Holly Black is very good.
He has demonstrated with the saga of Spiderwick and the wonderful Tribute (an extraordinarily perverse fairy tale). And White Cat amply demonstrates that it is one of the best and get a novel that is among the cream of this year and I am sure will be one of the best readings I'll do this 2011. Hala, you're told.
A touch with your hand and you're dead. Or with all your bones broken. O no personality. Or trapped in a relationship. Or the memories changed. Or become a doorknob. A world where magic is illegal and is reduced to a few, usually criminals or gangsters. This is the world that moves Cassel, a normal boy in a family of workers curses. Tries to lead a normal life as far as possible. But one night he wakes up naked on the roof of the boarding school. Remember you have dreamed of a white cat and is aware that his normal boring life is about to end. Especially when you are removed from the boarding school and has to go live with his grandfather and reunited with his family. From that moment, Cassel will be involved in an intrigue that reveal secrets from his past that will lead to a future that does not want to live.
Holly Black is very good. This is something we all should be clear and put his portrait over the fireplace along with the best writers of young adult novel and fantasy novel. And it is good because it is not content to follow in the footsteps of others, but seeks to create and shape their own way. When the market is experiencing a glut of novels with the same dogs with different collars (now change tomorrow, change a vampire by Angel, but with structures and forms and solutions mimetic), Holly Black presents a novel that skips the conventions. Create a new world through a dangerous combination, but in his hands is lethal and a triumph: learning magic + story + novel.
Holly Black, which is very good do not know if I have already mentioned, he builds a subtle literary universe, but marked differences from ours and does so through four strokes well given, dosing information and knowing that the other side the book is a reader and it's smart.
The characters are well constructed and treated. Since Cassel leading up to the last child. Complex, attractive, well built, strong personality. Like a story that draws on the best tradition of thrillers, but with notes of magic. Disappearances, intrigues, betrayals, gangsters, scams, cons, etc. With clever plots and twists that are original and raise the novel of the adventures of an ordinary teenager, a powerful existential drama. At the end of the novel is no less inter alia a reflection on how we can fuck helps the family a good living.
And yes, there is romance, of course. But different. Very different. More mature and realistic than what we usually find. And without moralizing. No speeches about how cool to be expected and how great it is to look in the eyes as leaves fall from trees.
Anything else? Yes. A subtle, sometimes cynical and effective sense of humor. And an ending that could be autoconclusivos (it is not because that's trilogy), but with many readings: sad and desolate, yet ironic, even parodic way of dealing with love and passion in the romantic young adult novel . A final great novel that carries very high standards.
Come on, I'm excited. Gata white is a great novel (although their horrible cover and back cover does not seem worse.) A sample of that in urban fantasy and youth is not all that. An exercise in style, talent for building characters and plots, merger genres and narrative acumen. An excellent novel that should not be forgotten in a pile on the table more news.
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