MixedI read Hex. There's like a witchy lady in a little town.
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Hex (2001)
Creators: Mixed "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.
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LovedNow, while I admit this book is not a five-star perfect read for me, I still to this day think that it's an incredibly smart and interesting horror book that really subverts some of the tropes. It leans into different things. is very self-aware and love it or hate it, I think it does a really good job what it is trying to do.
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DislikedI thought the story was a bit dull I thought it was annoying how the whole tracking the witch on the app was never actually explained it really didn't deliver on what I expect from like a witchy paranormal tale
Lovedit's extremely inventive and this one was just one of those compelling page turners and it actually cracked the top 10 books of the year when i read this a few years ago
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