Day 115.1: Hex and Witchery

[sunshowerdandelion]

I wish I could've enjoyed Hex by Jenni Fagan more. It's a bit preachy I'm afraid, and really hammers home its points. The premise is very very interesting but it ran out of steam rather, in the middle. It got a little repetitive but maybe some of that is intentional, as probably the mind does loop and loop around when you're about to get killed. The bits I found most affecting were Geilis' life beyond the accusations of her witchery, her polishing of a shell, her paddling as if she were in the sea, her walking around in sand. And also her death, the last paragraph, where her familiar shoots her away.

I'm not sure why, maybe because it is about two condemned women, but my closest antecedent reading of the book is Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, which is really amazing and I should actually read it all over again because I was a bit careless the first go-around. Maybe I will reread it now.