Teaser Tuesday (12): Red Glove

This teaser is for all those who have also read Cassie Clare's Mortal Instruments series and who know that Cassie and Holly are critique parterns and therefore borrowing one another's characters for a few sentences is ok!

Title: Red Glove
Author: Holly Black

"That stoner dude, Jace, says he hooked up with someone over the summer," Kevin whispers. "But I hear all the pictures he's showing around are really pictures of his half sister. Fifty bucks says there's no girlfriend."

"Find someone to be that he did hook up or does have a girlfriend and I'll give you the odds," I say. "The house doesn't bet."

(eGalley)

I had a little chuckle when I read those lines :-)
If you haven't read the Mortal Instruments you won't get why (so go read them! They're awesome!).


Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! Make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!
• Share the title and author too so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!

Teaser Tuesday (11): Red Glove

Title: Red Glove
Author: Holly Black

"It sounds like you've really got some plan cooked up," I say.

"Oh, come on," she demands. "School starts in less than a week. Don't you want to have some fun?"

 (eGalley)


I really, really enjoyed WHITE CAT by Holly Black and I've so been looking forward to reading RED GLOVE. I'm only a few pages in, but it's great so far :-)



Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! Make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!
• Share the title and author too so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!

Book Review: White Cat, by Holly Black

First line: I wake up barefoot, standing on cold slate tiles. Looking dizzily down.

Cassel lives in a world where magic is real and everyone knows about it. A person who works magic can change your luck, your emotions, your memories, your very form, just by the brush of their skin against your own. It's powerful. It's dangerous. Perhaps that's why they call is curse work.

Cassel grows up in a family where everyone is a worker - everyone, that is, except for him. He's the outsider, the one who doesn't belong, the normal guy. Normal, if you ignore the fact that he killed his best friend, Lila, when they were fourteen. At his private boarding school he has worked hard to maintain the image of "normal guy", but his facade begins to unravel after he wakes up on the roof of a school building and realises he's started sleepwalking again.

Removed from school and forced to clean up the old family house, Cassel starts to notice that some things don't sound quite right anymore. His brothers are keeping things from him. People are forgetting things. Why can't he remember what really happened to Lila? And what does the white cat - who keeps appearing in both his dreams and real life - have to do with all of this?

Cassel has one card to play in this game of lies and magic: he may not be a worker like the rest of his family, but he's learned the art of the con - and he's willing to con anyone in order to learn the truth.

I LOVED "White Cat". It was so different from anything else I've read lately, so refreshingly unique. Holly has created her fictional world perfectly: All the details come together and match up and make sense and you can believe, while you're reading it, that that's the way the world really is.

And that's how all fantasy writing should be.

Visit the Curse Workers website to find out more.