This is the second of the projected Hex Hall Trilogy, preceded by Hex Hall.
Last time around, Sophie learned she was a witch, and got dumped into reform school. By the end of term, she learned she was actually a demon, so was her dad, and that her powers were orders of magnitude higher (and darker) than she was prepared to deal with. Once her headmaster told her about the Removal, which will either remove her powers, or simply kill her, she was on the first flight to England to sign up.
Nothing goes smoothly in the life of a YA heroine in an urban fantasy book rife with demons, fae, and dangerous monster-hunters, so of course, her plan goes awry from the start.
With Jenna (the pinkest vampire who ever lived) by her side, Sophie marches straight into plot twists, betrayals, and love-triangles galore. I wasn't even overly put off by the love triangle, which should say a lot for how well this was constructed.
Mystical devices and haunting pasts play a large part in this installment, and Sophie ends up, literally on her own, facing the final book of the trilogy with a huge amount of the plot still unresolved, and a surprising amount left mysteriously un-dealt-with. Not sure if this bodes well or poorly for the last book, or if this signals a bloat into a quartet, but I have to say that I am interested.
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