I did feel that some aspects of her story were rushed, and it felt like we jumped around a bit – location wise and narrative wise. Our protagonist Sophie was her usual sarcastic self, and I LOL’d many times at her witty one liners, though you get a sense of her beginning to put the humour-masking-fear reaction aside by the end of the novel, showing some of the growth her character is moving through. While I loved ‘ Spell bound’ and found it thoroughly entertaining and clanged the bells for all things YA that I lurve, there was that little something when I finished that whispered in my head that I was needing something bigger… Maybe I was expecting more of an emotional note? Am I getting spoiled for choice in my reading habits and continually raising the bar in what amazes me? Who knows exactly. but it still felt like it was missing something.

It was all kinds of crazy and culminated in epicness. It was still Hawkins’ phenomenal writing, and the epic battle scene was amazeballs, but it felt like it was over in the blink of an eye after a massive build-up. We still get a few unexpected twists, but for me this conclusion wasn’t as quite as fantastic as I thought it would be. Still loving this trilogy, the humour, the sass, the magical goings-on. Sophie’s bound for one hell of a ride-can she get her powers back before it’s too late? But without her magic, Sophie isn’t as confident. The Brannicks know an epic war is coming, and they believe Sophie is the only one powerful enough to stop the world from ending.

Or at least that’s what Sophie thinks, until she makes a surprising discovery. Now Sophie is defenseless, alone, and at the mercy of her sworn enemies-the Brannicks, a family of warrior women who hunt down the Prodigium. Just as Sophie Mercer has come to accept her extraordinary magical powers as a demon, the Prodigium Council strips them away. The final book in the Hex Hall trilogy brings all the gouls to the yard.

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