Author Holly Black is no stranger to melding the fantastic and the magical with the modern day, having authored the Spiderwick Chronicles. She’s kind of like the Neil Gaiman of the YA audience, except that, just like Mr. Gaiman, her books have a much wider appeal than strictly one demographic. You don’t need to look very far recognize her talent: her novel Valiant, was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a recipient of the Andre Norton Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
So it should come as no surprise that we read in her official bio that “Holly spent her early years in a decaying Victorian mansion where her mother fed her a steady diet of ghost stories and books about faeries.” We’re reaping the benefit of those years of storytelling now.
Holly’s latest novel, White Cat (book one of the Curse Workers), takes the idea of magic in the modern world and mixes in a favorite flavor of the mystery genre (and, I’ll happily point out, a favorite element of Philip K. Dick)—that of the question of false memory.
In the video below, Holly talks about White Cat and gives us the scoop on what’s going on as the book opens. We also hear from actor Jesse Eisenberg, who narrates the audiobook. Mrs. Black, take it away…
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