Hexed

Hexed is by debut author Michelle Krys and is the first of The Witch Hunter series.

If high school is all about social status, Indigo Blackwood has it made.  Sure, her quirky mom owns an occult shop, and a nerd just won't stop trying to be her friend, but Indie is a popular cheerleader with a football-star boyfriend and a social circle powerful enough to ruin everyone at school.  Who wouldn't want to be her?

Then a guy dies right before her eyes.  And the dusty old family Bible her mom is freakishly possessive of is stolen.  But it's when a frustratingly sexy stranger named Bishop enters Indie's world that she learned her destiny involves a lot more than pom-poms and parties.  Id she doesn't get the Bible back, every witch on the planet will die.  And that's seriously bad news for Indie, because according to Bishop, she's a witch too.

Suddenly force into a centuries-old war between witches and sorcerers, Indie's about to uncover the many dark truths about her life- and a future unlike any she ever imagines on top of the cheer pyramid.

The Breakdown:
1. Overall the plot of Hexed was decent with some good twist and interesting concepts, but there are some things that Krys does not explain well, and her characters kind of kill my interest. First, I felt she never gave a really good explanation of the difference between witches and sorcerers. Plus why in the world do the sorcerers think that Indigo places a spell on the Bible when she has just come into her powers, that never made any sense to me.

2. Honestly, I was not really a fan of Indigo.  In the beginning, especially, she comes off as a popular snob, and her best friend, Bianca, is more like a frenemy, and her boyfriend is a tool.  She is mean to her neighbor, Paige, who has never been anything but nice to her.  Plus it seems like every few pages she is crying, and just wanted her to man up and do something about her problems besides crying.

3. Speaking of Paige, she is in the beginning, and her and Indigo make up and become bff's, but then she totally disappears for the middle third only to show back up at the end.  It seems like if they were suddenly such good friends, that there would have been more interactions between them.

4. Bishop is the redeeming character of this book.  I liked his attitude, and his style.  He can be very serious and sweet when he wants to be.

To Read or Not to Read:
Skip it

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