|a Interpersonal relations |v Juvenile fiction. |a After a prom-night spell goes badly wrong, witch Sophie Mercer is exiled to an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, supernaturally gifted teenagers, where she learns that an unknown predator has been attacking students.
|a Originally published: New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, ©2010. (Mar.|a BTCTA |b eng |c BTCTA |d LKC |d OCLCQ |d BDX |d YDXCP |d OCLCF |d OCLCO |d CZL |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO The ending satisfies while paving the way for future books. Sophie stumbles into answers more than searches them out, but the story is well paced and plotted with tween-friendly humor and well-developed characters, particularly awkward but compassionate Sophie.
When attacks on students get pinned on Jenna, Sophie is determined to find the true culprit. She hits it off with her vampire roommate, Jenna, but three gorgeous and powerful witches have declared Sophie an enemy (she nicknames them the “Witches of Clinique”) she has a wicked crush on someone else's boyfriend and at least one teacher is out to get her. But when, at age 16, Sophie makes a very public error with a love spell at the prom, she is sent to Hecate Hall, “the premier reformatory institution for Prodigium adolescents” (aka troubled shape-shifters, faeries, and witches like Sophie). With no training on how to use the powers inherited from her absent warlock father, Sophie Mercer keeps making rookie mistakes that force her mother to move them around the country to avoid attention.
Hawkins's proficient and entertaining debut is jam-packed with magical creatures and mystery.
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