People call people with magic “curse workers” and there are seven types-Luck, Memory, Dream, Physical, Emotion, Death and Transformation.īut the story is really about a boy, Cassel Sharpe, who’s still in love with the girl that he’s afraid he murdered three years ago. In the same way that the mob controlled the booze during Prohibition, crime families control magic. The Curse Workers series posits a world where a small percentage of people have magic, everyone knows magic exists and, in the United States at least, magic is illegal. And then I was thinking of other organizational models and I thought-what about organized crime? You have councils of magic that behave something like corporate boards of directors. You have schools of magic, like in Harry Potter. I got the idea for the series when I was thinking about the ways that magicians in books are organized. For the uninitiated, can you explain what curse workers are, and how you came up with the idea for writing about them? Your new book, The Red Glove, is the second installment in the Curse Workers series. She currently lives in New England with her husband, Theo, in a house with a secret door. She has been a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award, a finalist for an Eisner Award, and the recipient of the Andre Norton Award. Some of her titles include The Spiderwick Chronicles (with Tony DiTerlizzi), the Modern Faerie Tale series, the Good Neighbors graphic novel trilogy (with Ted Naifeh), and her new Curse Workers series, which begins with White Cat. To find out the truth, Cassel will have to outcon the conmen.Holly Black is the author of bestselling contemporary fantasy books for kids and teens. As Cassel begins to suspect he's part of a huge con game, he must unravel his past and his memories. He's noticing other disturbing things too, including the strange behavior of his two brothers. But his fa‡ade starts to crumble when he finds himself sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. Cassel has carefully built up a fa‡ade of normalcy, blending into the crowd.
You just have to ignore one small detail-he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago. He hasn't got magic, so he's an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family. And since curse work is illegal, they're all criminals. PublisherPenguin Random House Audio PublishingĬassel comes from a family of curse workers-people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands.
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