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dalek_caan's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Confinement, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Murder, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Kidnapping, Medical content, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual assault, Abortion, Blood, Bullying, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, and Violence
cactuspunk's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Dysphoria, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, Ableism, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, Blood, and Sexual content
ender24's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Ableism, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual content, Body horror, Child death, Classism, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Transphobia, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic friendship, and Trafficking
ciborium's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth (TSBIT) is now undoubtedly one of my favourite books. If you liked Hell Followed With Us, this is going on your TBR.
The autistic, trans, and queer representation in this book is phenomenal. It is beautiful and appreciative, as much as it is cruel, brutal, and truly honest. TSBIT is raw with the experiences of Silas and the other characters' identities and how they experience the world. I felt the most seen I ever have while reading. The story is not gentle with its depictions of misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and all around bigotry — and it is perfect like that. TSBIT hits hard and deep, with the precise aim of a scalpel. It isn't messy, but it is bloody, and gross, and full of wonderful trans rage. Bringing it all together for me was the painfully sweet experience of young queers falling (plummeting) headfirst into each other's arms and being angry at the world together.
This book is NOT for everyone and the content warnings should be taken very seriously. It is not a gentle read. It is messed up.
I only ran into a couple small issues during my read as I blasted through the whole thing in one sitting. For the most part, I think it was an issue with the formatting of the EPUB. I can tell that a lot of the intentional formatting got absolutely lost and trashed in the digital copy, and left me majorly confused until I could properly figure out what I was supposed to be actually seeing. I will be getting my grubby trans hands on a printed copy at any cost. I can only recall maybe three random grammatical / writing errors in the story, which is certainly not a damper on how much I love this book.
TLDR: Read it read it read it, but only if you can manage what you are going to see in there. Keep in mind that a digital copy may have the formatting screwed up, and march onward.
I look forward to literally anything else that Andrew Joseph White will be writing. Very well done.
Graphic: Ableism, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Violence, Physical abuse, Abortion, Sexual harassment, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Transphobia, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence
Minor: War and Vomit