This review has spoilers...I am just so disgusted with this book, let me count the clichés...What is it with cookie cutter tropes these days, is there a check list out there that some authors follow thinking that their book is going to be the next best thing? I seriously hope not because I am getting damned sick of all these knock off young adult stories.We first meet Abby when she is having a nightmare on the bus, dreaming about a past life where she is being drowned as a witch. This is not the first nightmare, and she also is suffering headaches ever since she turned sixteen. Big Surprise there, but well that didn't bother me too much even though “the chosen one” just make me giggle especially after reading [b:The Midnight Mayor|6465697|The Midnight Mayor (Matthew Swift #2)|Kate Griffin|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1305862077s/6465697.jpg|6656169]. So Abby gets to school hooks up with her token smarty pants best, and only friend when she runs into her major crush Travis. He is the most cutest guy in school if you haven’t guessed, he is great at sports, nice, does charity work, and is an all around saint of a guy. It's just too bad that he is dating a harpy, Megan (who I kept picturing in my mind as Megan Fox) the reining queen of mean bitches of all trades, and soon to be our leading lady's arch nemesis.Now for a dash of love triangle, and let the drama simmer. Meet Remy the guy of Abby's dreams, literally. He is also cute, nice, but also mysterious, and sends off mixed signals. He knew her name with out her telling him, speaks in her mind, and always seems to show up where she is whenever she is on lunch break from her job.Now let me rant about Abby's power, during a school project she finds out that she is a witch. Oh and not just any old witch, she is a descendant from Sarah Good, the woman the three girls accused as a witch and set off the Salem witch trials. When doing research she finds a spell book hidden behind a library book about the trials, you don’t say, like this has never been done before time and time again?In this book of spells is a love potion, a potion of attraction, a potion to make people sick, and some other ones that I can't remember cause they were just not important. So after doing the obligatory this cant be true spell, she makes a potion of attraction to give to her crush.You don't say, like this has ever happened in pretty much any witch book, or movie ever done. The Craft, Teen Witch, Practical Magic, and Love Potion #9. Now lets reflect, has it EVER worked in any of these stories, fuck no, so why does everyone try it?Also I want to add is why the fuck would you want somebody to not really be in love with you, it's just the spell...so it's not real...what it is, is a form of mind rape? It just wrong, so very wrong. The kicker here is that she is not satisfied with the attraction spell so she goes for the big guns, and casts the love spell on Travis. Oh and not because she really wants him it's more of a revenge for something Remy has done, and a moment of biting her thumb at Megan. At this point in the book, I just really didn’t like Abby anymore. She is very selfish, and isn’t really thinking about anyone but herself. Her father has a new girlfriend, Abby hates her on site. She flaunts the fact that she has the attention of another girls boyfriend, walking through the halls and in hand, wearing his sunglasses, and going for rides even before he breaks up with Megan. Abby, not cool, so very not cool.Now for the Pièce de résistance, the epic cumulation of every high school story, PROM!Oh yeah, and prom night just happens to be on the something something anniversary of the witch trials, and a full moon. Big happenings this night, but I only want to bitch about one thing. Abby goes to prom looking beautiful with the most popular guy in school that she has spelled into loving her. So there just has to be a Carrie moment here, that just goes with out saying. In the drama of the peak of the book Remy shows up to prom to warn her that very bad things are afoot, and so she runs to the bathroom upset to be captured by Megan and her side bitches. Megan sprays her down with black spray paint, and one of the things that attach themselves to Megan's ass cuts off all her hair.This does nothing for the up coming plot, its just in there to show how mean Megan and her cronies are. That is it, just a Carrie moment just because.It was all a dream ending, no not really it happened, but when she revokes her witch powers everything goes back to normal like it never happened, and she and Remy go off into the sunset. Cause Remy is her other half, her soulmate, and just isn't bothered by trivial things like Abby casting love spells on another man.I cry bullshit, which is what this book was, I wish there were half stars because the second one is just me being generous because the writing wasn’t half bad.I got this book as an ARC from Net Galley, and want to thank Scholastic for letting me read and review this title.
