Title: Hex Hall
Author: Rachel Hawkins
Year: 2009
Synopsis:
When Sophie Mercer, aged sixteen years, she discovers she's a witch, she imagines a life full of magic, fun y. .. well ... Brooms! But his first attempt at a love spell goes disastrously wrong and as punishment, Sophie is sent to Hecate "Hex Hall", a reform school for witches, shapeshifters, and faeries.
the end of his first day among their peers, Sophie has everything: three powerful enemies seem supermodels, is slightly in love with a beautiful witch, there's a ghost that follows him everywhere, and a roommate who happens to be the more hated around the campus and is la'unica vampire.
worst thing is that Sophie will soon learn that a mysterious predator is attacking students and his only friend is the prime suspect ...
Review:
WOW just wow. At last some adolescents who filled my eye completely and it did not mourn at sea (read: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver). Hallelujah!
At first glance, the plot a bit caught my attention: I love the magic (I was a fan of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, the witch Mildred disastrous and all the stories before HP style) ... but since I found that Harry Potter magic today + adolescents: a possible emotional wreck. So I had my doubts about this book (the teen books have disappointed me lately). But thank God, and Hecate, menosvaloré this book.
writer's style is easy to read, light, witty, funny and powerful all at the same time. Not one of my favorite authors of all time, but space is definitely among the best teen authors I read. I caught from the prologue, just could not let go and I finished in one day.
The story is good. I'm not saying that is one hundred percent pure originality (School of witches and paranormal ... there are many examples of that) but has its own twist that makes it unique. Leaving aside this detail, the story is very interesting. It is a mystery mixed with romance, a comedy, a teen and magic book ... LOT of magic: D: D.
The people are well made. I love Sophie, I can identify much with it. Likewise, the relationships between them are not loaded with emotional and pathos that comes from the phenomenon invading HP. Yes, there is romance, yeah, the chick is a social desdaptada, if you suffer and cry a lot ... but more fun that suffers and that's important. Most of the story, the villain (or villains) have little joke: they only offer adolescents vexatious. But then you realize that these are just bonus characters, the real villain is powerful (poderosisisisimo) and more powerful yet so close to the main character ... chanchanchaaaaan!. The guy has a pretty interesting and mysterious context, the thinkit Guapito is not your typical books, this is more fun. I love the vampirita ... ta crazy! xD I actually identify with it too much, gave me very tenderly.
The cover ... There are a lot of covers on the market, from which comes the translation into English (which I think it has nothing to do with the story itself) to another that I thought that racism was all the way down and is somewhat confusing (on the cover leaving three Caucasian girls: one blonde with purple streaks, the plant is blonde with pink streaks (I think that is Jenna) and the other is brown ... if they wanted to represent the three witches of the covenant, they lacked the African-American, if they wanted to represent Sophie, Jenna Elodi y. ..? ? Jenna put as principal and became one of the other two blonde xS !!!). I read the book cover is in this review and, indeed, is what I find most beautiful and most suited to the details of the story (except the cat, that has nothing to do there.) I really liked.
The ending was the perfect end to this kind of story, the adventure ends, kills the villain, everything is in order ... but shows a plan of action for the next book. I liked it.
Overall, the book seems to me a mixture of Sabrina, Harry Potter, The Witch and Monster High disastrous, but with an original and fresh. Welcome cocktail, two to bring sirvanme xD. It is the best version of HP I've read: P (joke)
I give him a super five.
A breath of fresh air among so mellow-adolescentoide pathetic.
Oh, lo olvidaba... encontré el libro para descarga si a alguien le interesa.
http://www.quedelibros.com/libro/72612/Hex-Hall.html
yo no poseo este link, solo distribuyo lo que encontré en internet.
Espero les guste... abur!
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