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Holly Black
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In a world where magic is illegal, Cassel Sharpe has the most deadly ability of all: With one touch, he can transform any object - including a person - into something else entirely. And that makes him a wanted man. The Feds are willing to forgive all his past crimes if he’ll only leave his con-artist family behind and go straight. But why does going straight feel so crooked?
For one thing, it means being on the opposite side of the law from Lila, the girl he loves. She’s the daughter of a mob boss and, though Cassel is pretty sure she can never love him back, he can’t stop obsessing over her. Which would be bad enough, even if her father wasn’t keeping Cassel’s mother prisoner until she returns the priceless diamond she scammed off him years ago. Too bad she can’t remember where she put it.
The Feds say they need Cassel to get rid of a powerful man who is spinning dangerously out of control. But if they want Cassel to use his unique talent to hurt people, what separates the good guys from the bad ones? With no easy answers and no one he can trust, love might be the most dangerous gamble of all.
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By: Kris Nelscott
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Bad Girls Don't Die
- Bad Girls Don't Die Series, Book 1
- By: Katie Alender
- Narrated by: Johanna Parker
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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When Alexis's little sister Kasey becomes obsessed with an antique doll, Alexis thinks she is just being her usual weird self. Things get weirder, though, when their house starts changing. Doors open and close by themselves; water boils on the unlit stove; and an unplugged air conditioner blasts cold air.
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Great for Halloween
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By: Katie Alender
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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
- Mara Dyer, Book 1
- By: Michelle Hodkin
- Narrated by: Christy Romano
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Mara Dyer believes life can't get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can. She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed. There is. She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love. She's wrong.
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Not Sure About Mara Dyer
- By C. Betts on 07-30-14
By: Michelle Hodkin
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Thief
- The Academy: The Scarab Beetle, Book 1
- By: C. L. Stone
- Narrated by: Megan Tusing
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
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Kayli Winchester is a dirt-poor girl living out of a hotel, forced to be the parent for a drunken father and teenage brother who she's desperate to keep in school. The only way she scrapes by is to utilize her one skill: pickpocketing. But even though she's a thief she has a moral code: no kids or old ladies, only targets who can defend themselves. Not that they see her coming...
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Good first book in the series
- By 🎧Romance Junkie🎧 on 10-04-19
By: C. L. Stone
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Gone for Good
- A Novel
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.
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Excellent twists and turns
- By Ed on 10-08-07
By: Harlan Coben
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The Lonely Dead
- By: April Henry
- Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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A killer is on the loose, and only one girl has the power to find him. But in this genre-bending YA thriller, she must first manage to avoid becoming a target herself. For Adele, the dead aren't really dead. She can see them and even talk to them. But she's spent years denying her gift. When she encounters her ex-best friend Tori in a shallow grave in the woods and realizes that Tori is actually dead - that gift turns into a curse. Without an alibi, Adele becomes the prime suspect in Tori's murder. She must work with Tori's ghost to find the real killer.
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May not be good for those with schizophrenia
- By Amazon Customer on 06-16-24
By: April Henry
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Future Shock
- By: Elizabeth Briggs
- Narrated by: Erin Spencer
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Elena Martinez has hidden her eidetic memory all her life - or so she thinks. When powerful tech giant, Aether Corporation, selects her for a top-secret project, she can't say no. All she has to do is participate in a trip to the future to bring back data, and she'll be set for life. Elena joins a team of four other teens with special skills, including Adam, a science prodigy with his own reason for being there.
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The clock is ticking...
- By Ryan Hooey on 09-18-16
By: Elizabeth Briggs
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Glass Houses
- Morganville Vampires, Book 1
- By: Rachel Caine
- Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Morganville, Texas, is a small college town filled with quirky characters. But when the sun goes down, the bad come out. Because in Morganville, there is an evil that lurks in the darkest shadows---one that will spill out into the bright light of day.
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Be Aware..
- By Justin on 07-21-09
By: Rachel Caine
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Magic to the Bone
- Allie Beckstrom Series, Book 1
- By: Devon Monk
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Everything has a cost. And every act of magic exacts a price from its user---maybe a two-day migraine, or losing the memory of your first kiss. But some people want to use magic without paying, and they Offload the cost onto innocents. When that happens, it falls to a Hound to identify the spell's caster---and Allison Beckstrom is the best there is.
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Good start to a Great series
- By Dana on 12-30-11
By: Devon Monk
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A Good Idea
- By: Cristina Moracho
- Narrated by: Alex McKenna
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Finley and Betty's close friendship survived Fin's ninth-grade move from their coastal Maine town to Manhattan. Calls, letters, and summer visits continued to bind them together, and in the fall of their senior year, they both applied to NYU, planning to reunite for good as roommates. Then Betty disappears.
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An absolute must listen/read!
- By Mel on 03-05-17
By: Cristina Moracho
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Far From You
- By: Tess Sharpe
- Narrated by: Tess Sharpe
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Sophie Winters nearly died. Twice. The first time, she's 14, and escapes a near-fatal car accident with scars, a bum leg, and an addiction to Oxy that'll take years to kick. The second time, she's 17, and it's no accident. Sophie and her best friend Mina are confronted by a masked man in the woods. Sophie survives, but Mina is not so lucky. When the cops deem Mina's murder a drug deal gone wrong, casting partial blame on Sophie, no one will believe the truth: Sophie has been clean for months, and it was Mina who led her into the woods that night for a meeting shrouded in mystery.
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Suspenseful! It was hard to put down!
- By Pippy13 on 11-03-19
By: Tess Sharpe
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The Last Time We Say Goodbye
- By: Cynthia Hand
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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The last time Lex was happy, it was before. When she had a family that was whole. A boyfriend she loved. Friends who didn't look at her like she might break down at any moment. Now she's just the girl whose brother killed himself. And it feels like that's all she'll ever be. As Lex starts to put her life back together, she tries to block out what happened the night Tyler died. But there's a secret she hasn't told anyone--a text Tyler sent that could have changed everything.
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Such sweet sorrow
- By Lesaly on 04-26-15
By: Cynthia Hand
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A List of Cages
- By: Robin Roe
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead, Christopher Gebauer
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he's got it made. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn't easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can't complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends. Then the doctor asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging her, and Adam discovers that the boy is Julian - the foster brother he hasn't seen in five years.
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Heart wrenching!
- By Heather Shaver on 02-28-18
By: Robin Roe
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- Ioana M. Popescu
- 05-07-12
Jesse Eisenberg's voice warms my heart. Spot on.
What did you love best about Black Heart?
Excellent story, great characters (Cassel for ever!!!) and Jesse's interpretation is perfection.
What other book might you compare Black Heart to and why?
Of course, White Cat and Red Glove.
Which character – as performed by Jesse Eisenberg – was your favorite?
Cassel!!!! His voice breaks in all the right moments. He is Cassel in my mind now :) Also, Baron!!! :D He does a great Baron voice :D
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- Karissa Eckert
- 05-16-12
Great conclusion to this series
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This is the third, and final, book in the Curse Workers series by Black. I think readers who really love this series will enjoy how the series is tied up. Things are tied up in a hopeful, yet realistic way, which I really enjoyed. I personally haven???t been a huge fan of this series, I am not bit on organized crime fantasy, but that being said I think this was the best book in the series.
I listened to this on audiobook and the audiobook was very well done. The narrator sounds exactly like I imagined Cassel would.
Cassel is trying to turn his life around and do the right thing. Sure his ex-girlfriend is forever tied to a life of crime, but Cassel is trying hard to not follow where she is going. Cassel is thinking about working for the Feds because at least they are on the good side right? But when the Feds ask him to do something with his Transformation that he swore never to do, Cassel is forced to question everything. Who is being conned and who is doing the conning? The future of his mother, his brother, and the love of his life, Lila, all depend on him sorting out what???s true and what???s a con.
Cassel just breaks your heart in this book. He is just trying so hard to do what???s right but at points what is right is incredibly hard to figure out. That???s not to say he ever gets stupid; he knows a con when he sees one and is all about conning the person pulling a con.
Lila isn???t in the beginning of the book a ton, but she does feature later on. A lot happens between her and Cassel in this book, and that is all I am going to say about that. Lila is an interesting character; her path to a life of crime doesn???t seem to bother her a ton...it???s just her life and she makes the best of it.
Cassel???s brother Barron and his mother are also in the story quite a bit. Barron is, well, he???s Barron. He???s working for the Feds but still loosing memories. Cassel???s mother is the same; she loves her sons but never seems to struggle with her morals over the decisions she makes.
This whole book is really about the struggle between being good and being bad and how there are no clear answers...everything is just too complicated.
The books ends absolutely perfectly. There are some things left unresolved, just like real life. I love how things are left between Cassel and Lila; the ending just fits the tone of the story perfectly.
Overall a great conclusion to this series. This was my favorite book of the trilogy. It ties things up nicely, has a great tangle of mysteries to engage the reader, and is just absolutely realistic in the way it ends. Fans of the series should be pleased.
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- SE
- 06-01-24
Sorry to see series end
I really enjoyed this series of books. The stories and characters were endearing, even if they did leave you rooting for the “bad guys” with good intentions each time. This one, like the first, was a little predictable but still great!
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- Kate
- 03-17-15
Brilliant end to the series.
Holly Black can try but she'll never disappoint me. I love the way she writes. Fantastic!
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- Di's Dealz & Brutal Reviews
- 11-07-22
Awesome set of book's!! PLEASE add more books!!
I love all of Holly Blacks books. I love the 'Charm Series" and "The Worker's Series! I would love to listen to more
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- Brittany
- 09-24-15
A really fun and clever series!
Just a mini-review today for BLACK HEART! I finished Holly Black’s Curse Worker series and really enjoyed it all throughout, but I sat down to write my review for BLACK HEART and found myself at a loss for words! Really, it’s just a bit of a recap of the whole series, a lot of which I said in my RED GLOVE review:
I really love the overall tone of these books! I don’t know if I’d call Cassel and anti-hero but I DO love how he’s not all “good guy”. There are definitely many shades of gray when it comes to doing the morally right thing and what exactly it means to be “right” (Legal? Illegal? Right for his family? Right for his friends? Right for himself?) and I loved that the answer wasn’t always clear!
Magic + mobsters = so much fun. I’m don’t think I’ve read many books with a mobster story line (most crime-family themes have been in passing in the books I’ve read) but this one was fun! I really liked how that played into the entire plot and involved Cassel’s family and therefore ended up pulling him into it.
I really enjoyed the magical elements of this book too! It was interesting that the Curse Workers really got pushed into crime families and it was more organized crime than vigilante justice or individual villains. And that it was hard to identify someone as a Curse Worker unless you witnessed them using their powers or that you were wearing an amulet that broke after they tried to curse you! It was a great take on the concept that really made it more urban fantasy rather than paranormal.
Overall, the series had some really interesting twists that I enjoyed BUT I also thought there was room for a few more twists. I really enjoyed everything from start to finish, though! I constantly loved the feel of the books and couldn’t praise that enough throughout my reads and reviews. The audio was a ton of fun with Jesse Eisenberg narrating and it’s one I’d recommend for a fun, snarky, and a little bit of a dark read!
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- Desert Wryter
- 06-06-19
Terrific conclusion
I've listened to Jesse Eisenberg read this about four times. He's perfect as Castle Sharp and this third book in the series has all the delight if the first two...and then some. I'm hoping that the few twigs Holly has left behind are enough to light the fire on another book or two. Or three? Thank you, Holly!
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- Dave
- 04-25-12
Can You Live Long Enough to Make The Big Score?
Holly Black concludes her Curse Workers trilogy with a bang as Cassel Sharpe finds himself playing both sides of the law - doing his best to make sure that he, his friends, and family come out of it alive. Both the mob and the feds want Cassel for the special talent he possesses, and as the story progresses, it gets harder to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
And yet - for a story involving murder, mobsters, con artists, and all other moral shades of gray - it's surprising how incredibly fun this book is.
As much as the cons and the crime, what anchors Black Heart (and the rest of this series) are the characters and their relationships. It's great to see everyone again - Sam and Danica, even when they hate each other, make you feel like you're hanging out with old friends. Lila Zacharov, now working for her father's brand of organized crime, gets to show her ruthless side, and it does not disappoint. The angst between her and Cassel is pitch-perfect - it's never in question whether or not they're in love; what you're not sure of is if it will work - whether or not they're lives are just too different. But Black does an especially excellent job of ratcheting up the complexity of Cassel's relationship to his brother Baron, making Baron one of the most compelling and interesting characters in the series. If Black comes back to these characters and this world, it would be really fascinating to see more of Baron.
Jesse Eisenberg's narration plays it all straight, his voice never giving away who is safe, who is dangerous, and who is conning you. His reading is perfect for these books.
It's a solid ending to an outstanding trilogy. I hope one day we get more Curse Workers books.
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- The Cheryl
- 10-12-21
Perfect!
I love this series. Author Holly Black, and actor Jesse Eisenberg are a perfect match!
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- Spoop spooner
- 04-09-21
so good
loved it, I wish some one would make this series in to movies. please please make at least one movie!!
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