DNF Review: Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins

This book was making its way around Youtube a year or two ago and it seemed like so much fun. It was branded as Buffy the Vampire Slayer set in the American South with all that that entails of cotillion and manners and lemonade. It does have slight Buffy vibes as the main character, Harper, is a high school girl who must step up to the task of protecting, not the world, but one particular person. But that’s about it, as far as the Buffy comparison goes. Harper is a regular, albeit slightly high-strung, girl who on prom night ends up in a magical fight between the janitor and her history teacher. As it turns out the janitor transfers some powers to her, and her history teacher then tries to kill her. Harper decides that she must be going crazy, but while she is figuring out how exactly, she finds out that indeed she is not crazy, but some seriously weird stuff is going on. I gave this book just over 150 pages before I decided to DNF it. T...