfold around Cassel, and he eventually realizes that he can t even rely on his own memory. With prose that moves from stark simplicity to almost surreal intensity in a moment, Black (Ironside) has created a believable alternate America where mobsters are magicians and no one is entirely trustworthy. Ages 14 up.
