I started reading Hex Hall after I finished The Fame Game last night and that got me the whole afternoon. I'm at the library and picked up Starstruck, the second book in the trilogy.
Hex Hall was a superb book. It followed Sophie Mercer, who I did a Quote of the Day about earlier as she gets herself sent to Hecate Hall a place for witches, warlocks, faeries, and shapeshifters.As always, the summary of the book first.
Summary: Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father--an elusive European warlock--only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her punishment to be exiled to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.
By the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a gorgeous warlock, a creepy tagalong ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most hated person and only vampire student on campus. Worse, Sophie soon learns that a mysterious predator has been attacking students, and her only friend is the number-one suspect.
As a series of blood-curdling mysteries starts to converge, Sophie prepares for the biggest threat of all: an ancient secret society determined to destroy all Prodigium, especially her.
So as I was browsing for the summary of the first book, I accidently found the summary for the overall series and seriously, Wikipedia messes with your brain. Too many spoilers are never good when you haven't gotten to the whole series.
Let's start with the prom thing that got Sophie to Hex Hall in the first place. Side note: never try to help someone with a love spell because they'll just point out that you're a witch/ warlock in the end. I think it was seriously cliché thing where the girl that was supposed to be "helped" decided that it was great to blame the girl that wanted to do a simple love spell to help her with the tears.
Now, that can get someone landed into a place for "kids with problems" until they reach 18.
I personally think this book had enough drama and mystery which is solved to create an anticipating mood for the entire book. It's also great to find out which characters aren't who they actually seem to be.
The book itself had what every normal -well, not every normal person because this is paranormal teen life- person feels.
The surprise is surprises are crazy near the end of the story. It's like no one thought it would happen except Rachel Hawkins puts you through the suspense. Now, I won't go into spoilers so I'll just think generally.
Hex Hall had me head over heels in love with it. The adventure and sci-fi is what makes everything great. Look, everything says that there are magical creatures and magic itself all around Sophie. The girl herself is a witch with black magic. Her roommate is a vampire, who is even more of a monstrous creature than the werewolf. Oh, heads up! Jenna Talbot isn't into guys (she's the vamp).
Sophie develops a crush on Archer Cross (seriously, that name!) Who didn't see that coming though? The guy that saves her from the werewolf on her first day on campus is Archer. They get detention together in the cellar. I'm just stating facts, but you get where I'm going with this right? I'll take that as a yes.
Moving on, she gets asked to join a coven of girls that use black magic. That's your clique of hateful girls. So there you get the b*tches too for the lack of better words.
The rest of the almost-murders will be covered when you read the book. I'm not going to give anything away.
Signed,Iz
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