Jinx

I really liked, this one. I don't always like Meg Cabot's books because they are a little too romantic for me, but this one had just a little. I could totally identify with the main character.

I seem to always enjoy Meg Cabot's books. I'm not quite as holy-cow-this-is-AWESOME about this one as I have been about some of the others, but I did enjoy it very much. And as far as YA books involving witchcraft, this is by far among the best I've read. Once I figured out what it was about, I expected the usual cliches that always seem to fall into these things. I was happily surprised - if there were any cliches, I didn't notice it because they were well written enough that they didn't feel like cliches.

The main thing: I'd recommend this book. I enjoyed it.

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.