384, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 22 Settembre 2016
"Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth-century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters homes at will. She stands next to children's beds for nights on end. Everybody knows that her eyes may never be opened or the consequences will be too terrible to bear. The elders of Black Spring have virtually quarantined the town by using high-tech surveillance to prevent their curse from spreading. Frustrated by being kept in lockdown, the town's teenagers, decide to break their strict regulations and go viral with the haunting. But, in so doing, they send the town spiraling into dark, medieval practices of the distant past."--Jacket.
Ni... una prima parte da bocciare, si riprende però nella seconda parte. Di horror non c'è quasi nulla, nessun effetto paura. Un libro che si può leggere come anche lasciar perdere. Di buono ha il messaggio: il male genera male sempre superiore, e spesso lo genera la gente che crede di essere nel giusto. Gli esseri umani, se spinti da una ferma idea, sanno essere più malvagi del demonio stesso.
Wow, what a riveting book! I finished this in three days, because the suspense was relentless.
Hex is about a town living under a curse, where evil lies waiting behind the secrets kept regarding an ancient witch, bound in chains, who wanders the streets and waits.
I was pleasantly surprised at the turns the plot took. Thomas Olde Heuvelt is fast becoming a favorite author of chills.
I really enjoyed this one. The setting and antagonist and pretty much everything were like catnip to me.
//read in 2022
