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Yet another great book by Meg Cabot. This one deals with finding out who you really are despite what everyone else is telling you, and Jinx does exactly that. It also deals a lot with peer pressure (drugs are involved in the story, along with hints at sex..though exactly what is being done sex wise is never stated..it is very easy to guess), and drinking. This book also shows you what can happen when drugs and alcohol get into your life and how jealousy can destroy you.

Very good story line and a bunch of very good lessons that this book teaches its readers.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. I sometimes felt as if I was missing a prequel or something, as it's very vague about Jinx's past until the middle of the book. I really reccomend this book, but don't be worried if you're confused at first. Maybe someday we'll get a prequel!

Reviewed 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 ex-boyfriend 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!