Katherine Harbour's Blog - Posts Tagged "ya-noir"

White Cat
Cassel Sharpe seems like a normal, if shady, teenager. But his world is an alternate reality. In this world, Workers (those who can use magic) are uneasily integrated into society. The only thing that keeps them from going darkside in most cases is the blowback--whenever someone uses magic, whether to influence people or reality, they suffer terrible repercussions.
Cassel's two brothers and his jailed mom are curse workers and not the upstanding kind. Cassel believes he's the only one in his family who isn't gifted . . . until he learns that a horrifying tragedy in his childhood might not have been what it seemed.
I loved this noir version of a magical, contemporary USA, where the protagonist is a trickster trying to survive a con he's twisting back onto the con artists.
For fans of The Raven Boys.