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I was completely impressed by Meg Cabot with this book. I thought it was going to be a fluffy, pointless, fun novel. It turned out being serious, hilarious, adventurous, and exciting all at once. One of my favorites by her. :D
Guilty pleasure, I will forever love meg cabot, don't judge me
Read this years ago, I borrowed it from the library and realised this after spending 10 minutes looking for it!! Anyway, I remember enjoying this and had a strange dislike for Tory, I can't remember why but I did.
I love Meg Cabot because even though I'm 24 and this book is terribly unbelievable and by my time estimate it takes place in about a month or so --- I still like her book. It's enjoyable. It's cute. My favorite part is just cheesy: "He had me at 'I like seals.'"
I think there's something about Cabot's books that are truly at the heart of more than being a teenager - about being a girl. Not nearly as poetic as her contemporary Sarah Dessen, Meg Cabot's genius is in her straddling of fantasy/science fiction elements...weaving them into slightly outlandish young adult tales in full comedy.
I think there's something about Cabot's books that are truly at the heart of more than being a teenager - about being a girl. Not nearly as poetic as her contemporary Sarah Dessen, Meg Cabot's genius is in her straddling of fantasy/science fiction elements...weaving them into slightly outlandish young adult tales in full comedy.
I thought the premise for this book was cool and interesting and I was really excited to see where Meg Cabot would take these characters but this just didn't work for me. The biggest problem with her books is, as always, that she writes literally every single main character the exact same way- every narrator she's ever written is the same awkward in love, clumsy, sarcastic person. If she tried something different with the main character here, it unfortunately still wouldn't save this book which spends far too much time on teen romance and little on the actual magic that happens. If you want a teen witchcraft book, try something else that might actually spend more time on witchcraft.
I read many Meg Cabot books, she is a wonderful author. Out of all I've read up till now (I am not counting the Abandon Trilogy because I still have to read Awaken) Jinx is my favorite.
Meg doesn't open up the secret of Jean in the starting of story, she does it near the ending thus prolonging the suspense. So you don't feel like keeping it back on your shelf. It's like a one-day complete book; if you read it in your holidays that is. The description - like in every Meg's book - is detailed so it gives you a clear picture in your mind of what is happening in the book.
It's about witchcraft, one of my favorite things to read about and it's not old witchcraft with antique cauldrons and pointed hats. It's modern witchcraft in which the witches go to school, do homework and also jump in front of a car to save some guy they have only just met.
Meg doesn't open up the secret of Jean in the starting of story, she does it near the ending thus prolonging the suspense. So you don't feel like keeping it back on your shelf. It's like a one-day complete book; if you read it in your holidays that is. The description - like in every Meg's book - is detailed so it gives you a clear picture in your mind of what is happening in the book.
It's about witchcraft, one of my favorite things to read about and it's not old witchcraft with antique cauldrons and pointed hats. It's modern witchcraft in which the witches go to school, do homework and also jump in front of a car to save some guy they have only just met.
Some day Meg Cabot will write a teenage female main character who is not a)ridiculously naive b)emotionally stunted and/or c)romantically oblivious. I'll take any or all of the above - though a Meg Cabot book that contained all of those requirements would probably cause me drop said book on my foot in utter shock. Since my foot is doing ok, this book obviously treads the same path as other books by this author.
Leaving the above request aside, it's not a bad book. The basic plot idea has lots of potential and it has it's cute moments. It's just that somewhere along the way all of that basically gets lost. Jean's my life sucks lamentations and complete cluelessness in regards to Zach left me rolling my eyes more often than not. While I figured out the why behind Jean's move to New York pretty early on, it took almost the entire book to get the actual explanation. All things that will make me thinking twice before picking up the author's next book.
Leaving the above request aside, it's not a bad book. The basic plot idea has lots of potential and it has it's cute moments. It's just that somewhere along the way all of that basically gets lost. Jean's my life sucks lamentations and complete cluelessness in regards to Zach left me rolling my eyes more often than not. While I figured out the why behind Jean's move to New York pretty early on, it took almost the entire book to get the actual explanation. All things that will make me thinking twice before picking up the author's next book.
reading Meg Cabot after all these years was like a weird time travel trip: I'd never read this one (it's probably the only one I never read) but it still transported me back to being 14.
That's one down, 12 to go on my 13 books about witches challenge for sept-oct!
That's one down, 12 to go on my 13 books about witches challenge for sept-oct!
I hate that this isn't a series, like so much of Cabot's work.