Quick and Easy Read. I love trilogies – why? Because if the author has already put out it’s going to be a trilogy you know as a reader that you are going to get some closure, and hopefully pretty soon.

I love Holly Black’s writing style – it’s simple and to the point. That’s what makes her books so enjoyable to read for me. (I absolutely adored her Modern Faerie Tales trilogy – Tithe, Valiant & Ironside.)

White Cat starts off with action – Cassel pretty much hanging from the roof of his school house dormitory. How he got there – he followed a white cat. It builds from there building a very interesting alternate world where magic is real and done by those known as curseworkers. To work their magic on you they have to be touching you skin to skin. Thus, everyone wears gloves constantly. (Bet Jenny Pox wishes she lived in this world.)

I love Cas. Even though he’s the black sheep in his family he has developed a great personality. The take on his family is so twisted and yet fascinating It really makes you think – who in your family could you really trust – and what sort of twisted people your loved ones might be if they had such powers and would they use them on you?

PROS: Character building, Cas inner dialogue is great especially the one at the end! Relationships between characters were built very well. Also, you have to love how Cas makes money. Plot twists done well enough that I didn’t figure out everything right away.

CONS: Too convenient the way information was given about curse working. Also, a little bit too predictable at the end.