Miranda Silver has pika, an eating disorder that compels her to eat foreign objects (chalk, in Miranda’s case). Miranda -or Miri as she’s called throughout the book- lives with her twin brother, Eliot and her widowed father, Luc. They live together in a “haunted” ancestral home that they have converted into a bed and breakfast. The house, one of the narrators of the...
Kallie & Matt's Side By Side Review of HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Kallie's Review:
The town of Black Springs is exactly the kind of town you would want to move to in order to get away from city life. It’s surrounded by beautiful forests and has that wholesome small-town feel. Everyone knows everyone, even the town witch. Yep, the small town has a town witch, a curse and a secret. The elders have decided to basically quarantine the town from the outside world and, using high tech methods, keep their secret.
The youths of Black Springs want out. They want to do away with hundreds of...