Daiane's Reviews > Hex Hall

Actual Rating: 3.5 stars

It took me a while to start reading this book. My last Rachel Hawkins one didn't attracted me that much and It's not an original plot. A young witch who screw up and let humans see her magic. Firstly, how can she be that dumb to show her magic to others like nothing? Who she doesn't even know that well and is like "let me be your fairy godmother. Ops, sorry..."



Then she is sentenced to a magical boarding school for delinquent supernatural beings...



And there she makes friend with this pinky girly vampire who is her new roommate
(view spoiler)[And I loved how the homosexual card was played here. Jenna is so sweat and her relationship with Sophie was really awesome. I really liked that we have a book that finally portraits that having a gay girl friend doesn't means she will be different, or that she won't like pink or be feminine or even that she will like you. She is just a sweat friend <3 (hide spoiler)]

"This room looked like it had been decorated by the unholy lovechild of Barbie and Strawberry Shortcake.”



And falls for the hot guy who is the mean queen bee's boyfriend, who btw, has some Draco Malfoy vibe.

“It’s Archer Cross, and I’m the first one. Now what about you?” He squinted. “Let’s see . . . brown hair, freckles, whole girl-next-door vibe going on . . . Allie? Lacie? Definitely something cutesy ending in ie.”



Anyway, The first half of the book was really tiring. Sophie is too slow and sometimes she was too dumb. Although I kinda liked when she was really useless as a witch because, well, we are useless.

“I wish I could say that I suddenly discovered my inner warrior princess and expertly leaped at Archer, weapon hoisted high, teeth bared. That would have been cool.
Instead I raised the stake to about shoulder height and took two, maybe three shuffling steps forward.
Then viselike fingers clenched my throat, the stake was wrenched from my hand, and a sharp stabbing pain shot up my right thigh as I landed on the ground with a thump that knocked the breath out of me.”



However, It was full of unnecessary parts and some characters were not well explored. There were people (or monsters) that were really well introduced and they never appeared again. Or were just a cameo in the corner of the story. I also expected more from the professors. Not a Minerva McGonagall kind of development, but something. There were also things told over and over again, like the reader didn't get it the first time. And the second. And the third...



So, as all normal schools, at Hecate there were also evil bitches, I mean, witches. Sophie is called to the "coven" but... You know. We also get the hate-love plot as a bonus and things happens...



And FINALLY, at the end of second half, the book starts for me. Archer is still far away from my head. He still bothers me and how he was described, with all his hotness... I don't know, it was just too lame. I'm actually more interested in Cal...
And we get action!!!



And the plot twist, even though it's not THAT good, it's still really interesting. I wasn't expecting the end and all the mystery got me by surprise. That really increased my ratings. So yes, I recommend this book but be aware of the laziness in the beginning and all the teen feelings.

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