Hexwood - Diana Wynne Jones.

I am afraid I will not be able to post a proper nice review about this one, as I was screaming about being confused just a few hours ago. This was not the novels fault as much as my own.
I started reading Hexwood smack in the middle of my last semester as an IB diploma student. Yes, I can see your smirks. It was not the best idea I've had and we're going to let it go now. I loved the start of it, just as I loved the first novel I read by Jones, (Howl's Moving Castle). She has a special quirky and wonderful style I wish I had myself in my writing. I love how her children novels, like Hexwood, can still attract adults. This novel had so many twists and turns, I don't know if a child would even have gotten it.
Though, I guess children are often more open-minded than adults, and might have accepted it easier.

Anyways, the reason I was so confused, and why I opened this post with more IB rambles, was because I put the book down. Before today, I had not had more than ten minutes to ready anything of it for several months, so I never really got into it. Today I decided to finish it, and I was so confused as I had trouble concentrating. Without spoiling, the characters simply shifted and changed over a single place. They transformed, lied and told the truth. All at once.
I kept going "What? What? I am confused."But it's brilliant! I don't think I have ever read a book where I was so completely flabbergasted when it came to the next page. As I neared the end, or perhaps it was the beginning of the end, nothing (and I mean nothing) made sense. And it was absolutely wonderful. I was so tricked into thinking it would be simple a sweet little story about a girl, but it turned into so much more.
Before today I loved Jones' writing, but after this novel I simple adore it. I worship it. She took me from O to a million, in just one page, and then she turned it all around. If are ever looking for a novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat, please, please, do read this one.

Jones changes time. If you have ever read Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse five you know about how time-changing can be rather confusing. Hexwood was so brilliant made, that after an hour or me screaming I was confused, that I didn't understand anything, I closed the novel with a simple... "That made sense." I am so glad I finished it. I wish I hadn't taken a break though, it is a novel better read in one take. At least not with a big gap in the middle.

I know this isn't much of a review itself, I was too busy screaming obcenities and asking the world what was happening, to take notes, but I will leave you with this. Hexwood might be intended as a childrens' novel, but this novel has everything going for it. It has lovable and quirky (and strange and familiar) characters, wonderful scenery and a plot that you will wish you had thought if yourself. I loved it, especially now that I, finally, understand it.

I have two more Diana Wynne Jones novels on the way, them being the sequels to Howl's Moving Castle.  I am pretty sure I am going to love them, but before that, I have two more sequels to read. One is Behemoth, by Scott Westerfeld and The Dark Volume by G.W. Dahlquist. I am thinking I will take Behemoth first. I adored the first novel, and I have been looking forward for the continuation.