Ratings53
Average rating3.5
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Ratings53
Average rating3.5
"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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2 primary booksRobert Grim is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by Thomas Olde Heuvelt and Nancy Forest-Flier.
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DNF. The story started out delightfully weird but the first few chapters were 95% quoted dialog and I wasn't feeling it.
Wauw!! Wat een boek! Ondanks dat het in het begin moeilijk was om in het verhaal te komen geef ik het 4 sterren. Toen ik eenmaal in het verhaal zat wilde ik niet meer stoppen met lezen. Het was spannend, het was vies, het was modern en het was UNIEK.
De schrijfstijl van Thomas is fijn. Het boek las makkelijk weg.
Het boek gaat over het dorpje Beek dat in de greep wordt gehouden van de Wylerheks.
De Wylerheks is een vrouw uit de zeventiende eeuw en ze heeft dichtgenaaide mond en ogen.
Iedereen in Beek weet dat je nooit de ogen van de heks mag openen.
Dit boek heeft veel spannende momenten waardoor je niet meer wilt stoppen met lezen.
Het heeft de nodige plot twists en duidelijke inleiding en een eind van heb ik jou daar!
Ik raad dit boek aan iedereen aan.
I came into this book expecting a creepy, horrific ride. And, by the end, this book delivered. There's very little as horrific as the nature of man.
I was disappointed by how slow the book moved through the first half, and also the sexualization of most/all female characters in the book, though I have to wonder if some of that was from translation limitations? There were still very blatant examples but it fit the nature of the teen boys we saw most of the book through.
That aside, the ending was satisfying, creepy, and honestly one of the better horror endings I can recall in recent reads.
Moping around town
no one listens, no one cares
what's a ghost to do?
