Reviews - The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

5.24k reviews for:

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Andrew Joseph White

4.51 AVERAGE

zoeforeverreading16's review against another edition

3.0

3.5

leylikestoread's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Content Warnings

icebearreads's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

ru_roo's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

emfoxreads's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

hailbits's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sachtextanalyse's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

After Compound Fracture was (despite some flaws and things that annoyed me) one of my 2025 highlights, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth was a letdown all around. The cool premise is brought to a screeching halt by the sheer endless over-explanations, the hammering home of themes and morals and repetition: the rabbit, the rabbit, the fucking rabbit and did I mention that men were doing these things to Silas because they wanted him to be a perfect woman? Aaaarrrgghh!!!!!!! The girls‘ home and cast was also entirely unconvincing (compared to the one in Henrix‘ Witchcraft For Wayward Girls), the interesting parts of the world and spirit work were glossed over, the plot stumbled along and hinged on keys conveniently turning up here and there… man, and Silas snapping exactly once and then completely uselessly… at least some of the trans rep was touching and I did not have to sit through another harrowing „We’re reading validity affirmations off a tumblr page for your microlabel“ scene lmao