Rating: 1/5 
 ***Minor spoilers*** 
 I wanted to pick up this book because I loved Hex Hall and School Spirits. I hoped that I would be able to love this one too. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. I think I knew from the first chapter that I wasn't going to enjoy this one, and I was definitely right about that. I spent the majority of this book bored and annoyed. 
 This book is told by Harper Price, rich, vain southern belle who spent $1000 on a Homecoming outfit. At Homecoming, she goes to the bathroom to put on her borrowed lip gloss called Salmon Fantasy . Yup, you read right, the freaking lip gloss was called SALMON FANTASY of all things. While there, her janitor comes in injured and right before he dies, he kisses her. Except he didn't really kiss her, he blew something into her. Your reaction is probably the same one I had. And - surprise! She's suddenly the paladin. And she kills her history teacher with her shoe. Except, let's not dwell on the fact that she's a paladin and she has someone to protect. Let's instead spend the rest of the book talking about Harper's love triangle and how terrible of a girlfriend she is. 
 I tried to enjoy this, I really did. It had the same sort of humour as Hex Hall/School Spirits, but this book just didn't do it for me. I hated Harper. She was one of those girls who I can only explain as "one of those girls who knows they're hot and perfect and uses it to strike fear into everyone's hearts" as demonstrated when she intimidated a group of sophomores for no reason. Also, does this girl NEVER check her phone? I swear every other chapter she gets told that she's been called/texted 100 times and never responded. And half of the time it's her boyfriend telling her. She claims to love him but can't even return a call, and she does the same to her best friend. It's ridiculous. 
 I hate love triangles. Sometimes, an author can make them work, but in this book the love triangle was so totally unnecessary. Why is it so difficult to find a good book where a girl can be friends with a guy and it's strictly platonic? Then there were so many unnecessary conflicts caused by this love triangle and I grew so tired of it. I was excited to read this because I've never read a book about paladins, but the book doesn't even focus on this. It focusses on her romantic problems and her freaking Cotillion. Man, did I get tired of reading about her Cotillion. 
 I could probably rant forever about this book but thankfully I won't. I had hoped to love this as much as Hex Hall and School Spirits but Hawkins just didn't do it for me this time. This book had a cool general idea but it just wasn't my thing. So many people enjoyed this book so this book just probably wasn't for me. If you were already planning to check this out, go ahead, but if you hate love triangles like me I definitely wouldn't recommend it since that's basically the entire book. I don't think I'll be reading Miss Mayhem.