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Hex
Hex | Thomas Olde Heuvelt
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Readergrrl
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Yay! After returning home to CT on NYE, my PO delivered my held mail today. How glad I am to see my #CreepyChristmas box!! Can‘t wait to taste the chocolate dipped rice crispy treat! Yum!! The books look great and I love the Beetle Juice bookmark and Krampus ornament! After some pretty dark horror this fall, I think I‘ll start with the Johnson&Cooper book, but I‘m sure I‘ll eat the others up as fast as I can too! Thank you @MaleficentBookDragon !

MaleficentBookDragon You are welcome! I‘m glad you like everything. (edited) 3mo
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khooliha
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Mehso-so

Another book club pick, this book is Fine but I don't think it really works. Way too much wind up for not enough pitch.

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Sometimes a book is trying to be horrific but then it says "Four hundred children flew into the air as if they had been shot from catapults." and there's nothing to do but laugh.

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DimeryRene
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This is a reread for me. I remember being blown away the first time; I thought this was so smart and incredible and challenging. I feel very similar this second time. The parent/child arguments, the mob mentality, the darkness of suicidal ideation, the us v them that always happens in small towns… there‘s so much going on here. Definitely dated in a few places, but still good.

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AmandaBlaze
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Thank you, @peanutnine, for the book and chocolate. Thanks, @MaleficentBookDragon, for hosting the #Jolabokaflodswap.

peanutnine You're very welcome 🤗 Happy holidays and happy reading 💖 1y
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Emilymdxn
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Pickpick

A very scary horror with a great central concept. I actually saw this on a tiktok recommendation and thought it looked way too scary then the concept worked its way into my head and I couldn‘t forget it so I had to actually read it lol. The ending was VERY intense (check tws) but I genuinely loved it. I really appreciate how this writer always does rewarding endings that feel thematically fitting without being predictable

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TheHungryBookworms
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Bailedbailed

Couldn't finish it. Couldn't get into it.

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BookMaven9
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Mehso-so

🎃🎃it started out strong and I was deeply engrossed, then it went tailspinning into a mess. TRIGGER WARNING: animal cruelty

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bthegood
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Pickpick

This book was perfect - great premise and execution. This is not a scary story - it is a tension filled story - a constant “omg, what is going to happen next? and omg, did they just do that?“
#bodycountbingo @PuddleJumper
#missing (The Suspect about missing teens) #ScarathlonDailyPrompts
#TeamMonsterMash #Scarathlon2022
Make a great day 🎃🧙

WJCintron 😃🙌 1y
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Lizpixie
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#ScarathlonDailyPrompts #Day19 #Curse This was one of the very first books I bought from BD on recommendation from Littens 6yrs ago! Wow. Time flies⏳A whole town is cursed in this spooky novel. In Black Spring there‘s a 17th century Witch that wanders the streets, enters your home & can stand next to your bed while you sleep. Oh, her eyes & mouth are sewn shut😱And you can never leave. Might reread this for #Scarathlon #TeamSlaughter 6pts

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AmandaBlaze
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bthegood I picked this as well for that prompt- currently reading - love it - 🧙 1y
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BeckyWithTheGoodBooks
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I absolutely love this spooky read about the cursed town of Black Spring and the witch that haunts it. I‘ve read it twice and I‘m sure I‘ll read it again when the English translation of the sequel (Oracle) comes out. Squee!! #scarathlondailyprompts #cursed #teamslaughter

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bthegood
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The witch put a #curse on the town - the story takes place in the present day, the town must follow a lot of rules (to keep the witch from getting mad) that keep the citizens isolated from the outside world - but then....some people mess with the witch.....
and things start to go wrong for the citizens of the town.

Listening to audiobook - really enjoying it -

#ScarathlonDailyPrompts #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash

Make a great day 🧙

WJCintron Can‘t wait to read this one!! 1y
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JoeMo
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Black Rock, a seemingly typical town in upstate NY, except for the presence of Katherine, a 17th century witch who cursed the town and haunts it to this day. The town does its best to keep their witch a secret to the outside world through an advanced security system and a collection of rules and regs all townies must follow. Over the course of a very slow build, things go terribly go terribly wrong!

#curse #scarathlon #scarathlondailyprompts

bthegood I'm using the same prompt - I love this story so far ( a little over half way) and I love the audiobook - 1y
JoeMo @bthegood I‘m glad you like it so far! Some readers hate the slow build, but I enjoyed learning about the town and some of its characters. I thought it was like if Garrison Keillor‘s Lake Wobegon had a resident witch! 😂 1y
b.elschie I could not finish this book. But as someone from Upstate NY (not westchester >>) it reminds me of Oniontown but on a higher scale. 1y
bthegood @JoeMo exactly!!! 1y
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bthegood
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#Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash - total points for week : 2,914, total points for both weeks: 8794 @StayCurious

#witchathon @mdm139
#31by31 @Catsandbooks
#pointsathon @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
#Spookoween2022 @TheSpineView

Make a great day everyone 🧛‍♂️

TheSpineView Fantastic 1y
AnnR 🎃👏🕷 1y
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 1y
Catsandbooks 🎉🎃 1y
WJCintron 🙌😃 1y
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bthegood
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All of these books had a #clue #ScarathlonDailyPrompts #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious

Enjoying the potential for some bingos this month -
#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
#bodycountbingo @PuddleJumper
#Autumnbingo2022 @Ann_Reads

Make a great day everyone - 🎃

PuddleJumper Brilliant! 1y
AnnR Great progress with all your bingo cards! 🍁🍁🍁 1y
TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Looking great!! 1y
bthegood @TheAromaofBooks @Ann_Reads @PuddleJumper thx - and thx for hosting👻 1y
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bthegood
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#Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash #WordSearch #ScarathlonDailyPrompts #grave
@StayCurious

I have to post these now or I'll forget to do them -

Make a great day everyone 🎃

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JoeMo
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Pickpick

I finished HEX early this a.m. Much of it reads like a parody…what would happen if a modern town were haunted by a witch? Well in the case of Black Rock, create a government and security system intended to suppress this info from slipping to the outside world and to allow locals to pretend that everything is fine. Be prepared for the witch to show up randomly at your family dinner or during those intimate moments with your spouse (mood killer 🤣).

JoeMo The book lulls the reader to sleep with life in Anytown, USA, if Anytown, USA were cursed by a witch. The book moves at a snail‘s pace until you reach the last third or fourth of the book when things increasingly descend into chaos…it‘s delightful, and tragic, and sobering in both what unfolds and the author‘s commentary on human nature. To boot, the audiobook has a perfect narration performance by Jeff Harding! This should be a mini-series! (edited) 1y
TheSpineView Fantastic 1y
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MoonWitch94 The ending is apparently different in the Dutch version! But the author won‘t say how. 1y
JoeMo @MoonWitch94 Yep, it‘s interesting. It was translated from Dutch to English by someone else. The author then updated the translation to switch it from a Dutch village to NY town and altered the ending. He stated this in the acknowledgments and told readers to “bribe a Dutch person” if they want to know the original ending…fortunately there‘s Reddit instead! 😂 He liked the new ending more, so he used it in the Dutch 2nd edition. 1y
MoonWitch94 Which ending did you like better? First Dutch Edition or English? 1y
JoeMo They‘re pretty similar, but the US version is more subtle, so it seems like the better ending between the two! 1y
Catsandbooks 🙌🏼✨👻 1y
bthegood This is on my list for October - just downloaded audiobook - thx for the review - 1y
JoeMo @bthegood I‘ll be interested to hear what you think of it…it‘s not perfect, but I swear, if you can make it through the first ten hours or so, the payoff is worth it! 1y
bthegood just started it yesterday, - it seems like such an interesting concept, I like the beginning - such a normal family and yet something is so off in their world- 🙂 1y
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IamIamIam
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A 300 year old witch with her eyes and mouth sewn shut walks the streets of Black Spring, NY. When local teens start to experiment with her tolerance levels, which is prohibited by the Emergency Decree, things start to go sideways. This slow burn was PHENOMINAL!! Even more interesting, it was rewritten to give it an American location, as it was originally written in Dutch and set in a small Dutch village.

DGRachel I heard the author also changed the ending for the English language version and didn‘t want the original Dutch translated. 😩 2y
IamIamIam @DGRachel I've not read the original but I'd definitely be interested to see how different it is! 2y
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IamIamIam
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Getting in some down time after a busy vacation week!!! This book is so intriguing but we've been on the go so much that I haven't really been able to buckle down and sink my teeth in just yet. ✈️🌴❤️

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Bookishgal71
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I like scary books! This one, which I listened to on Audible, might be better read on the page. There are some creepy moments to be sure. Interesting twist at the end! I love the witch, wrapped in chains with her eyes and mouth stitched shut. Just make sure she doesn‘t get loose…

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magyklyXdelish
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Pickpick

5 spooky stars. While this was creepy in some parts I wasn‘t really ever scared. Only maybe uneasy. This could be because I was rooting for the witch lol

Great take on mob mentality and humans not learning from the mistakes of their ancestors.

#BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 2y
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magyklyXdelish
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paper.reveries
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Pickpick

Thomas Olde Heuvelt is a new auto-buy for me. Just when you think things will get resolved, something else thickens the plot. And then another spin, and then another, and then… I continued this pattern for 250 pages, through two meals, and then suddenly.. it was over.

Hex is the kind of gruesome accident you can‘t help but compulsively watch. It‘s the human race at its ugliest. It‘s squirmy and horrifying and spooky and I simply loved it.

aa_guer2021 What a wonderfully written review! I felt exactly the same when I read this!! 🤐😳🙃 2y
paper.reveries @aa_guer2021 Thanks so much! What a gruesome ride, hey? Love it 😍😍 2y
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therubberduckninja
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Panpan

The beginning of this book is very, very, very slow. Things do go utterly mad later, but it‘s a slow burn to get there. I know a lot of people enjoyed it, but it wasn‘t my thing and I found the characters completely unlikeable.

therubberduckninja Also - I was puzzled that a book originally published in Dutch was set in New York - and I discovered it originally wasn‘t. The author felt American readers wouldn‘t “get” the book and rewrote an Americanised version for the English translation… which personally, I find rather disappointing. 2y
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8ember8
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Mehso-so

Witch‘s curse on a town. Epitome of “men writing women”, but readable.

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IamIamIam
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Snagged these 2 suckers for $2.99 each! They've been on my radar for the longest time and I couldn't pass it up! Thanks, MacMillan e-book deals!!

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AlisBookNookCorner
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⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ https://suspensebookreviews.home.blog/2021/10/05/hex-by-thomas-olde-heuvelt/

A great twist to the classic haunting trope. A small town is cursed by an ancient witch whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. The witch can show up anywhere from the end of your bed to under the street light. Creepy, dark, and a fresh take on hauntings, HEX is a must-read for all horror lovers. A great addition to your Halloween Read Pile!

BeckyWithTheGoodBooks This is one of my favorite books. I‘ve read it twice and still think about it!!!! (edited) 2y
AlisBookNookCorner @BeckyWithTheGoodBooks It came highly recommended from a horror book group I'm in on Facebook. It was trending for a few weeks, so naturally, I had to check it out. So glad I did! What a take on a haunting. 2y
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WJCintron
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#littensdressedinblood #thomasolde #hex #monster #horror #
#September 11 Prompt: #Monstermash
This one took me a long time to figure out. I hope in the end it fits somehow. The book is about an evil #witch.

MidnightBookGirl I love this book! 3y
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Lizpixie
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#LittensDressedInBlood #Day7 For #campfiretales I‘ve brought one out of the vault, this is a book I reviewed in my first six months on Litsy, 5yrs ago. It‘s a creepy witchy Halloween story about a town that‘s cursed. Black Spring is a Hudson Valley town that‘s haunted by a 17th century witch who roams the town with her eyes & mouth sewn shut & has the ability to appear anywhere she wills, including your home. It definitely freaked me out!

MidnightBookGirl This is a freaky book! The bookstore I work at was lucky enough to get the author on his first ever American tour and he was delightful! He's got a new one finally coming out here in the US. 3y
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Tineke
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This was my #doublespin for June. I've read this book in Dutch, the original language. It turned out to be a late night, I have had little sleep. It was a little creepy, especially with all the night sounds. I enjoyed the story and the ending. Some of the sentences and language used felt a bit weird. I think I might visit Beek sometime when I'm walking the Pieterpad trail in my country.
TBR since July 1st. 2020; 565 pages.
@TheAromaofBooks

BarbaraBB I did walk the Pieterpad too! I loved it! 3y
Tineke @BarbaraBB you did?! We're at stage seven Sleen-Coevorden. We tend to walk three stages in summer with a backpack and a tent on our back. Quite a heavy undertaking as we normally don't walk a lot. But we're always amazed at how fast our bodies recover and always feel proud we survived again. We should walk more often, otherwise it's going to take us 9 years to finish. 3y
TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 3y
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BarbaraBB Ik liep met vriendinnen en we hebben er 3 jaar over gedaan, elke twee maanden gingen we een weekend en liepen dan 2 etappes. Zonder tent 😉. Ik vond het echt geweldig. Nu lopen we het Trekvogelpad: van Bergen aan Zee naar Enschede! 3y
Tineke @BarbaraBB ha, gaan we over op het Nederlands? Ik vind het ook een fijne route. We (ik en een vriendin) hebben tot nu toe altijd goed weer gehad. Jullie sliepen dan in een hotel of b&b? Die tent is erg zwaar. We zoeken nog naar een lichtgewicht, maar dat is prijzig. Het trekvogelpad lijkt me ook wel wat, net zoals het kustpad. Maar we willen misschien ook eens kijken in Duitsland voor een mooi pad. 3y
BarbaraBB Ja haha niemand buiten NL is denk ik geïnteresseerd in het Pieterpad ?. Ja wij sliepen in hotels of b&b ‘s. Was een heerlijke beloning na zo‘n dag lopen! Een pad in Duitsland lijkt me te gek. Trekvogelpad is ook mooi maar je loopt lang tussen de snelwegen in, het is niet zo stil als op het Pieterpad 3y
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Addison_Reads
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It took me longer than expected to really start enjoying this one, but I'm glad I didn't bail.

This story of a town with a witch who wanders around and everyone tries to hide her from the outside world was such a cool concept. Although it was slow to build, and not quite as spooky as I expected, once the witch starts behaving erratically things really take off and I couldn't stop reading.

vivastory Tor Nightfire is publishing a new book by him later this year. I can't wait! 3y
readordierachel I tried this a couple years ago and bailed early. Maybe I'll give it another go! 3y
bthegood This is on my TBR list - thx for review looking forward to it even more and now I know to be patient! 3y
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AsYouWish
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Oh my stars!!!! This books I a crazy ride. It starts off slow and the build is slow, but once you hit the action - hold on tight!!! There were so many twists and turns I was not expecting and the ending left my jaw on the floor...
Highly recommend!!!!

🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫

AsYouWish @EH2018 I cannot thank you enough for bringing this book into my life!!! I loved it!!!! 3y
EH2018 So glad you liked it!! 3y
MidnightBookGirl I really loved this book, and we had Thomas come to the bookstore on his first tour of America and he was lovely! 3y
AsYouWish @MidnightBookGirl That sounds amazing!!!! I am looking into some of his other books now because I love his style and attention to detail. 3y
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abookishbutterfly
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Mehso-so

It is a creepy concept, although this tale was different than I‘d anticipated. I do like books that look at the horror of human nature but I don‘t think the execution worked completely for me. I‘m still confused about some things and with the slow pacing, my brain didn‘t always completely connect to the details. I also felt that the witch‘s history came in the form of a huge info dump.

paper.reveries I got this on mega sale on my Kobo a couple weeks ago... I‘m really curious now to read it and see if I feel the same way! 3y
TheLudicReader I started this one a while ago, but set it aside early on. Not sure I will get back to it. 3y
abookishbutterfly @daisyheadmaesie You‘ll have to let me know what you end up thinking of it. 3y
abookishbutterfly @TheLudicReader I can understand that. 3y
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Ladygodiva7
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Time for a Spooky book! 🧙🏻‍♀️

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MoonWitch94
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#HorrorSeason
October 4th: The Blair Witch Project

Hex is the English language adaptation of a Dutch horror novel by the same name & author. A witch terrorizes a town in Hudson Valley NY for hundreds of years until it finally reaches a point where the town goes on lockdown in an attempt to keep people safe. But the witch still haunts to woods, the streets and their homes. And she won‘t stop until she gets what she wants.

Klou I'm hoping to get this book for Christmas. It sounds incredible!!! 3y
MoonWitch94 @Klou I‘m hoping to get to it for #Scarathlon this month. I‘ve had it over a year. Apparently the author changed the ending for the English version & won‘t share what the Dutch version ending is! 3y
Klou @MoonWitch94 awesome! I hope you get to it and like it! Wow! I didn't know that! 3y
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SaraHasClass
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Terrifying, supernatural, psychological, HEAVY--a story that will challenge your notion of what is scarier, a 300 year old witch whose eyes & mouth are stitched shut & who walks a cursed town for all to see OR human nature, carefully controlled, structured and orderly until its not. ☠

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DavidDiamond
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Well that was dark.
But it was also thrilling, scary and extremely difficult to put down.
A story that examines familial love, superstition and who we are as a species and how we treat each other when all hell breaks loose...kinda like now.

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JessTedrick
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It took me a bit to get into this book but I forgive it because the ending was pretty perfect. Creepy with a mix of Blair Witch and The Lottery vibes.

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JessTedrick
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Popcorn and horror ❤️
Also, super impressed to know that this author is Dutch and instead of just letting a translator translate his book as- is, he rewrote some of it to have it set in America.
I also hear the endings are different.
So really, the most logical conclusion is that I have to learn Dutch now 🤷‍♀️

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Tineke
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1. The hypnotist by Lars Kepler. Read in English.
2. For me, English is a foreign language, but for you I read books in Dutch and rarely Frisian. Both are my mother tongue. But for the most part I read in English. Haven't yet read a Dutch book this year.
The tagged book is a Dutch, translated to English, author.
For everyone else, I'm curious for your answers.
#Two4Tuesday

ImperfectCJ I've read that Hex wasn't just translated into English but completely adapted for an American audience. Wondering how different the two versions are. Have you read both? 4y
TheSpineView 👍💜📚 4y
Tineke @Imperfect, his book is still on my wishlist. But I read about the changes in translation in an interview and I am looking for that interview. I'll come back with the answer. 4y
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ashsbookmarks
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Book review of Hex is live on my blog! I love spooky scary shot and I loved this book!! Check out my full review at ashsscript.com 🤓
#bookreview #hex #bookblogger #bookstagram #bookstagrammer

VeryLazyDaisy I LOVED this book so freaking much. Definitely will have a place in my top picks of the year. 4y
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ldemass
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Pickpick

I'm always a sucker for a good scary book and this one did not disappoint. From the creepiness in the first chapter all the way to the ending, where if I were watching the movie version I'm pretty sure I would have closed my eyes. Lol. The only complaint was the ending seemed somewhat rushed but even that didn't take away from the story.

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VeryLazyDaisy
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Any friends out there who‘ve read the Dutch version? After reading the acknowledgements I need to know how that one ended?! This book absolutely rocked me. I felt the townspeople‘s madness seeping from the pages, infecting my mind with fear. It was amazing.

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TamTracy
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Pickpick

I think this is one of the scariest books I‘ve read. I do t usually get scared of books but the imagery that this audiobook put in my head was the creepiest. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Kaylamburson
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This was super creepy and the last book for #LMPBC! I enjoyed the storyline and the writing, although so many of the characters made me want to scream. It was certainly creepy, but less so than I expected. Even with a witch on the scene, it felt realistic. At least until the end. I really did not like the last 30 pages or so (felt so rushed), and I'm curious how the Dutch version ended. Any Dutch Littens that have read the original??

Kaylamburson So sorry it took me so long, @Hestapleton , @Stacypatrice , @jb72!! I'm mailing it Monday. 😊 4y
jb72 It‘s taken me a few extra days to finish Brother. I felt the same about Hex...the witch was creepy, but I felt a bit rushed at the end. 4y
Kaylamburson Yes, I didn't realize how long it was and started too late. But so rushed. I was so confused lol. I think it of all four Brother was my favorite. @jb72 4y
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jb72 @Kaylamburson so far Brother is pretty good. I‘m halfway through it. 4y
Bookzombie I think after I read this I was able to Google the different ending. I can‘t remember it, of course. 😕 4y
Kaylamburson Ohhh I'll see if I can Google it! Great idea, @Bookzombie 4y
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