Death workers, luck workers, memory workers, with just the brush of the hand on skin, a curse worker can “work” their magic. Cassel’s mother, an emotion worker, is serving time in jail for making millionaires fall in love with her and give her all their money. Cassel’s childhood friend, Lila, the daughter of a famous worker crime boss, was killed by Cassel himself and his whole family has worked desperately to help cover that up. Or that’s what Cassel thought, until a white cat comes along and shows him something entirely different about his life or what he thought his life to be. Cassel has learned how to con from the best, his mother, and with those clever con skills he tries to figure out what happened in his past and what will happen in his future.
Holly Black creates a realistic yet totally eerie world where everyone, even non-curse workers, has to wear gloves because no one can be trusted, laws are being passed to force people to take worker tests to potentially keep track of who has the power, and crime bosses are as powerful as they were in the 20s. A truly creative and exciting read; I am looking forward to the next installment of the new Curse Workers series.
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