Hexed
The Iron Druid Chronicles • Book 2
by Kevin Hearne
Why You'll Love This
Atticus O'Sullivan is 2,000 years old and still somehow the most overwhelmed guy in the room — and that tension is exactly what makes this so fun.
- Great if you want: urban fantasy with mythology depth and genuine comedic timing
- The experience: fast, breezy, and action-packed — reads in a single sitting easily
- The writing: Hearne layers sharp wit into a first-person voice that never loses momentum
- Skip if: you prefer world-building over plot — this moves, not lingers
About This Book
Atticus O'Sullivan is two thousand years old, still looks twenty-one, and has just barely survived his last supernatural entanglement — which means Hexed picks up exactly where the fun, and the danger, starts compounding. When a ruthless new coven rolls into Tempe looking to displace the local witches, and a fallen angel develops a taste for high school students, Atticus can't stay neutral even if he wanted to. The stakes here are genuinely high, but the emotional pull comes from watching a man who has outlived entire civilizations figure out who he actually owes loyalty to — and why that still matters after twenty centuries.
What makes reading Hexed a particular pleasure is how confidently Hearne builds on the foundation he laid in the first book. The mythology gets denser and stranger — Coyote shows up, multiple magical traditions collide — but the prose never buckles under the weight of its own world-building. Hearne writes action with real clarity and dialogue with a dry wit that earns its laughs. The book moves fast, but it never feels thin. Readers who stayed for the voice in book one will find it sharper here.
