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Cassel Sharpe is a Worker, one of the few people in the world with a magical power. His family uses their powers to run cons and win gang wars, but Cassel just wants to go to school and avoid his troublesome family. He has good reason--in White Cat he found out that his brothers had been using him to kill people, then erasing his memory. He made the perfect assassin, until he discovered one too many holes in what he thought was the truth. Cassel turned the tables on his brothers and gets out fr
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Cassel Sharp is back, and now two federal agents are after him with a deal: he works for them, giving them intel on mob boss Zacharov, and hopefully finding his brother's killer. Yes, that's how he finds out his brother Phillip was murdered. The only brother he has left is Barron, the one who erased Cassel's memories of committing murders for Zacharov. But Zacharov isn't willing to let Cassel go so easily. Cassel is a transformation worker after all, and those are extremely rare. And Cassel is a
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Okay. I adored the first book, White Cat. I feel this sequel didn't quite live up to it, though. Right up until the end of this book, Cassel is sympathetic, because he is subject to the actions of people who are out of his control, but still finds a way to succeed. But then he does something really, really dumb. So epically dumb that it's hard to not feel that he deserves everything bad that might happen to him as a result, as well as the misery that the immediate fallout makes him feel. It's a
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**Red Glove is the second book in Holly Black's Curse Worker Series. This review has spoilers for the plot of the first book White Cat. You have been warned.**
Cassel Sharpe thought he knew all the angles. He thought he understood his family of criminals and curse workers even though he wasn't really a part of that world.
That was before Cassel found out he was a Transformation Worker. That was before he betrayed his brothers before they could do the same to him. That was before the girl he though ...more
Cassel Sharpe thought he knew all the angles. He thought he understood his family of criminals and curse workers even though he wasn't really a part of that world.
That was before Cassel found out he was a Transformation Worker. That was before he betrayed his brothers before they could do the same to him. That was before the girl he though ...more
Another great book in what could turn out to be a 5-star series. It's exciting, it's funny, it's heartbreaking, it's deep, and its fantastical elements effectively map to contemporary issues. (view spoiler)
I read this right after Heist Society, & it's hard not to compare the books, both about teens trying to balance the demands of filial loyalty to their crime families an ...more
I read this right after Heist Society, & it's hard not to compare the books, both about teens trying to balance the demands of filial loyalty to their crime families an ...more
Fun story continues in a neat world. The rules make sense and the formula for what a second book should have was all executed .. sturdily lol. Like this series is a fine forgettable series.
I can't write a review. I just want *more*.
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Another solid installment in the Curse Workers series. Some new twists, as we've come to expect, but a lot of it is the logical "what now" extension of the previous book. In the end I was disappointed by how things with the romantic arc were left, but I hold out hope for the future :) If it weren't for that, I'd rate it 4 stars, but I'm a romantic at heart.
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i try not to say "i couldn't put this book down" unless it's actually true, and in this case it certainly was. white cat was good; red glove is brilliant. if holly black keeps going like this, the third book in this series will be explosive, and i can't wait for it.
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May 08, 2011
Liz
marked it as to-read
Sep 18, 2012
Jess
marked it as to-read
