Jinx  (English, Paperback, Cabot Meg)

Jinx is a romantic, magical thriller for teenagers revolving around a teenage witch who is vulnerable to misfortunes and thus named Jinx.

Summary Of The Book

Published in 2007, Jinx is another of Meg Cabot’s young adult novel. The story revolves around a teenage protagonist named Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch. She is a sixteen-year-old girl who is prone to misfortunes. She believes she was born with bad luck and since her day of birth in Iowa.

Soon she is forced to move from her hometown to be with her Uncle Ted and Aunt Evelyn in New York, after a boy starts stalking her. She believes that she is responsible for casting a spell on the boy that made him fall for her. As she takes on the journey to New York, she expects to get rid of all the misfortunes and stay away from magic but soon her hopes are to be shattered. 

In New York, she figures out that her cousin Tory is into magic, is on drugs, and is friends with the wrong people. She tries to stay away from her cousin but the story takes a turn when she falls for a senior named Zach, who is a friend of Tory. Jean happens to save Zach from a bad accident, with the help of a premonition, and soon Tory realizes that Jean is not as ordinary as she pretends to be.

Tory compels Jean to join their group to enhance the power of their coven of witches. Jean, on the other hand, is not ready to accept that she is a witch and denies joining the group. Tory gets further annoyed because of Jean’s affection towards Zach whom Tory loves. Tory burns with rage and decides to take a drastic revenge.

As the story further unfolds, Jinx has to go through the darker sides of magic and has to deal with voodoo dolls and dead rats. She comes to terms with the fact that Tory is hiding something dangerous that could be harmful for everybody involved. Will Tory be able to destroy Jinx and take her revenge? Will the fact that she is a witch help Jinx in any manner to come out of all this?

Jinx is a story filled with magic, romance, revenge, and thrill – elements that are sure to spell a cast on not only the young but even the adult readers!

About Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot is an award-winning American author famously known for her paranormal and romantic fiction targeted for teenagers.

Apart from Jinx, she has authored more than fifty books till date. Some of them are The Princess Diaries, The Mediator series, All-American series, The Airhead trilogy, The Abandon trilogy, Moving Day, The New Girl, The Boy Next Door, Blast From the Past, Avalon High series, Every Boy's Got One, Heather Wells series, Where Roses Grow Wild, and many more. She has also published several short stories.

Born in 1967 in United States, Meg Cabot is a graduate from Indiana University. She started her career as an illustrator and then became an assistant manager at New York University. Many of her books have been adapted into movies and she has won several awards. She is associated with the Starlight Children’s Foundation and the Make-a-Wish Foundation and does her bit to help ill children.