Currently reading Grady Hendrix's latest, WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS, and am not particularly digging it. I’m about 2/5 to halfway through it, and find its pace plodding, its characters too archetypal for a character-driven narrative, and the basic conflict too buried in a book that ultimately didn't seem to know what it wanted to be...Hendrix mentioned in the introduction that he had a difficult time figuring out what the book should be (but finally did), and I'd argue that he never quite did. While there are a couple of his I'm not too fond of (esp. WE SOLD OUR SOULS), I've never become impatient or bored with a Hendrix book, so this is a new experience for me in that regard, and WITCHCRAFT may be my first Hendrix DNF.
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