Time for another Road Trip Wednesday, sponsored by YA Highway. This week’s theme is Best Book of the Month – October.
Fortunately for this month’s winner, I apparently finished Paranormalcy at the end of September. I read some good books this month, trying to stay Halloween-themed, but only one had me really hooked. That was Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins. This was a big surprise for me.
The book seemed kind of fluffy when I looked at it, but I just kept looking. So finally I previewed it on my Kindle. I was having fun, so I bought the full thing. As usual I was reading five things at once, but when I stopped to focus on Hex Hall, I got hooked really easily.
Which made it really too bad when I dropped the Kindle and killed it at chapter 8. The screen was all black with some white lines through it, and the casing was open at the corner. I didn’t know if Amazon was going to replace it or not, so I thought that it was possible I was never going to get to finish this book.
Luckily, the Kindle was replaced quickly, and the first thing I pulled out of the archive on the new one was this book.
I wouldn’t say that Hex Hall was the most intelligent read or anything, but I had a lot of fun reading it, and since a lot of fantasy has me rolling my eyes instead of just enjoying it, that’s a real plus.
My favorite thing was probably the best friend. A vamp who wasn’t too angsty (except when she was falsely accused of killing people, and even then she was better than many vamps with consciences), liked hot pink, was a lesbian, and basically seemed as normal a best friend as any vampire ever was. Also, I felt the romance was well built up. Not as adorable as Paranormalcy by a long shot, but it was nice to see that they were being forced to spend a lot of time getting to know each other before they moved from lust-hate to potential romance.
Sadly, none of my pre-Halloween reading has really scared me. I was looking for that one book that would bring the magical creepiness that reading scary books as a kid created, but nothing delivered
As for the next month’s RTW, we’ll see what happens in November. NaNo doesn’t leave much reading time, so I don’t know how many I’ll read in November.
Currently on iPod: Under Your Spell from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Lots of love,
Sage
Sage, Like the Spice 
there really should be more lesbian vampires in hot pink.
just sayin.
Hex Hall is a book I’ve seen at the bookstore a lot but never really considered reading. Maybe I’ll give it a chance.
Have you read The Devouring? That was a good creepy read but it’s better suited for Christmas than Halloween.