White Cat by Holly Black
Cassel Sharpe’s is the only member of his family that isn’t a curse worker. And he’s trying his hardest to be normal when he finds himself sleepwalking, trying to catch a white cat. After he’s kicked out of his boarding school for nearly falling off the roof of his dorm om his sleep he begins to realize that things with his family and his history aren’t actually what he thought they were. I can’t tell more than that without giving away major plot points.
I really enjoyed this book. It was something completely new in the whole supernatural powers genre. The story was well written and captivating. I recently read Tithe by the same author (her first novel, I believe) and while I really enjoyed the story, the plot was really jumpy but she seems to have improved – a lot!
If you are at all interested in this genre, this series is a must read.
Red Glove by Holly Black
*This may contain spoilers if you haven’t read White Cat.*
Cassel is just beginning the year at school when he is taken in by the FBI, informed that his brother has been killed and they suspect the murderer has also killed at least another five people. They blackmail Cassel into helping them find the killer. The only problem? Cassel soon suspects that he actually killed most of those people, but he knows he didn’t kill his brother. He also knows that if he cooperates with the FBI he could have bigger problems than being a murder suspect. He also has to deal with the fact that Lila has been worked to love him and the curse doesn’t seem to be wearing off.
I liked this book even better than the first one. Cassel has this way of working a con and getting himself out of the most difficult situations that makes for very entertaining reading. And although the books aren’t meant to be comedic, some of the characters are pretty witty and I laughed out loud several times. I also really liked the characters, Cassel especially. He has a lot of depth. Sometimes you read a book and the hero is just so good and perfect it’s kind of annoying but Cassel is real. He’s been raised in the world of the con and the mob so you’d expect that he’d be comfortable with a little bit of lying and deceiving and he is. But he’s not evil either. He’s uncomfortable with the fact that he’s killed people and even tries to reverse it. The other characters are real and believable too. Some are likeable and some aren’t, but I think that’s the point.
I wasn’t expecting to enjoy these two books as much as I did and I can’t wait for whatever happens next in this series!














A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
(This is the cover of the copy that I had as a child.)




I got the sixth audiobook out of the library and started to listen to it, but there had been a change in the reader. I’m not sure why this happened, but I didn’t like the new guy. He tried to do accents too but he got them all mixed up (in relation to the accents Parker had used for each character) and it was confusing for me. I only listened to a short part of it before giving up on the audiobook. The book happened to be at the library the last time I was there so I picked it up. I have to say that I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as listening to the books. I found that the cheesiness of the previous books, that I’d been able to overlook was not as easy to ignore. These books were definitely made for a younger reading audience than me, but when I was listening to the books, I was able to forget that. I still enjoyed the book though, it was full of the same adventure and suspense as the first five and once I got over the disappointment of not being able to listen to it, I really enjoyed it, almost as much as the previous books.