Series: Standalone spin-off to Hex Hall
Genera(s): Paranormal Romance/Mystery
Subjects: supernatural, ghosts, hauntings, spirits,
hunters, magic, witches
Setting: mainly in Ideal, Mississippi
POV/Tense: 1st person POV, past tense: Izzy
Brannik
Age/Grade Level: Teen
Length: 297 pgs.
HC/PB: Hardcover originally, now in Paperback
List Price: $9.99
Publisher: Hyperion
Summary/ product description: “Fifteen-year-old Izzy
Brannick was trained to fight monsters. For centuries, her family has hunted
magical creatures. But when Izzy’s older sister vanishes without a trace while
on a job, Izzy's mom decides they need to take a break.
Izzy and
her mom move to a new town, but they soon discover it’s not as normal as it
appears. A series of hauntings has been plaguing the local high school, and
Izzy is determined to prove her worth and investigate. But assuming the guise
of an average teenager is easier said than done. For a tough girl who's always
been on her own, it’s strange to suddenly make friends and maybe even have a crush.
Can Izzy
trust her new friends to help find the secret behind the hauntings before more
people get hurt?
Rachel
Hawkins' delightful spin-off brings the same wit and charm as the New York
Times best-selling Hex Hall series. Get ready for more magic, mystery and
romance!”
My Review: This
is a very fun spin-off. I am disappointed that there is no sequel to it since
the ending wasn’t completely satisfying, with Izzy’s missing sister. There’s no
cliffhanger, so it works as a standalone. Izzy Brannik was a character
introduced in Spellbound, the final Hex Hall novel. She was a tween in that
book and now she’s almost 16. So this takes place a few years after the events
of Spellbound.
Finley, her sister went missing and her mother send
Izzy out on her first job alone. She goes after a vampire, but her mom has to
save her. They find out about a violent haunting in Ideal, Mississippi and move
there. There’s a deadly ghost at the high school and Izzy gets her first chance
of going to a real school. She makes friends with the ghost-hunting club member
Romy, Dex and Anderson.
She learns about what happened to the biology teacher
that was killed. Another student in threatened similarly. Also Izzy feel magic
when she touches Dex. It’s very usually since she can usually sense Prodigium
at a distance, not only by touch. So, what is Dex? He’s quirky, fashionably
dressed, and likes to talk fancy, but he’s not a vampire or warlock and he doesn’t
smell like a werewolf. Izzy’s falling for him. He reminds me a lot of Archer
(who had blue eyes too) with his humor.
I really enjoyed this and the series that it came
from. Rachel Hawkins’s humor is pretty awesome. Sure, Izzy is more tough-girl
than Sophie, who was a total smart-alec. I notice that she uses “Fair enough”
too much and family disfunctionality stuff. Some humor is dialogue get
repetitive, but I still love it. If you never read the Hex Hall series and love
magic and paranormal romance, then you should check it out.
Cover Art Review: Funky and fun like the covers for
the previous books.
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