Hex Life
Editors: Christopher Golden and Rachel Autumn Deering
Publisher: Titan Books
ISBN: 9781789090345
Pages:378
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes
This Halloween, while the kids are out trick or treating, you know its cold outside and you can cosy up with a new book that's just right for this time of year. Hex Life.
Edited by Christopher Golden and Rachel Autumn Deering, Hex Life is a wickedly new compilation of tales about witches, wickedness and women all featuring the sort of women you wouldn't want to meet in an alley.
This hardback book is something to behold, in black with gold embossed writing and symbols on the front and back covers with a moleskin finish, its as though you are holding a real spellbook in your hand, though you would be wrong. You are actually holding a book of eighteen stories about witches and witchcraft that have not previously been published by the likes of Sherrilyn Kenyon, Rachel Caine, Kelley Armstrong, Chenya Burke, Amber Benson, Kristin Dearborn and Kat Howard.
This collection surprisingly doesn't come with an Introduction but does come with an explanation as to who the authors are and what the editors did before at the back of the book. In Hex Life, the stories are very interestingly themed; Kelly Armstrong's Black Magic Momma: An Otherworld Story has Eve Levine a single mum fleeing an evil ex who wants to track down and kill her and her daughter. While Rachel Caine's Home: A Morganville Vampires Story shows us Oliver, the owner of a coffee shop in Morganville with trouble brewing as a rival coffee shop as just opened across the street and he's even more annoyed at who the lady is who owns it once she is revealed.
All the stories have a modern versus the past feel about them but they are prefect reading for Halloween time.
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