[Book Review] - HEX - Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Hi people! Today we are going to talk a little about the book HEX, by Thomas Olde Heuvelt. published here in 2018 by Darkside Books.

In HEX we have a city called Black Spring that is cursed by a witch. This witch was burned at the stake but somehow she survived and she has been a part of people's lives in the city for the past 300 years. Over the years, many bad things ended up happening because of this witch, until people ended up sewing her eyes and mouth, in an attempt to soften the curse because everyone who suffered from her eyes or heard her whispers had aggressive reactions or suicidal feelings. 

The witch is wandering around the city or appearing in random places (such as inside the residents' house). Over time, the townspeople got used to it but are afraid of what might happen if outsiders discover the witch's existence, so they created an app called HEX to monitor the witch movements.

 

There is a council of residents of Black Spring that is responsible for monitoring the witch and that always tries to keep outsiders or people who want to move there away so that they are not affected by the curse that prevents residents from moving or leaving the city.

The curse makes the more a resident leaves the city (for distance or time) the more he hears a whisper from the witch, making all residents prisoners.

The purpose of the book is very different from what I had seen before. There is the cliché of the horror genre represented by a group of teenagers who decide to test the witch, provoking her and putting the city at risk.

There is not a single protagonist, but several residents telling the story from different perspectives, connected by the group of teenagers and what they do with the witch.

However, as cruel as the witch's curse is, I felt sympathetic to her story and what she suffers from teenagers. My desire was to pluck the stitches from the witch's eyes and mouth and watch it all burn.

Regarding writing, I had never read anything written by a Dutch author, and for that reason, I felt a difference in the style that caused me a certain strangeness, but his narrative style pleased me a lot because the intensity grew as the story progressed.

Have you read HEX? Tell me your opinion here in the comments! See you in the next review! Also, take a look at the brazillian HEX edition on the video below!