Hooky by Miriam Bonastre Tur

Hooky is a 3-book fantasy series written and illustrated by Miriam Bonastre Tur. It follows the story of 2 young witch siblings, Dani and Dorian, in a world with magic and witches. Beware, there is budding romance in it. This is also only a review of the first book.
The series starts off with Dani and Dorian missing the bus to magic school and deciding that they will stay with a tutor for the next 9 months. But very early on, the story kind of strays from that topic because the twins then proceed to accidentally steal a dragon egg and make enemies of powerful witches in the first few chapters. What’s even weirder is that they don’t seem to be that bothered by it in the next few chapters. They also get into interesting, but dangerous situations like for example almost getting burned at the stake and making friends with princess Monica of one of the non-magic kingdoms opposed to magic. But besides that fact, things are doing okay for them for the most part as they had made a few more friends like Nico, a town troublemaker and former apprentice of the Soothsayer (a.k.a Master Pendragon who they have been staying with) and Mark, a waiter at a local cafe who has a history with Nico.
Throughout the story they have a lot of hijinks which strain the group relationship at times. Oh! And there is a prophecy that one of the siblings will become the ruler of the witches. Overall, it’s a good story with very interesting characters and their dynamics with other characters. It has a few moments which really pulled at my heartstrings and made me almost want to cry because of how sad they are.

Reviewed by Teen Volunteer, 6/26/2025.