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Hex You
⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Genre: Fantasy
Format: Physical Book
Date Published: 1/31/23
Author: P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Pages: 304
GR: 3.51

I requested a digital advanced readers copy from NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press and providing my opinion voluntarily and unbiased.

My Thoughts: This is book number 3, and the final, in the Sisters of Salem series. These books connect with a continuing plot, so it is best to read them in order, if possible. The series continues with the sisters, Mercy and Hunter. The first book opens with the sisters being polar opposite, one is nice and one is mean. This book introduces them as both mean, their mother has passed, so this may contribute to how the characters are being portrayed. The last book ended with an open plot and this one picks up on that plot, but also develops further plots. While I enjoyed the sisters, in their opposite format, in the prior two books, in this book, they became unlikeable, again, probably for character development.

This story was fun and lighthearted. The characters were further developed in this novel with some depth, fantasy, witchy, and just well done. The author’s writing style was a lighter read with aspects of paranormal, magic, great world building, and keeps you engaged with a smaller book. The reviews on this book is that it is the best in the series, which I agree with. This was a great witchy series. I would recommend, but I would start with the first book, Spells Trouble, then Omens Bite and then this one so that you are not confused by the plot.

izzymari22's review against another edition

4.0

My heart is both so full and SHATTERED by this ending. Such a wonderful book with wonderful characters that you love along the way

marzipan9's review against another edition

3.0

The conclusion to the Sisters of Salem trilogy! Hunter and Mercy are lost to each other, both in different worlds. Mercy is trapped in the Egyptian underworld while Hunter is drowning in her mistakes and desperate to find her missing sister. Can the sisters find each other and fix the gates to each of the other realms?

This one was loads better than Omens Bite, by far. I almost didn't want to continue with the series after that one, but I'm glad I did. We get to see Hunter and Mercy make up, and for each of them to figure out their mistakes and actually try to fix them--we don't get that in a lot of YA books, or even in books in general. Mistakes (unless they drive the plot) and character flaws are glossed over, left to the side.

But then we get to the ending. I was about 40 pages from the end and confused--was this actually a series, not a trilogy? There just didn't seem to be enough pages left to do what still needed to be done. And...well, I was right and wrong. The ending was just incredibly rushed (the entire book is about healing the trees and preserving the integrity of the gates and...that is how that it's solved?) and honestly very unsatisfying. I'm still really not sure that the trees were healed or not. There were a lot of rushed, unsatisfying things in the ending.

So if you made it through Omens Bite and are wondering if it's worth it, I'd say yes it is.