Though I liked Holly Black's elfpunk titles Tithe and Valiant, I have to say that her newest dark fantasy, White Cat, blows them out of the water.
Combining elements of mafioso gang warfare, frustrated romance and gypsy magic, this violent and disturbing book propels the reader through the increasingly complicated life of seventeen year old Cassel.
Cassel thinks he's the only untalented member of a wildly magical family of curse workers. He's focused on making a life for himself at an exclusively snobby private boarding school, where he practices his con skills on his trust-fund-baby peers.
When his haunted nightmares strand him in an awkward situation, there's no help for it: Cassel has to go home, where he can't avoid the people and places that remind him of his best friend, Lila.
Lila, whom he remembers killing with his own hands.
But of course, in a world of magic and cursery, memories may not be what they seem; and those who love you may be the most dangerous ones of all. If he wants any sort of future at all, Cassel has to use all of his con skills to uncover the truth about his past from his tortured memories.
With convoluted plots and main characters who hover on the edge of evil, this taut and complicated fantasy novel is just the first in the forthcoming Curse Workers series.
Fantasy
Grades 10-12
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