I am trying desperately to read Young Adult books along with all of the other things I want to read, just so I will have some knowledge of what to recommend young readers. Sometimes there are great books, like the Book Thief, and other times there are just entertaining reads like Hex Hall. The idea is a school for magical kids who have used their powers in ways that could call attention to the society of magical people to its detriment. So kind of a reform school for the magically endowed teens. The main character is a witch. At her last school she tried to help out an awkward female classmate by casting a love spell and it went disastrously wrong. Now she is at Hex Hall - her roommate is the only Vampire allowed in the school, and someone is killing witches! Plus she has a crush on a guy with a girlfriend and is being illegally tutored by the ghost of a dead relative at night in the graveyard nearby! If it sounds ridiculous, it is. But it was also escapist and harmless and entertaining. And I like the idea of a reform school with magical kids in it. Kinda genius :). Anyway, sounds like it is the first in a series and I'll definitely hang around for future adventures.
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