Brooklyn Sparks is invisible, she is also a witch. Her overprotective parents bound her powers when she was a baby. They promised that on her sixteenth birthday, they would release them, but cautions her to be very careful using them.

Brooklyn has always felt invisible in life. She had never had any friends and is so average looking that everyone seems to look past her. She is desperate for popularity, for friends, for a life a meaning. Now that she had her powers, she can make that happen. Her one goal. . . to become part of the exclusive Elite. The Elite are five popular and beautiful and rule the school. Everyone wants to be friends with them and wants to be them.

Once Brooklyn's powers are unbound, she gives herself a makeover. She goes from invisible to the entire student body to known to everyone. Asher, whom she has had a crush on forever is talking to her, not to mention a fellow witch. And the Elite is asking her to do some pretty questionable things, but if Brooklyn wants to be popular she has to pay the price.

We follow Brooklyn through a rash of bad decisions where she is easily swayed by her so called Elite friends to do their bidding. She lies to the people she really cares about just to serve her new so called friends. Her relationship with Asher becomes strained by all the lies. When Brooklyn finally does see the Elite for what they are, when they steal student files to use against them, and to pursue their own gain, does she finally stand up for herself and others. She finally sees what is important and what she should be doing with her new popularity.

In Brittany Geragotelis's WHAT THE SPELL, Brooklyn sounds like your typical teenager. She can be whiny and needy and selfish, but she can also stand up for what she believes in and what is right. This is a great read!