Hex never meant for the girl to follow him and his friend Tommo into the woods. He never meant for her to fall off the rope swing and break her arm. When the finger of blame is pointed at him, Hex runs deep into the woods and his fierce sense of injustice leads him to a strange clearing in the woods - a clearing that has never been there before - where an old lady in a cottage offers him a deal. She'll rid the world of those who wronged him and Hex can carry on his life with them all forgotten and as if nothing ever happened. But what Hex doesn't know is someone else has been offered the same deal.
When Hex's best friend Tommo wakes up the next day, he is in a completely different world but he only has murmurs of memories of the world before. Moments of deja vu that feels like Tommo's lived this day before. Can Tommo put the world right again? Back to how it was? Or can he find a way to make a new world that could be better for them all?
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Hex wasn't entirely sure how the girl got hurt.
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(@BloomsburyBooks, 4 August 2022, e-book, 272 pages, copy from the publisher via @ NetGalley)
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This is a new author for me. I loved The Worlds We Leave Behind. I wanted to read it due to the comparisons to Stranger Things which I love. It's a creepy book with Tommo and Hex and their friends discovering something sinister lurks deep in the woods and the price to pay when poor choices are made in a moment of anger. The book is quite sinister at times but well written, gripping and hugely entertaining. I loved it.
