Hex Hall
I'd probably have enjoyed it a lot more if I were in junior high, due to the writing style and suspension of disbelief.
It starts with a stereotypical "Girl with magic gets sent to a magic school" setup with mean girls, hot guy, and even an outcast best friend all tossed in for flavor. My main concern was that it would be a stereotyped, wish-fulfillment story.
However, the way Hex Hall's setup plays out surprised me -- the story is new and inventive and interesting and for that I'd recommend this book. I'm even mildly compelled to read the books that come after this to see how the story ends. (Yes, you're left with a bit of a cliffhanger.)
Morganville Vampires: Book 1
Unlike most vampire books these days, the vampires are not the protagonists. The main character is a sixteen-year-old scientific prodigy attending a small Texas university in a town that, you guessed it, has vampires.
There are mean girls, as all teen books seem to require, but something I love about this book is that the meanest girls are the ones the vampires like and protect and hang out with. The shiny, popular kids are the ones the vampires choose because they're shiny and popular and attractive and easily manipulated.
I love that. The goth kids, the outcasts, finally aren't the ones that the vampires feel kinship with in a "We're all so persecuted" way. The town outcasts are outcasts precisely because they don't pander to the vampires.
It's new, it's fresh, and it makes a ton more sense than angsty "I feel your pain" kinship.
Darkest Powers Trilogy: The Summoning, The Awakening, The Reckoning
I read the blurb for the books and was like "Thank God, this one isn't about vampires." And a teenage necromancer sounded neato. Then I read it and was like "Must read the next two! Now!" So I finished them between bouts of productiveness at work, almost unable to tear myself away except for the threat of doing such a bad job it'd get noticed and reported to my supervisor.
Yee, they're amazing. O.O Read them.
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