Red Glove (The Curse Workers 2)
After rescuing his brothers from Zacharov’s retribution and finding out that Lila, the girl he has loved his whole life, will never, ever be his, Cassel is trying to reestablish some kind of normalcy in his life. That was never going to be easy for someone from a worker family that’s tied to one of the big crime families—and whose mother’s cons get more reckless by the day. But Cassel is coming to terms with what it means to be a transformation worker, and he’s figuring out how to have friends.
Except normal doesn’t last very long. Soon Cassel is being courted by both sides of the law and is forced to confront his past—a past he remembers only in scattered fragments, and one that could destroy his family and his future. Cassel will have to decide whose side he wants to be on, because neutrality is not an option. And then he will have to pull off his biggest con ever to survive….
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Awards
Red Glove won the American Library Association’s Best Fiction for Young Adults Award in 2012 and was nominated for a Locus Award the same year.
Praise
Dark, disturbing fare, crafted by a master; readers of the trilogy’s first will be supremely satisfied.
—Kirkus Reviews
The Curse Workers series continues to offer a sleek and stylish blend of urban fantasy and crime noir.
—Booklist
Readers will be happy to slip back into Black’s elaborate, fascinating world of workers, curses, and the seeming ease with which everyone has learned to live in a world where no one, not even family, can be truly trusted, and this sequel offers satisfying additional glimpses into this nearly familiar but ultimately shockingly different world.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Black again delivers complex characters and a nicely developed alternate universe where magic workers are social pariahs. This powerful, edgy dark fantasy won’t disappoint Black’s fans.
—Publishers Weekly, starred review