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aylaraysin's review

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challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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ravenpuffrising's review

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dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The tone and identity of the subjects of this book very much relish in the weird and shocking, taking on an unflinching daring with matters that are taboo, gross and for some even inappropriate at times, morbid, and hazy.

It kind of reminded me of a horror intellectual dark academia take on The Craft with ample inspirations from classic luring horror stories including everything from the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe to creepypastas.

Within these inspirations Jawbone focuses on dark psychology of flawed, even perverse, curious, and conflicted women, exploring lines between sexuality, femineity, and feeling alive through pain and pleasure- both physical and psychological. It won't work for most people especially with the mix of morbid sexuality and violence it plays with, but I largely was just rather fascinated with the complex psychology and exploratory ideas here. It's a book that shines in its incredibly unique identity, primal instincts, and intellectual questioning. The vibe and psychology here are enough of a wild ride, yet one utterly unrestricted that alone is enough to make it quite extraordinary and a worthwhile venture.

It's bigger flaw for me was not the extremism with the taboos it plays with (although even as someone who consumes some pretty bizarre fiction it did have me marveling in just how weird and morbid these girls were at times), but that for all its interesting psychology and rhetoric it doesn't quite settle on a true, focused story or ending sentiment for you to take away, becoming a bit muddled. I think a stronger focus or finish would have been the thing to push it above to a truly memorable and impactful story for me. Even so, I accept it's right to be more about the exploration than the end journey. In the end, it manages to honor its inspirations while bridging into something totally its own.

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chainsawheartbooks's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

"My therapist says when you talk out loud without stopping for a long time, and you really listen to yourself, the mysteries end up coming out of the tangle of your subconscious."

If Ojeda doesn’t become a big name in literary horror, alongside the likes of Jackson, Shelley and Poe, then no one should.

Given how literary this book is, it took me a while to get through it, but that doesn’t mean this book isn’t horrifyingly beautiful and macabre.

Each character read so differently from one another, I loved diving into each character’s subconscious, seeing where their biases came in.

I’ve always found tales about cosmic horror and the occult fascinating, especially when consumed together; the aspect of putting an ethereal being into our reality in a way that doesn’t feel forced can be so difficult to do, but in my opinion Odeja handles this perfectly!

Above all else, this tale is about friendship, puberty, motherhood, and the perception of an ideal self.

If you want a slower read that still leaves you a deep sense of horror, a feeling of seeing things in the light and hearing the fluttering of lashes in the dark, then you should put this to the top of your list!

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amessina3399's review

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It took me a minute to get into this book, but once I did, I couldn’t get out of it. The language of this book is as much a part of it as the story. The way the characters are each narrated is incredibly unique to anything’s I’ve ever read, and one could argue the poetic nature of the narrative voice as well. A highly metaphorical book about adolescence and the relationship between mothers and daughters, this book is a very heady read and incredibly weird, but absolutely worth it.

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beraspa's review against another edition

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dark reflective tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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lus's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

What if you were a teenage girl, raised catholic and in private schools? What if you loved your best friend very much but didn't have the words to say it? What if instead of 'love' you used words like 'twin'? What if your best friend fashioned herself a prophetess for a God she built out of creepypastas and Lovecraftian horror? What if your teacher hated you and your kind and what if your best friend betrays you, somehow? What if the worst thing in the world is to be a mother? What if it is to be a daughter? To be a teacher is to be a mother is to be a daughter and to be all of these is to have jaws strong enough to cannibalize homes and mothers and daughters.

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hauntedantiqueshop's review

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

well, I hated that ending. I felt it inching closer and closer to that and still. Really hated it. I wish the story focused more on the weird ass girls and their friendship rather than the teacher. Mostly because they’re CURRENTLY being little freaks and the teacher is a recovering (soon to be relapsed) freak.

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