Audiobook Review: Jinx High by Mercedes Lackey

Jinx High
Author: Mercedes Lackey
Narrator: Traci Odom 
Series: Diana Tregarde Investigation (Book 3)
Publication: Tantor Audio (October 8, 2019)
Length: 11 hours and 21 minutes

Description: Fay Harper looks like any other teenage girl - any other Queen Bee, that is. She's blond, and beautiful, and very, very popular - the kind of popular that attracts boys like honey. Fay and her gang take a lot of risks, but so far, they've managed to get away with everything. It's as if they are magically protected.

Summoned to Tulsa by an old friend whose son has fallen in with Fay's crowd, Diana Tregarde, practicing witch and successful romance novelist, quickly finds herself in hot water. The new girl at school, Monica Carlin, has come under sorcerous attack, but Diana cannot identify, or stop, the power-wielder. To make matters worse, there is an ancient being sleeping under Tulsa, a being who might be woken by the magic battles taking place in the city. What will happen then, even Diana cannot predict.

My Thoughts: Diane Tregarde is called by old friend Larry Kestrel now living in Oklahoma when he believes that his son Derek has brushed against something evil. Diana's excuse for coming is to offer a seminar to advanced English students at Jenks High about being a working author. Derek is in that class as is another young woman named Monica Carlin who aspires to be an author. 

Derek has recently begun dating Fay Harper who is the Queen Bee of the high school and who seems to have cast a spell on Derek. Actually, she has. Fay is a sorcerer who has jumped from body to body of her descendants for more than two hundred years. Fay has picked Derek to be her next husband despite the fact that she is currently a high school senior and Deke a high school junior. 

Deke has psychic gifts as do his parents. His parents have had shields on him since he was a small child and haven't told him about his magic abilities nor their own. Both have been content to put their magic past and previous work with Diana behind them. 

Diana has trouble finding out who the sorcerer is and can't believe that a young woman would have the ability that the sorcerer is displaying. She doesn't know about the body switching. But she needs to and stop the sorcerer soon before he/she manages to wake up a god sleeping below Tulsa,

This was an entertaining urban fantasy/mystery. I like Diana who is a Guardian of the Earth and who has to provide help when asked. I liked the multiple viewpoints in this story as we hear from not only Diana but also from Deke, Monica and Fay as well. 

I got this one from Audible Plus. You can buy your copy here.