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Such Sharp Teeth

Rachel Harrison

3.88 AVERAGE

chichio's review against another edition

3.0

funny reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

And the next day, I will wake up and have to go on. I’ll have to accept the suffering. The regular, involuntary surrender of my body. I have no other choice than to deal with it. What can I do? There’s no telling anyone. No sharing this burden. It’s mine. It’s my body.

Appreciated the whole werewolf thing and how it was used as a metaphor for the many ways a woman’s bodily autonomy can be violated and how there’s a distinct BEFORE and AFTER such violation
Despite having some very beautiful sentences those only ever popped up every few chapters and, overall, the writing style wasn’t my favourite. A little too sparse and simple for me, but I guess that’s a good feature of a reading-slump-breaker.
Almost wish that the romance aspect was simply not there at all because it felt shoehorned in and shallow when put up against the female relationships (especially Rory’s toxic and semi-homoerotic relationship with Mia… needed more of that and less of her with Ian imo)
The werewolf transformation scenes… Jesus… those were brutal but some of my favourite parts.

neens_m's review against another edition

2.75

mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Interesting premise but why is the author allergic to describing facial expressions? Felt like none of the characters had chemistry with each other, which is odd considering how important the sister and boyfriend relationships were to the theme.

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pnw_runner_reader's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

3.5 Descriptive writing style and interesting premise for a novel.

deesboots's review against another edition

5.0

dark funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

doomfaery's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional inspiring slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Parts of this book really work and are great and other parts are just okay.

The Great-
Characterisation is very well done. Author can handle a large cast with ease and everyone has their own distinctive voice.

Frank Discussion of Trauma-
If you experienced child abuse and/or have PTSD, this book will speak to you. The lycanthropy serves as a metaphor and it's done very well, with a frankness I have not seen repeated in many places.

Dialogue-
Characters actually talk like real humans! Love it.

The Just Okay-

Absolutely no one faces any kind of accountability here and it can be frustrating. You get hints of Rory wanting to confront her mom and sister (who gets off way too easy) but nothing ever comes of it. Rory forgives everyone who didn't believe or protect her and it's supposed to represent moving forward for your own sake but it's more so just really dissatisfying and frustrating and even invalidating in a way. Scarlett and Rory's mom deserved confrontation, not just 'I forgive you ' when neither character has done anything worthy of forgiveness 🤷‍♀️

- A little heavy handed on the metaphor
The reveal of who bit Rory was predictable. It could have worked but for some reason it just didn't hit.

- Poor use of tropes
This is supposed to be a horror book and the author slips in a 'mysterious shop owner who knows all the answers but doesn't give them to you" trope that feels clumsy and not fun the way author intended.

- Poor understanding of genre
This is supposed to be a horror book but it's mostly a slice of life urban fiction that wants to be a contemporary novel

- Love story? Where?
Ian's chaacter is plunked unceremoniously into the narrative without build up or foreshadowing. We get glimpses into their past relationship throughout the narrative but when he first appears, Rory declares that she wants him (for some reason unknown to the reader seeing as they've only just run into one another) then they go on a date and she falls in love with him immediately. It's very meh. Ian is a good character but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume romance isn't the authors forte

All in all, it could have been better, but I enjoyed it enough to finish it quickly and it mostly held my attention. Interested to see what else the author has to offer.

Warning -- a looooot (too much, maybe, for readers like me) of discussing of pregnancy, motherhood, and child birth.

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