She has just survived her first year at Hecate Hall, “a.k.a. If Buffy and Spike had had a love child, she might be Sophie she’s pretty, snarky, kick-butt, and…demonic. Recommend Kiersten White’s Paranormalcy (HarperTeen) or Brenna Yavanoff’s The Replacement (Penguin, both 2010) for those looking for slightly darker selections.- Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK Girls who like their spooky stuff with a touch of frothy sweetness rather than drunk straight from the vein will find this novel delicious. Quick, sarcastic humor spices up the “does he like me or is he just using me to kill my demon father” angst. It’s all just too much for one 16-year-old to deal with. Archer Cross, the demon-hunter-in-training on whom she had an ill-advised crush, reappears, seemingly on a mission to destroy her, and her father begins to groom her to be his successor as head of the Council and announces her betrothal to Cal, the 19-year-old groundskeeper of Hecate Hall. When her previously absentee father demands her presence at the headquarters of the Prodigium Council, the summer holidays really heat up for Sophie and her blood-sucking best friend, Jenna. Juvie for Monsters,” and has reluctantly begun to come to terms with her paranormal nature.

Some of these questions are answered in an explosive, world-inverting finale-which, along with the questions that remain, will have readers counting down the days to the next Hex Hall installment.Hawkins keeps upping the intrigue: How is it that ghosts can’t see or hear the living, but Elodie’s ghost keeps trying to talk to Sophie? Why does Sophie’s upcoming summer destination, Thorne Abbey, sound so familiar? And how-and, more importantly, why-did Daisy and Nick, two teenagers suffering from retrograde amnesia, get turned into demons?.(When a vampire orders Earl Grey at high tea, Sophie cracks, he’ll actually get Earl Grey.) Sophie Mercer continues to win over readers-and warlocks-with her arch sense of humor.and multi-limbed ghouls, creepy demons, and necromancy. Rachel Hawkins’s sequel to Hex Hall combines everything fans could ask for: a sprawling and splendorous castle (thirty-one kitchens! ninety-eight bathrooms!), a hot love triangle, an enchanted ball.

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