Very interesting. ****CONTAINS SPOILERS**** Steve is a husband and a father who lives with his family in a seemingly normal town called Black Spring. But this town is different from any other town. This town is haunted buy a 300-year old witch. Her eyes and her mouth are sewn shut and the people that live in the town are not only haunted by her presence but trapped there by it as well. When a group of kids play a prank on the witch things start to escalate quickly and the townsfolk start showing their true colors. This book is a fascinating look into mob mentality and mass hysteria. Although it may be classified as a paranormal horror novel, the only element that is paranormal about it is the witch herself. The rest of the horror comes from the townspeople themselves. it is said over and over again in the book that the townspeople got what they deserved and rightfully so. The witches retribution turned out to be no more than people's hatred and utter contempt to see the ugly side of life. I have to admit that I hated the ending. I read the English version and to my knowledge the Dutch version has a different ending than the English version. However as I said I did not care for the English version ending. It is amazing to think what someone will do when they are faced with a horrors that took place in this town, but even on the brink of madness to let your own son and wife died in a horrible fire and be the sole survivor is a terrible thought in and of itself. I guess mass hysteria can be very ugly but someone's own fit of madness can be even uglier when we hone in on it. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy this book. I will definitely keep it from my library and probably reread it sometime in the future. I just simply did not care for the ending because I can't imagine abandoning my family like that. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes a good horror novel. Good and creepy. Like this gets under your skin in a way that you just can't get out of your mind. And it may even make you look at society a little different from now on. 🤯
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