White Cat (Curse Workers, #1) in Addicted to YA

Dec 13, 2012 Renuka rated it it was amazing

I'm screaming (internally, so nobody hears me), but still. This book was frustrating, heartbreaking, infuriating, and completely exhilarating. I'm so angry at myself for waiting to read this. Review to come. ...more

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Jun 08, 2011 Rachel rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Cassel comes from a family of curse workers, people able to control emotions, memories, luck, life and dreams with a touch of their hand. Cassel is not a worker. He goes to a private boarding school, and when he sleepwalks onto the roof of his building, he is put on leave. He returns home to his Grandad and two brothers, Philip and Barron. Secrets start to unfold about the murder of his best friend, Lila, who Cassel murdered, and Cassel begins to suspect not everything about his life is as it se ...more

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Sep 22, 2010 kathleen duey rated it it was amazing

I love Holly's work.

Cassel and his family fascinate me. He is coming of age in such a dangerous culture, trying to fall in love without being able to know what is true. Holly makes it all so vivid--what it would be like to live in that logical, alternate, strange/familiar America where magic is common and illegal.

I look forward to reading the next two books! ...more

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Aug 02, 2011 Angie Taylor rated it really liked it

What if you had the power to control people's memories, emotions, luck, or even death all through the touch of your hand? But how would you feel if those powers belonged to the mafia, and because of those powers they controlled pretty much everything going on around you? This book was fun and mysterious and inventive. It was a little predictable, but the characters were interesting and imaginative. It made me rethink shaking hands with people skin to skin. Maybe I need to get me some gloves like ...more

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