Reviews

Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

danielborg's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

elaeagnifolium's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Animal death, Domestic abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Islamophobia and Sexual assault

Visceral experience of grief after the loss of a child

sh78196's review against another edition

5.0

I am not normally scared when reading.  But Katherin Van Wyler is creepy. And I didn't want to read this at night before bed. 
It's a great Witch story! And a true look at humanity. 

weaver's review against another edition

fast-paced

3.25

rebelkat's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

whirl's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Cursing, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Murder, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Torture

Minor: Gun violence

salouaa_'s review against another edition

5.0

Spannend, en pakkend van begin tot einde.

psoglav's review against another edition

2.0

My rating: ★★

lilibetbombshell's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I’m looking at the average rating on this book and I’m perplexed, because this is one of the best horror novels I’ve read in quite some time. It has everything I love about horror novels in this genre with the added joy of possessing several layers of social and cultural commentary that have me itching to deconstruct the whole story down to its bones. 

I’m not kidding: In between devouring the pages with greedy eyes, I was humming in delight at the implacable dread that saturated every page and the way this story moves like a runaway train and you know the wreck at the end is going to be calamitous. I was eager to know who was finally going to be the one to f*ck around and find out (because of course someone was going to). I was wiggling my toes as I laughed darkly at the townspeople and their naive, foolish, and futile endeavors. The story was deep, black, bleak, and absolutely right up my alley. 

I love Scandinavian horror. For some reason I was utterly fascinated (at first) as to why Olde Heuvelt chose to write a story set in upstate New York in his native Dutch, but then I discovered the original story Heuvelt wrote (before he sold the rights to the US translation) had the story set in a small village in the Netherlands. Talk about a change in location! Heuvelt and the translator worked sublimely together, though, to bring the original story over to the US and weave this story into something wholly engrossing, entertaining, and wicked. 

bookish_withsky's review against another edition

3.0

It was good, I think I should've read it physically. I listened to it while moving/painting and found it harder to get into. May give it another go sometime because it definitely has an interesting plot and the ending!