Jinx (novel)
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Jinx is a 2007 young adult novel by American author Meg Cabot
. The novel has darker themes than Cabot's earlier best-selling The Princess Diaries
series of novels.
. Believing she was born with bad luck, she goes to stay with her Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted in Manhattan
, New York
, to escape the most recent bout of it. However, the truth is that Jean had cast a love spell on her crush (Dylan) which turned out wrongly and caused him to become stalker-ish.
Her cousin, Tory, is convinced that Jean must join her coven
of "witches". Jean denies being a witch, and refuses to join them. This angers Tory, causing her to seek revenge against her. Tory is also jealous of Jean's relationship with Zack Rosen, a hot-looking boy who lives next door. However, it is revealed that Jean might actually be the witch with special powers. Things start to turn bad, when Jean's 'stalker' turns up to her high school spring formal, and Tory and her coven kidnapping Jean for a ritual, but in the end, the real witch wins. Jean realizes that maybe she isn't that unlucky after all and the book ends with her starting a romance with Zack, who reveals he has always liked her back.
Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot is anAmerican author of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults and used to write under several pen names, but now writes exclusively under her real name, Meg Cabot...
. The novel has darker themes than Cabot's earlier best-selling The Princess Diaries
The Princess Diaries
The Princess Diaries is a series of epistolary novels by Meg Cabot in the chick-lit and young-adult fiction genre, and the title of the first volume, published in 2000....
series of novels.
Plot summary
Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch is a sixteen-year-old girl from IowaIowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
. Believing she was born with bad luck, she goes to stay with her Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, to escape the most recent bout of it. However, the truth is that Jean had cast a love spell on her crush (Dylan) which turned out wrongly and caused him to become stalker-ish.
Her cousin, Tory, is convinced that Jean must join her coven
Coven
A coven or covan is a name used to describe a gathering of witches or in some cases vampires. Due to the word's association with witches, a gathering of Wiccans, followers of the witchcraft-based neopagan religion of Wicca, is also described as a coven....
of "witches". Jean denies being a witch, and refuses to join them. This angers Tory, causing her to seek revenge against her. Tory is also jealous of Jean's relationship with Zack Rosen, a hot-looking boy who lives next door. However, it is revealed that Jean might actually be the witch with special powers. Things start to turn bad, when Jean's 'stalker' turns up to her high school spring formal, and Tory and her coven kidnapping Jean for a ritual, but in the end, the real witch wins. Jean realizes that maybe she isn't that unlucky after all and the book ends with her starting a romance with Zack, who reveals he has always liked her back.
External links
- Excerpt from Jinx, SeventeenSeventeen (magazine)Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications. News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988, and sold Seventeen to K-III Communications in 1991. Primedia sold the magazine to Hearst in 2003. It is still in the...
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