This book was great! The first one was OK, but this one was just great, I really enjoyed it and even laughed out loud -- A LOT! Sophie is an awesome character, a badass chick with some scary whoa-powers, and Jenna, her best friend who happens to be a vampire, also awesome (and she's totally an 'out' lesbian with a girlfriend and everything!). Aside from the awesomeness of non-male main characters, Sophie's sarcastic wit and commentary are AMAZING!

For example, the following phrases are actually printed in this book:
"face touchage"
"lame-sauce"
"Sulky McSulkerton"

su-weet.

As for witty humor and sarcastic phrasology, also numerous and laugh-out-loud worthy:
"'Irish girls, red hair,' I replied, remembering a picture of them from Mrs. Casnoff's 'People Who Want to Kill Us All' lecture at Hex Hall last year."

"'I [dad] spent hours on the phone. Do you know with whom?'
'One of those psychic hotlines?' Dad gritted his teeth. 'If only...'"

"'Cryptic Dad is cryptic,' I muttered ... We'd hung out all day today. Was there no time in there he could have said, 'Oh, hey, meet me at the magical bookcase at the butt-crack of dawn tomorrow, cool?'"

"'Dad, she's just going to freak. And probably come here and get me, and then you guys will start yelling at each other, and I'll have to act out by wearing lots of eyeliner and doing the drugs ...'"

"I expected him to do his usual thing of 'Oh, Sophie, but that is impossible b/c of this big word, and that big word, and also this abstract concept.'"

And so much more! It's great!

In closing: Read this book. Get on board with the Hex Hall series, it's just so cool it'll "hurt your feelings" (as one witty co-worker recently said).