The trio of bitchy witches were manipulative and mischievous and pretty much fit in with all the other boarding school queen bee stereotypes. None of the characters were particularly stand-out. I wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t good either. There was everything you’d expect to be there: roommate drama, a school dance, training montages, cafeteria scenes. Unfortunately, as soon as Sophie got to the magical school – which is normally my favourite part of these kind of stories – things started to go down hill. The beginning of the story was really gripping, and to begin with I though I was in for something special. witches are being killed and the only vampire in the school, who just so happens to be our main character’s best friend is the only suspect. Hex Hall, however has a little mystery thrown in for good measure. Overall, it’s very similar to CC Hunter’s Shadow Falls series in the sense that a bunch of different supernaturals go to the same school. Then I read Rebel Belle, which was super fun, so I thought, why not give Hex Hall a try? The cover that I own is not great, so I can’t say I was particularly looking forward to reading it to begin with. You would not believe the amount of time that this book has just been sat on my TBR gathering dust.
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