Red Glove is the 2011 second book in The Curse Workers, a series about Cassel Sharpe written by Holly Black.
Too many YA-novels are being made into movies these days. But I want these books to turn into a series of movies. Please?
Not really giving anything way that isn't given away from the beginning: Lila, Cassel's crush-ballooning-into-something-epic, is cursed by his mom to be in love with Cassel. Cassel is appropriately oh-fuck-no, but it's really a bit difficult to be noble when the beautiful girl of your dreams is arguing that you should get it on to see if it doesn't cure her curse.
But the book still suffers from the lack of the sharp-cornered Lila in [Book:White Cat]. That Lila would threaten to shank you if you got in her way; this one moons a lot.
Also, reading [Book:The Rivers of London] series is really instructive to me in its treatment of a biracial protagonist. (Cassel isn't, properly, biracial, but he doesn't know his own background and considers it possible that one of his ancestors was a Black slave.) Cassel very rarely seems to notice the kind of genteel aversive racism …
Not really giving anything way that isn't given away from the beginning: Lila, Cassel's crush-ballooning-into-something-epic, is cursed by his mom to be in love with Cassel. Cassel is appropriately oh-fuck-no, but it's really a bit difficult to be noble when the beautiful girl of your dreams is arguing that you should get it on to see if it doesn't cure her curse.
But the book still suffers from the lack of the sharp-cornered Lila in [Book:White Cat]. That Lila would threaten to shank you if you got in her way; this one moons a lot.
Also, reading [Book:The Rivers of London] series is really instructive to me in its treatment of a biracial protagonist. (Cassel isn't, properly, biracial, but he doesn't know his own background and considers it possible that one of his ancestors was a Black slave.) Cassel very rarely seems to notice the kind of genteel aversive racism that Peter Grant navigates all the time. I suppose on the one hand that it's possible it's just not something Cassel is sensitive to, but I rather suspect the difference is in the authors.
