When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.
What if there were people in the world who could work magic? What if it had consequences? What if your consequences could be deadly? What if people wore gloves all the time to avoid appearing to want to touch people to work magic? What if the use of this magic was banned and forced underground, like alcohol prohibition? These are some of the what ifs that Holly Black confront us with in this story of a world quite like our own and what happens after Cassel finds himself on a roof after a sleepwalking episode.
Cassel is from a criminal family, his family work cons, each have different skills and are trying to survive in a world that thinks they're too dangerous.
It didn't quite work for me, some of it was grand but I just didn't care about the cons and how the cons worked that Cassel explaned, it would probably appeal to fans of Leverage. I have no urgent urge to read the next in the series, but didn't dislike the read.
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