So I just finished a book called White Cat by holly Black, who we all know from "The Spiderwick Chronicles" fame. Anyways, Cassel is the misfit in a family full of workers and con artists: since he wasn't born a worker, he has made up for his lack of gifts by perfecting the art of the con. With Cassel's mother in jail for working a man as a part of a con, and his boarding school kicking him out over an episode of sleepwalking, Cassel is left to the unstable care of his two brothers Phillip and Barron, and their grandfather.
Now just to let you know about "Curse workers", they can change luck, emotions, dreams and even more just by touching your skin. This makes it easy to con people, the reason for the conning of people is because curse work is illegal. Therefore, they all tend to join mafia families. I digress here though as to what I was hoping to say. The book has distopian mores in it, the enemy here ultimately being a destructive, and obviously adult, power structure within a society that mandates an entire group of people inferior because they are tainted by innate qualities they never chose to have
Almost everyone who reads this book, will find something to equate to Cassel's own problems as he struggles with the problems he has through the book being the only person in a family of Curse Workers who is not able to work one.
I am sure that anyone , young and old will be able to enjoy this book.
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