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Rereading this made me so happy I don't even know how to properly explain the satisfied warmth covering my whole soul right now. It had been six years! SIX years!! I freaking love Holly Black; I love her style that's both simple but worked with raw depth, with characters who leap off the page in just a few lines, and protagonists you honestly would die for despite them being pretty as the devil and twice as clever. Honestly love that. Keep it up Cassel, sweetie, you're doing your best.Teen con a...
3.5 starsYour average 2010 YA but with some modern perks. Holly Black was ahead of the game even back then 🤧This book was surprisingly dark and twisty. I really enjoyed following Cassel around in his search for clues. I didn’t find the world building mindblowing, but it was fun to read about some kind of parallel reality in which everyone wears gloves to protect themselves and others from magic.My main issue with this book is that for a good 60% not a lot happens. I was almost halfway through an...
*4.5 Stars* Lie until even you believe it-that's the real secret of lying. The only way to have absolutely no tells.Too bad I'm not quite there yet. When I try to think of a word that reminds me of this book, the most forthcoming is just this: Weird. This book was all kinds of weird. But, when I take the time to really delve deeper and actually peel back the layers of this intricate story-line, I begin to 'see' so many more words pop into my mind: Haunting, clever, mesmerizing, addicting...swe...
Book 1 of 3 in my "I'm a loser challenge"Why do I do this to myself?!!! And Oh Helena? I hate you for being better than me 😩
Holly Black is the anti-Cassandra Clare. While Black’s series has been using cover quotes from Ms Clare (a good friend of Ms Black) to promote the series, Black’s writing stands leaps and bounds beyond anything Clare has ever written and “White Cat” is a brilliant read on pretty much every level. It’s not often these days that I’m surprised by a YA book. Maybe it’s the market itself, maybe it’s my own YA oversaturation, but whatever the case may be, when a YA comes along that I find entertaining...
Curse workers - hated, feared, beloved.Some can make you forget your own name. Others can kill you with a single touch. Rarest of all - some can even transform you into something entirely different.But don't forget, their powers are a curse. They experience a backlash with every use of their powers. If a luck worker gives you good fortune, they will experience a pleasant kickback. If they give too much luck, they may spend forever in a blissed out state. The backlash can be unpredictable: if
I don't even know why I liked this so much. I kind of guessed most of the twists, but it still so damn delicious that I immediately downloaded BOTH of the next two audiobooks as soon as I finished this one.And it was read by Jesse Eisenberg who did a really good job of it. I was sort of surprised that I liked his reading of this thing, but I did.
I've never read this but apparently I own it and I am PUMPED.Have any of you read it????
4.5 starsHolly Black, where have you been my whole life? We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That’s why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.But what happens when you are forced to doubt every single memory that makes you who you are?!This book has definitely made it to my ‘top ten young adult books’ list. It came at the right time and it was just what I needed: angst-free a...
4.5 starsI really, really enjoyed pretty much everything about this book. An exciting mystery, memorable characters and a touch of magic... I can't express how excited I am about reading Red Glove as soon as possible.Holly Black is an author that never really did anything for me before. I gave up on Tithe after reading just one chapter, and her Spiderwick Chronicles weren't bad children's books but they didn't really stand out from the masses either. White Cat was completely different, I was
It's safe to say that it's not the cover that attracted me to this book. I was actually quite surprised to see its many great reviews. Yes, I'm a book judger. Oh well. I picked this up as an audiobook and actually liked it a lot.Some people are born as workers in Cassel's world. Workers can "work" people with their hands. By touching someone, they can alter their memory, kill, give good luck, bad luck. You name it. Cassel is the only one in his family who is not a worker. He's been getting these...
Absolutely loved it! I’ve read a few Holly Black novels recently and love her take on the fae world. This novel was not about the fae but a whole new magical setting. The first third was pretty good and then it really took off. An original world of magic and workers, where everyone wears gloves so their skin never touches, a family of con artists. Casserole was a really believable character. Really looking forward to the rest of the series. Recommended.
2* dnf: idk because I skipped ahead, but around 18% I thinkLame and boring. I thought the main character was going to be schemey and smart, but no he's just a stupid kid. Cassel sucks.
