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Hex Hall (Hex Hall, #1)

Rachel Hawkins

Start date: October 1, 2013

Finish date: October 31, 2013

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May 17, 2017 Talia Dominguez Castro rated it it was amazing

Shelves: zread-in-2017

According to the book description: Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her human 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 dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries ...more

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Apr 04, 2010 Melissa rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal-magical-beings, paranormal-magic-users, 2010

At first I thought this was going to be a fluff version of all the other high school for magic doer books, but I really enjoyed it. There was humor, mostly in the humor (Aka sarcasm) of the main character, Sophie. I actually laughed put loud very times. But, it was also a good mystery. I did figure out what was going on before Sophie did, and the climax was basically Sophie having a "duh" moment lol if you enjoyed The Summoning this would be a book match for you...similar vein of a story but tol ...more

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Feb 10, 2012 Anna rated it it was ok

more 2.5 stars.

I really really really, wanted to like this book. I heard so many good things about it. And to be fair I did enjoy it somehow, but for some reason, just couldn't get into it. There were a lot of things that seemed half-explained, and I think it's good to leave things hanging for the next book, I just didn't really believe how the author approached all of the climatic events.

I will continue to read the series, because I'm interested to see what Hawkins takes us. I'm interested to s ...more

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