Book: Jinx by Meg Cabot

Pages: 262 (Hardcover)

What I Thought: Jinx is about Jean Honeychurch, a preacher’s daughter who moves to New York City (from Iowa) in order to escape a stalker.  Jean has the nickname of Jinx, because she has a lot of bad luck.  Her cousin Tory has a lot more issues than the last time Jean saw her, a lot of which are revealed in the book. 

It was a fast read, but I found Jean slightly annoying- she was really naive, and for someone who was being stalked, she seemed to relatively fine.  I don’t know what it’s like being stalked, but I imagine it’s something that would have some sort of effect, no matter how much distance is between the two.

Tory was an interesting character- she called Dylan, the guy who was stalking Jean, and asked him to be her date to the spring formal.  It was all to get back at Jean, who she had a vendetta against for most of the book.  Tory had this whole plan to tie up Jean, drink a few drops of her blood, and then force Jean to drink a poisonous potion so that Tory could get Jean’s magical powers.  Jean is a witch, and Tory pretended she was one. 

Honestly, I did like it, but Jean was just too innocent for me, and I didn’t feel like there was a lot of depth to her.  She seemed sweet, but really insecure, and not willing to go to her aunt and uncle even though she knew Tory was taking prescription drugs and even after Tory put a dead rat in her locker.  It was definitely predictable (as Meg Cabot’s books tend to be), but still enjoyable.

My Rating: 3 out of 5.  I liked it, but something was missing.  It was still pretty fun to read though.