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A review by amelioramus
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
I loved the concept and hated the execution. The witch turning up randomly wherever she wants, and honestly, anything the witch herself did, was great. But all of the focus characters were deeply unlikeable, beyond what I could tolerate for the plot, and the random misogyny and obsession with nipples made me aggressively uncomfortable.
We get it. You hate women with foreheads. At one point women with high foreheads are called "expendable" and I know it's a character talking, not the author, but when there's only one female character whose perspective we see more than a very brief glimpse of and she's written as such a condescending caricature of small-town DV survivors, it starts to feel like maybe it's a bit of the author perspective coming through.
This could have been a brilliant book, and it had its moments, but 80% of it moved at a glacial pace and the overbearingly misogynistic perspective made it difficult to enjoy.
We get it. You hate women with foreheads. At one point women with high foreheads are called "expendable" and I know it's a character talking, not the author, but when there's only one female character whose perspective we see more than a very brief glimpse of and she's written as such a condescending caricature of small-town DV survivors, it starts to feel like maybe it's a bit of the author perspective coming through.
This could have been a brilliant book, and it had its moments, but 80% of it moved at a glacial pace and the overbearingly misogynistic perspective made it difficult to enjoy.