The Curse Workers · Book 1
White Cat
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 310
- ISBN-13
- 9781416963967
- Type
- novel
About this book
White Cat opens Holly Black's Curse Workers trilogy, a fantasy novel published in 2010 at 310 pages, following Cassel Sharpe -- the only non-worker in a family of con artists and curse workers -- as he starts sleepwalking with no memory of what he's done. It's followed by Red Glove, continuing Black's alternate-America magic system of Prohibition-style organized crime built entirely around illegal curse-working.
Its place in The Curse Workers
White Cat is book 1 in the The Curse Workers series. It is followed by Red Glove. See the full The Curse Workers reading order.
In Cassel Sharpe's world, a small fraction of people are "workers" -- able to curse others with a touch, transforming luck, memory, emotion, even physical form -- which is exactly why working of any kind has been illegal for a century and why organized crime families, Cassel's own included, are built entirely around it. Cassel is the only non-worker in a family of con artists and curse workers, or so he believes, and he's spent years quietly positioning himself as the closest thing to normal in his family -…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781416963967