Hex

Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

A creepy read.  Take a witch, a cursed town, rowdy teens, and ancient laws.  A complete mess!

Hex starts off almost comical.  The town's witch, Katherine van Wyler, walks around town and goes into homes.  People of the town adjust to her presence by ignoring her or throwing a towel or sheet over her face.  See, Katherine has sewn shut eyes along with a sewn shut mouth.  She's the picture of death all wrapped up in chains.

Reasonably, the teens of this town start to look towards their future, just to find that it is undeniably bleak.  The curse of living in Black Spring is that those who have been born in Black Spring can never leave, and those who move to and settle in Black Spring suffer the same fate.  Tyler, a teen boy living in Black Spring decides that a possible resolution to this problem would be to bring the witch and her curse all out into the open.  But the town keeps Katherine van Wyler and it's curse as a closely guarded secret, and their are dire consequences if this secret is leaked.

What would you do if your humanity was questioned?  Hex makes you question the 'good' in people, and how far a person will go for love, hate, survival, so on.

While reading the reviews, I thought this book would be more frightening.  Though it had it's moments (I was a bit jumpy here and there I'll admit) it was more terrifying how the author presented the people of Black Spring.  I would be sitting saying "no way; just no fricken way humans could do this to each other".

Overall an interesting read, but very very dark.  You wont be left feeling relieved or "complete" by the end.  But you will have the feels, the not good feels..

Goodreads link: Hex