“What kind of goat sorcery is this?”

63. Hex – Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

I have now read three books called Hex. This is the one I liked the least. I expected it to be clever and instead it was really familiar in that “self-pity and bad decisions on a college campus/don’t you know your place in society is not with the rich academics” way. So many reviews were so positive and the whole poisonous plants angle sounded like it would be a fun twist on a campus novel, like what if someone did something with the poisonous plants (perhaps creating a hex…) and didn’t just wallow in their failures while making more failure-suited decisions, but it really didn’t make much of a difference that Nell was into plants. It was just normal academia bullshit but with some descriptions of poisonous plants.

This picture of Peregrine with her light up pumpkin through the cardboard haunted house window is more dynamic and has more witchy energy and more poison(ous glare) than this entire book. Peregrine’s dissertation would have been killer.