“I’m not perfect. I’m far from it. I’m weird. The strangest things happen around me all the time.” Watch out, Jughead, Sam is coming for you! I do NOT understand the high average rating. It was honestly SO stupid and I was looking forward to reading the second book in the series because it takes place on the Titanic. However, I cannot handle more of these characters. The main character, Sam, is a pain in the ass and the cause of many eye rolls and cringe attacks. She’s clumsy and awkward and the perfect opposite of endearing. Then there are the Descendants. A group of mean girls descendant from Salem’s witches. They always wear black and hate the main character. Adding to that, there’s one of the stupidest love triangles of all time: “I just did a spell with my next-door neighbour, and my best friend’s a spirit – who I’ve kissed.” The ghost is “tuned in” to her, so he always knows where she is. Creepy much? Coincidentally, the son of her next-door neighbour is also in love with her. And she’s the only one who can see the spirit, so there were many awkward and cringey moments. And while I’m on the topic of cringey moments: there was a party where EVERYONE got a rash, except, of course, the main character. Every single partygoer assumed she bit them. She herself “always assumed the rash somehow manifested by itself, like a sign of the apocalypse or something.” Absolutely ridiculous.

Group silence can be a death sentence... This book was... weird. Maybe I'm too stupid (or too tired) to get it but I felt completely lost during more than half of the book. I mean, I knew from the start that there was something wrong with the villain of the story and I got what drove'em in the end but during the read it all felt totally random. The characters aren't easy as well. Sam is lonely and doesn't know how to make friends (not bad in itsself, but I found her so annoying), Jaxon is weird and Vivian's just mean and frankly, I don't know what Sam's dad saw in her. Elijah - now he's cool. He's got just the right kind of mysterious and I'd loved to see more of him. Well, what kinda makes me look forward to another book about Sam? The last word of this novel. See ya all on the Titanic!