2 Stars
My apologies in advance for what you are about to read. When I find my feelings about a book I’m reading are on the “meh” side, I tend to lose focus easily. I space out and take a lot of reading breaks. Sometimes the result of those distractions is a complete crap gif-filled mess instead of a review.
Sophie was just trying to cast a love spell that would make the quarterback ditch his cheer captain date and take the most unpopular girl at school from zero to hero.
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648525.gif)
Unfortunately, the spell worked a little too well . . .
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648526.gif)
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648527.gif)
That failed attempt at witchcraft is the final straw for Sophie’s (human) mother and absentee (warlock) father. Sophie now has to finish her schooling at Hecate Hall, a reform school for Prodigium who can’t keep their powers under wraps.
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648528.gif)
Upon her arrival, Sophie meets some mean girls
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648529.gif)
who want her to join their coven
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648530.gif)
but she’s not so sure they are the type of girls she wants to be associated with
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648531.jpg)
Rather than joining a clique ofbitches witches, Sophie befriends her roommate Jenna – a vampire who is believed to have killed a former student.
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648532.jpg)
Sophie doesn’t believe Jenna could be a murderer, but when additional students start being attacked – with two holes on their neck, no less – it seems there must indeed be a blood drinker of sorts on the loose.
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648533.gif)
(That image is for all the ladies. You’re welcome.)
The story gets a little convoluted as it jumps from mystery solving to every day teenage witch activity complete with some broomstick riding
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648534.gif)
and spell learning
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648535.gif)
to really everyday normal teenage behavior like getting super stoked about the upcoming All Hallows Eve Ball
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648536.gif)
where the girls’ dream dresses seem to have been inspired by “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding”
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648537.gif)
All in all this wasn’t a terrible book, but I’m not a fan of book series in general and I’m really not a fan of reading 323 pages where 200+ probably could have been cut and combined with book #2. I continue to cross my fingers and hope this trend will pass and authors will only be signed to produce one book at a time. Hopefully the result will be books that aren't always soooooooo open ended.
Off topic: In my quest to hunt down what seems to be every witch-related picture/gif on the interwebs, I discovered a couple of things. First, Nicole Kidman has really jacked her face up with surgery/botox/whatever.
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648538.gif)
Second, I need to watch “The Witches of Eastwick” again (and hot diggity dog was Susan Sarandon smoking hot in that movie).
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648539.jpg)
Sophie was just trying to cast a love spell that would make the quarterback ditch his cheer captain date and take the most unpopular girl at school from zero to hero.
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648525.gif)
Unfortunately, the spell worked a little too well . . .
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648526.gif)
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648527.gif)
That failed attempt at witchcraft is the final straw for Sophie’s (human) mother and absentee (warlock) father. Sophie now has to finish her schooling at Hecate Hall, a reform school for Prodigium who can’t keep their powers under wraps.
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648528.gif)
Upon her arrival, Sophie meets some mean girls
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648529.gif)
who want her to join their coven
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648530.gif)
but she’s not so sure they are the type of girls she wants to be associated with
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648531.jpg)
Rather than joining a clique of
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648532.jpg)
Sophie doesn’t believe Jenna could be a murderer, but when additional students start being attacked – with two holes on their neck, no less – it seems there must indeed be a blood drinker of sorts on the loose.
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648533.gif)
(That image is for all the ladies. You’re welcome.)
The story gets a little convoluted as it jumps from mystery solving to every day teenage witch activity complete with some broomstick riding
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648534.gif)
and spell learning
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648535.gif)
to really everyday normal teenage behavior like getting super stoked about the upcoming All Hallows Eve Ball
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648536.gif)
where the girls’ dream dresses seem to have been inspired by “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding”
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648537.gif)
All in all this wasn’t a terrible book, but I’m not a fan of book series in general and I’m really not a fan of reading 323 pages where 200+ probably could have been cut and combined with book #2. I continue to cross my fingers and hope this trend will pass and authors will only be signed to produce one book at a time. Hopefully the result will be books that aren't always soooooooo open ended.
Off topic: In my quest to hunt down what seems to be every witch-related picture/gif on the interwebs, I discovered a couple of things. First, Nicole Kidman has really jacked her face up with surgery/botox/whatever.
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648538.gif)
Second, I need to watch “The Witches of Eastwick” again (and hot diggity dog was Susan Sarandon smoking hot in that movie).
![](https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1393016387/8648539.jpg)
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