#curseworkers

[bubblesandpages]

Love when you're caught up in an entire fictional family's drama but you also have a bias. Like I'm obsessed with this guy's brand of bullshit specifically.

[faeriexalice]

i had finished the Curseworkers trilogy, and felt upset that the trilogy was over, so i started reading The Coldest Girl in Coldtown. now that i finished that, and i am upset that THAT book finished too.. i supposed i should reread my other Holly Black faves to remedy that problem. The Modern Faerie Tales and The Darkest Part of the Forest will always have my back 🙏🏻

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

#ThisAgain Challenge - July 12th - The Lies of Locke Lamora 

Curseworkers trilogy by Holly Black

The Lies of Locke Lamora is one of those books that I’ve seen around heaps and been recommended a few times but has always just felt out of my comfort zone for some reason. But going off the blurb, it seems to be full of criminals and gangs and danger which is what the Curseworkers trilogy is about too! So who knows? Maybe after I’ve read these I’ll have to give Locke Lamora one more chance. 

[finnlongman]

I feel like the Curseworkers series is the most underappreciated of Holly Black's work. She's gained new fans through The Cruel Prince and a lot of those people have gone back to her earlier fairy books... but this series remains somewhat under the radar.⁣

Which is tragic because it's great. I love the worldbuilding -- the subtle differences with our world that make it feel real, like the way everyone wears gloves for fear of magic, and how that affects how naked hands are perceived. If you like crime and magic and dreams and transformations... you want to read these books. ⁣

(cross-posted from Instagram)

[wafflesbonesandcherryscones]

At this point in my lifetime I read enough books with morally grey protagonists that when I pick up a new one I don’t even realize it, I just assume that all main characters are this shifty

[novelnoviceya]

What's a book series you've been dying to re-read? I adore the CURSE WORKERS series by @blackholly - but it's been several years since I read them, and I'd love to dive into them again. Maybe this winter? . . #AllTheBooksAugust - want to reread . . #curseworkers #yalit #hollyblack #books #bookstagram #bookstagramfeature #bookstagramfeatures #bookish #bookishglee #bookishfeatures #booknerd #booknerdigans #bookblog #bookblogger #pnwreaders #bibliophile #bookphotography #instabook #reading #bookishlyunique  #epicreads #ireadya #fiercefeatures #bookstagrammer

[bubblesandpages]

It’s funny reading any of Holly’s love interests prior to Cardan and seeing just how nice they all are (messed up sure, but terribly gentle with their significant other, even prior to getting together).

And then you sit down to an author discussion and find out the reason Cardan Is Like That is because Holly kept on handing the manuscript over to reading partners, and Leigh was like ”he CAN BE MEANER. MAKE HIM MEANER” and that is absolutely hilarious, and also explains Holly’s departure from her classic love interest archetype. 

[bubblesandpages]

I’d forgotten Jesse Eisenberg plays Blu in Rio. This isn’t to say I’ve ever seen Jesse Eisenberg in anything else, no, but he does narrate all three audiobooks in Holly Blacks Curseworkers series and does a phenomenal job at making Cassel’s life sound absolutely miserable.