Peruse The Awakening (Jinx: Chosen, #1) Narrated By Meg Cabot In Physical Edition

Cabot consegue escrever livros fofinhos para passar o tempo,
Adorei a leitura, fácil e fluída,
Uma ótima pedida para uma leitura leve de férias,,Reread: I think three hold pretty well, This book is fairly vanilla, Honestly, it's not until the climax that things get remotely weird, It's actually probably one of the younger Cabot YAs, Or it reads later than say some of the Mediator novels and later Princess Diaries books, It was a fun one to revisit nevertheless,

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How I remember this Book: This is the book Meg Cabot went “dark”,

Yeah, Im laughing now,

Jinx is hardly dark, Oh, sure it has some dark moments and acutally deals with some sensitive issuesdrug abusebut compared to some of the stuff out there in the genre now

Hardly dark.


That doesnt mean its a bad book though, I actually had and even second time around had a fun time with Jinx,

Theres just something magical about reading a Meg Cabot book, the thing is there are books that are more magical than Jinx,

And in the forty some odd books that Cabot has had published I sort of forget about it,

The thing is, Ive been trying to reread a lot on my shelves and it was Halloween and Im doing this book project where Im rereading books preand this one just sort of stuck out.
So, I gave it a whirl again,

The result: pleasantly surprised and amused, But I do feel like Ive grown up some since this was published and its not like I was that young when it was first put to press.



I think its more or less that the genre has grown and has evolved since this books initial publication, And now something that at one time seemed so shockingly dark for a cotton candy fluff author like Cabot just seems like cotton candy fluff,

The plot itself is pretty simplistic, Jinx or Jean as she prefers to be called doesnt have the best of luck and because of this is sent to live with her relatives in Manhattan.
And theres evil cousins and witches, Oh, and cute boys.

Because a Meg Cabot book cant be complete without a cute boy,

To be honest, I cant think of one Cabot book where there wasnt a cute boy, Okay, I wasnt especially pleased with John at the beginning of the Abandon trilogy, but he grew on me, Or for that matter Alaric who I still dont really care for in the Insatiable duology, But whatever.

He was a man not a boy,

For the most part, her YA heroes are gimme gimme dibs on Jesse de Silva, bitches, And Zach fits into this category, He likes seals.


How can you not like a guy who likes seals

And his relationship with Jean isnt insta love, Sure, theres attraction there, but it doesnt go from stranger to soul mate, Its more like stranger to your sort of cute wanna get coffee

Another thing I love about Meg Cabots books is how the setting seems to become a character of its own.
I love how she depicts New York, Unlike a lot of YA and chick lit authors that try to focus on the citys glamorous side, Cabot looks at the other fun sides of the city.


In this book: the food of Central Park,

That actually sounds like it could be a Food Network show,

But I loved those little dates where Jean and Zach would go from vendor and vendor tasting what the park had to offer,

So, why isnt this the most memorable of Cabot books

Because at times it just felt like it was going through the motions.


While I did enjoy the romance and the characters, there were points where Cabot obviously played her tropes, Jean being a small town girl planted in the big city and seemingly fitting in effortlessly the Boy Next Door series, the Queen of Babble series, Jean being seemingly meek but powerful The Princess Diaries, The Abandon Trilogythough I still think Pierce is week, the Insatiable duology, Too rich to be true Manhattanites starring in the book and fawning over the main character She Went All the Way, The Heather Wells series, The Princess Diaries.
A beautiful evil mean girl Avalon High the Graphic novels, The Princess Diaries, Airhead trilogy,

Yes, I get that author tropes is going to be a crutch that the author relies on but

Come on,

Also, while the story is clearly a standalone and while I applaud and appreciate it, it sort of faded in the back of my mind because Cabot has so many great series.
Oh, Meg Cabot. One day you will write a book featuring a main character that is not completely stunted in the romantic awareness department, One who can look at the boy who is suddenly spending lots of time with her, in spite of her new country/super secret powers/general likability, and realize that maybe he, you know, has the hots for her.


On that day, I will likely propose to you on the spot,

Until then, well, . . It was cute. Teen Idol was better. Try not to make Mia too annoying in the next Princess Diaries, okay

Love,
Chelsea

Seriously though, when did you become the Nora Roberts of the teen set I hate to say it, but.
. . try something new, please. reading Meg Cabot after all these years was like a weird time travel trip: I'd never read this one it's probably the only one I never read but it still transported me back to being.


That's one down,to go on mybooks about witches challenge for septoct! Jean Honeychurch, also known as Jinx because everything that can go wrong does, whenever shes around, moves to New York to live with her relatives after breaking up with a guy from her hometown in Iowa who wont take no for an answer.
Her cousin Tory, whom Jinx remembers fondly from several years ago, is a completely different person beautiful, sophisticated, worldly, and also, really, really mean, For no good reason. After Jinx saves hot nextdoor neighbor, Zach, from being hit by a bike messenger she takes the hit herself, Tory warms up unexpectedly, She confides that she is a practicing witch, and believes Jinx may also have inherited powers from a common ancestor Bronwyn, When Jinx refuses to join her coven, and warns Tory not to use her magic for evil, however, Tory decides to make Jinxs life miserable, It doesnt help that Tory has feelings for Zach, who obviously prefers Jinx,

Jinx interferes in Torys plans binding her so that she cant hurt anyone else with her magic, Tory retaliates by using “normal” means to harass and threaten the people she sees as obstacles to her plans, She takes every opportunity to hurt and humiliate Jinx, and this culminates in her attempt to steal Jinxs powers by drinking her blood, Having finally gone too far, Tory is shipped off to boot camp in Iowa of all places, and Jinx remains in New York on scholarship, having finally embraced her powers and the fact that Zach likes her.


I absolutely hated this book, and thats something I very rarely say/feel about anything I read, I listened to the audio book edition, and I had

to fastforward through several scenes because I just couldnt stand listening to Jinx/Jean bemoan her fate and Torys evil plans anymore.
Its difficult to develop any sympathy for Jean because she has this gloomy Eeyore attitude “Everything always happens to ME, ” She blames herself for everything, too, apologizes for everything, and shes completely clueless about Zachs feelings for her common trope for a romance, It gets really old. Then theres cousin Tory, who apparently used to be nice, but has undergone this transformation into Complete Psychopathic Wench from Hell, Seriously, no one is this unrelentingly evil and manipulative unless you make the case that Tory is actually mentally ill which no one ever does, Zach, an affable character whom were supposed to like as much as Jean and Tory do, is much less appealing because its impossible to understand what he sees in Jean shes so incredibly annoying! It also feels like Jean is keeping secrets from her readers as well as everyone else throughout her story, because the big revelations that she has powers, that shes used them before, that shes guilty of misusing them like Tory pretty much happen for readers when everyone else in the book finds out.
Whats the use of being trapped in her ridiculous, annoying thoughts all the time if shes never going to let us in Dont even get me started on Jeans struggle for selfacceptance and witchy empowerment.
Whatever. She wont embrace her powers, oh no! Shes still really freaky powerful, though yay! She finally accepts who she is! Enough! Lets never, ever, ever revisit this story again.
Ive liked others of Meg Cabots novels the first couple Princess Diaries, and Avalon High so I was pretty shocked to have loathed this one so very much.
.This was cute enough, and quick enough, but it felt a little throwaway for me, I've had a number of people recommend it, and have a friend who loves it, and maybe if I'd read it when I was younger, I'd have loved it, too, but I was a little underwhelmed.
I liked it, but just, . . ツ/ I bought this book a long time ago and if I had read it then I'd probably it is enjoyed it a lot more but this book wasn't very fast paced and it wasn't a story what really kept you in tree and what was going on on it was about a girl called Jane and her cousin called Tori and their grandma being a witch and she was the witch in the family or her and Jane were both witches but apart from this there wasn't much what was going on apart from Zack's relationship with Jane as them just been friends there's not really much more to say about this book as there wasn't really much going on I really wanted to love this book because of when I got it but it just didn't Jean flees his homeland to New York to live with his uncles and cousins.
The grandmother told the granddaughters, Jean and Tory, they were descendants of great witches and that one of them would be the next generation of witches, Tory believes she is a witch, but also believes that his cousin can also be, With the arrival of Jean things start to change for Tory, Jean refuses to join the coven's cousin, "steals" the best friend, steal the guy she likes and the attention from her parents.
An interesting story but I had the misfortune to read a bad translation, becoming a little non pleasurable reading, I'd liked to have seen the story a little more developed as well as the characters. English Ebook

follows later, Read for a challenge, enjoyable story, This is the first book I've read by Meg Cabot, so I probably started off on the wrong foot with her, I've heard so many wonderful things about her Princess books, and this cover caught my eye, But as they say, you can't judge a book, . .

I found Jinx to be predictable and a little tiresome, The main character from my beloved Hawkeye state was so naive and trusting that she made me cringe, The plot didn't have anything really new to it girl meets boy, girls crushes on boy, girl gets boy, with a few witchy interludes, Run of the mill. Still I gave it two rather than one because it read quickly, and I wanted to find out what happened to Jean and Tory and Zach.
But ultimately this book felt flat, ed by Taylor Rector for TeensReadToo, com

Jean, aka Jinx, is the most unlucky person ever to live, Jinx says this about herself: "If I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all, "

And that only gets worse when she arrives in New York,

After her exboyfriend begins stalking her, she moves from her little town in Iowa to New York City to live with her aunt and uncle.
Her cousin, Tory, Jean quickly realizes, is not the same as she was five years ago, when they would climb trees together and swim in the river.
On her first day in New York she sees Tory hanging out with her friends, drinking and doing drugs,

What Jean doesn't realize at first is that Tory thinks she's a witch,

So what was it that made Jean leave her home What's up with Tory and this whole "witch" thing

JINX is Mrs, Cabot's best paranormal book yet! Jean is so funny, klutzy, and naive that it's impossible not to love her! I just could not put this book down after I turned the first page! I was even laughing when I read the first paragraph! Yet another great book from Meg Cabot, as expected!.