Hex is hands down the creepiest book I have ever read. Yes thanks SO much to the author for those nightmares. Loved it. When a book genuinely disturbs you, you know you are onto a good thing. La magia existe en la mente de quienes creen en ella, no en su influencia real sobre la realidad."💙

Me gusta cuando se abordan hechos reales y se les da un toque fantástico, pero creo que quizás quedó un tanto corto. Aunque de igual manera, la pluma de la autora describe de forma tan potente todo, que no deja indiferente, aunque si me faltó más ambientación y atmósfera.Quien vive allí tiene que aprender a convivir con ella, no hay otra. Algo que llevan arrastrando desde hace nada menos que 350 años. Somewhere around the middle--the story also began to drag a bit. But I was invested in the characters (especially Tyler) so I kept going. Es un libro que todo amante del género debe leer. Absténganse los sensibles porque no escatima en detalles. Los cuales describe sin censura. As in so many fairy tales, the cruelest part is often overlooked. It’s not the depravity of the witch, but the mourning of the poor woodcutter over the loss of his children. But then reality starts to set in while you are reading this book. These characters are bat-shit crazy. They are mean as snakes. You have one father that is a main character who pretty much admits he has a favorite son...and it's not the gay one. You have women constantly put down..one was made fun of the whole entire book because she was fat. Another had an abnormally high forehead that the author couldn't shut up about.

For the translation, HEX has been transposed from the Netherlands, where the original Dutch version takes place, to the United States. This is something I was originally wary of; I feel it sets a dangerous precedent, and that we should be able to relate to stories from other cultures and settings without needing them realigned with our own. However, given the current political climate in the United States, and the subtext of small town fear of outsiders that runs through HEX, I felt that the change actually worked really well and gave the story timely resonance.it was fun and fast and creepy - i’ve never understood why witches were supposed to be scary; they’re just…magical ladies. but i would not want to live in this town, with this witch. or these people, for that matter. i'm glad i finally got around to reading this one. When she is summoned to the palace to help the princess sleep, her dream turns into a nightmare and her blessing becomes a curse. The English language debut of the bestselling Dutch novel, Hex, from Thomas Olde Heuvelt--a Hugo and World Fantasy award nominated talent to watch People find hope, comfort, or confidence in making the sign of the cross or not walking under a ladder, just as you find hope and confidence in offering a pennant to the witch. Magic exists in the minds of those who believe in it, not in its actual influence on reality.”

The novel’s villagers try to do this deliberately: they call the witch ‘Granma’ and the teens start playing pranks on her, because everybody tries and forget about how scary and dangerous she can be (even though that's something that still needs to be proven to the reader). The witch’s curse and presence forbids any of the villagers to lead a more or less normal life: once a citizen they cannot leave their village and have to try and keep their curse a secret to the outside world. This makes life and interaction with the world beyond the village’s limits a tad bit difficult. It's that time of year again. When the leaves start turning and the air gets cooler...wut? I live in the south. That crap ain't happening. But I still wanted some scary reading.Amanda wrote: "I've read , , and . All of these are on the same "Best Book Covers" and they are all pretty good. If y..."

it’s not a perfect book - again, the characters are just there to move the plot along, there’s a sexual assault in the jail that seems unlikely and gratuitous, and it doesn’t quite commit to exploring all the doors of its own reveal, but it’s winky-clever and surprising and it just explodes into smalltown mass-panic chaos at the end like stephen king writing salem directed by michael bay. I wasn't expecting this book to be so heartwrenching; there were several passages that were hard to read and others that made my blood boil. Brutalidad, fanatismo, supersticiones, ambientación sobrenatural con una atmósfera oscura y decadente. Eso y más en Hex. Horror lends itself well to feminist literature, but it absolutely must be done well, it’s a fine balance in how pronounced the message needs to be. For me at least, I want subtlety and a modicum of humour. The ‘horror’ element will see to the rest. But this little town has rules. You can't mention or film the witch. You can't touch her. You can't ever move out of town because the over-whelming feeling of wanting to commit suicide comes over you.

The RGB Model is used by web developers and graphic artists who use computers to manipulate images. This model uses three primary colors – red, blue, and green, and it also includes a fourth color – white. Grotesquely fat and just generally grotesque crazy lady who's also sexually assaulted at one point for no reason, and hey have we mentioned she's disgusting and she makes everyone eat pâté that's super gross Essie Winterscale lives in a huge and ever-changing house in the village of Good Winter, in deepest, darkest Essex. She lives with various witches of various ages, one of whom is still a bit salty about being hanged in the 1700s, one who keeps accidentally casting fertility spells, and one who knits things that create the future. Hex starts off really well, the creep factor was so high that reading it at half five in the afternoon felt far too close to bedtime for comfort. For me, it's not so much that it features a witch, but that the witch acts more like a ghost. Who can turn up in your house, at any time. Awful. Just awful.