touch me with your naked hand, touch me with your glove
Bought Red Glove yesterday at 3pm.
Finished Red Glove this morning at 4am.
Guyyyys, Holly Black is awesome and you should be reading these books. The first one is called White Cat.
And now I am going to wax giddy about the system of magic in these books, because I just think it's the coolest damn thing ever.
The story is set in roughly the modern day, but some people are able to work magic--hence the term "workers." There are seven skills: Luck, physical, dreams, memory, emotion, death, and transformation. A luck worker can give someone else good luck, but the worker suffers from "blowback"--they get bad luck. You affect someone's dreams, and you have nightmares. You work memories? It can cost you your own.
You can only work someone or something by touching it with your hands...so everyone in this world wears gloves. All the time. Cotton, vinyl, leather, it doesn't matter. Naked hands are more scandalous than any other body part. But all it takes is a pinprick in a glove, just enough to touch skin to skin, and somebody can work you. Make you love, make you dream, make you dead.
So curse workers are highly valued by crime families--there's a whole underground of people who can make or take your luck, make you hate someone, or, if you're causing trouble, they can just kill you. With a touch. Of course, it kills a part of them, too, but hey. You've got ten fingers, right? You don't need all of them...
Anyway. These books are really fantastic--in fact, I've yet to read something by Holly Black that isn't fantastic, so pick up Tithe too.
Obligatory Pros crossover ramble: Remember those black leather gloves in "Backtrack"? Yeah. I'm wondering what kind of workers the lads might be... Doyle is luck and Bodie is emotion, but Bodie doesn't tell him that, because it's very stigmatized, and then when Doyle figures it out he goes ballistic because seriously, how do you ever know that what you're feeling is real?
Finished Red Glove this morning at 4am.
Guyyyys, Holly Black is awesome and you should be reading these books. The first one is called White Cat.
And now I am going to wax giddy about the system of magic in these books, because I just think it's the coolest damn thing ever.
The story is set in roughly the modern day, but some people are able to work magic--hence the term "workers." There are seven skills: Luck, physical, dreams, memory, emotion, death, and transformation. A luck worker can give someone else good luck, but the worker suffers from "blowback"--they get bad luck. You affect someone's dreams, and you have nightmares. You work memories? It can cost you your own.
You can only work someone or something by touching it with your hands...so everyone in this world wears gloves. All the time. Cotton, vinyl, leather, it doesn't matter. Naked hands are more scandalous than any other body part. But all it takes is a pinprick in a glove, just enough to touch skin to skin, and somebody can work you. Make you love, make you dream, make you dead.
So curse workers are highly valued by crime families--there's a whole underground of people who can make or take your luck, make you hate someone, or, if you're causing trouble, they can just kill you. With a touch. Of course, it kills a part of them, too, but hey. You've got ten fingers, right? You don't need all of them...
Anyway. These books are really fantastic--in fact, I've yet to read something by Holly Black that isn't fantastic, so pick up Tithe too.
Obligatory Pros crossover ramble: Remember those black leather gloves in "Backtrack"? Yeah. I'm wondering what kind of workers the lads might be... Doyle is luck and Bodie is emotion, but Bodie doesn't tell him that, because it's very stigmatized, and then when Doyle figures it out he goes ballistic because seriously, how do you ever know that what you're feeling is real?