Overall Rating:3 Stars
Date Finished: November 23, 2016
The concepts of this book were very unique and fascinating. People have "gifts" that allow them to change people with just a touch of a hand. Change their emotions, change their memories, change their luck, change their physical appearance, even kill them with just a touch of a finger.
The main character comes from a family of con artists and mafia hit men. He's used to running schemes but then he realizes that he is being conned, and by his own family.
Now, the plot itself is fine, there's some scheming and twists and risk taking but it still didn't feel fully satisfying at the end. Part of it is the fact that he still winds up stuck working for a mob boss for the rest of his life. Part of it is how things end with his family. They lied to him and used him for years and yet he just lets them gets away with it, even trades himself for them. And then he ends living with his psychotic mother and running schemes with her.
He did some great stuff and improved throughout the book, only to revert back to same old pushover he was at the beginning. Frustrating.
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