"Clever as the devil and twice as pretty"

In Cassel's family everyone is except he is a "worker". These are people with the ability alone through contact with others, to manipulate them, to hurt or even kill them. His grandfather is a "Death-Worker", one of his brothers and his mother can manipulate happiness feelings. Without any skills except the Trickbetrügerei that was taught him from an early age on, he is the outsider in his family. In itself more than enough, but with his classmates, he can not emotionally deal also - he shows them what they want to see, because it is what happens to a Con Artist does best. The only person with whom he had not be so, his best friend Lila's dead. He killed her three years ago, with a harm joyful grin on his face, and he regretted it every day since then. His memories of it are, if at all, spongy.
As he, however, a white cat on the way goes, he dreams more and more purple, and his whole family strangely behaving as usual, asks him if he is not the victim of fraud. But what he finds is so unimaginable - positive or negative - that it changed his life as he knew it from blow on to.

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I must say that I really liked the idea for one of the male protagonist as well as the "Curse worker" good. It is now not really something new to manipulate someone by touching, but the implementation is really good. Because the fact that "Curse-Working" (I just do not know how to translate it) is illegal and that it can, which are not many, working mostly for Mafia families, it has something indecent or dirty on themselves. That "family" for "Mafia" is, should be known, because in this book falls the latter word not once, although it goes on the whole this book is about nothing else. I thought it was really well done.

Cassel itself is an average guy when it comes to character design and description. It acts at the beginning a little intimidated, he is there at the end, which brings the wicked to the track. In between, however, I had here and there the feeling that the author has a little too much trying to make him sympathetic to the reader. He was namely in some places too feminine, which basically is not bad. I just had to think about whether I had read it correctly, and are Cassels thoughts on the sides, or if something has been described from a different perspective.

Because the book is told only from Cassel view. What I did not like was the tense, namely, the present tense. I do not like this form in books per se. But I assume that there was no other way, because Cassel quite often has mental leaps into the past. In this the author tries and pretty good to explain even why Cassel is as it is.

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"White Cat" I was very surprised when it comes to action, and a little disappointed. In terms of places to feminine protagonists But I was tied and I felt really entertain. Here and there were scenes or dialogues that were funny and others touched. Anyone who wants something else read, as stories about vampires, shifters, or the like, I can recommend this book. Anyone who wants to read a story once necessarily a male protagonist, which I recommend to cherish not too high expectations.

I'll definitely read the next book in this series Red Glove (Curse Workers) and I am firmly convinced that the author, the farther the series continued running, also its protagonists gives more depth.

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A small Excerpt:

"Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone's watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he's Actually sawing a girl in half. You think he's doing one trick When He's Actually doing another.
You think I'm dying did, but I'm laughing at you.
I hate that I love this. I hate that the adrenaline pumping through the roots of my body is filling me with giddy glee. I'm not a good person. "