White Cat by Holly Black
This book is writing by the author if The Spiderwick Chronicles and is a fast paced extraordinary fantasy world.
Cassel is cursed and he is cursed by the memory of the 14 year old girl that he had murdered. Life at the school is a constant trial for him and when he goes out home things are just as bad. Nobody is going to forget or let him forget that he is a killer and that he is not a magic worker either.
His family are classed as one of the big five families in America and ever since the use of magic was prohibited since 1929 and magic workers have been driven underground and into a life of crime. While people still have the need for her touch, their curses, the magical killings, the transformation that they bring and times have been hard from them. His grandfather has been driven to a life of drink, his mother is in prison and all the rest of the family detest that he is the only member of the family who can't do magic.
However there is a secret at the centre of his family and he has to inherit this and find that this is terrifying and the truth of this is even worse. The white cat is one of those novel in which shows how the world has been changed by the infusion of magic. In Holly Blacks world, only 1% of the population can work magic but 100% of the population have the power of nightmares.
This is not one of my favourite books, it started slow and it took everything to continue with the book. I usually love this type of story and it even had a synopsis which lead me to believe that this was an adult version of Harry Potter. I would recommend this book as just because i didn't love it does not mean that others would love it, I just found the story slow in progress but i like the writing style and would like to see other titles by Holly Black
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