School Spirits

     A spin off to the much loved Hex Hall series, Rachel Hawkins gives us School Spirits. Finley has disappeared and Isolde and Aislinn seem to be the only Brannicks left, when after 6 months of following clues and suspects lead to nothing, Aislinn decides, to return back to their ways. Ideal is a small town in Missisippi, with a haunting of its own, which is Izzy’s next task.
Adjusting to a normal life (for us that is) is hard for Izzy. It’s a constant turmoil of how to fit in with the school and keep a low profile. For someone like Izzy who has never been to school and never had friends other than her older sister (who is missing) it is hard. What she finds surprising is how quickly she makes friends and even develops a crush. Torin(guy in the mirror) and Izzy try to guess the power behind the ghost, taking help from the PMS(Paranormal Management Society). But it turns out that this haunting is not as easy as it seemed.
This book is totally different from what I expected it to be. Izzy is lovable, but I missed Sophie’s Sarcasm. Though Rachel Hawkins tries to make it funny, it is nothing like Hex hall. The characters I feel are not as well developed, and Torin is the only one who makes you want to read the sequels. And since the book does not deal with other prodigium, basically is about a ghost haunting it feels like a sublime version of R.L Stine books, except with a happier ending.