sarahali 's review for:

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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wow. i have genuinely never read anything like this book before. it was chilling, visceral, enlightening. it made me have some crazy prophetic ass dreams. tagaq’s way with words is unparalleled, stylistically, metaphorically, tonally. idk i’m kind of at a loss here! i’m glad i read this, i enjoyed how immersive and fluid tagaq’s prose was in describing the environment, the people both human and nonhuman, the narrator’s physicality and mental state… i have to admit i was a little thrown towards the end and felt myself rushing through to the end because it was hard to sit with the dark and turbulent feelings that the final couple of turns of the story took. but that’s probably also because i went into this book completely blind, having zero clue what to expect from the plot, not realising it would be magical realism, not knowing who the author was or anything like that. so yeah it was a challenging but also really mind blowing read ! i’ll have to rotate this one in my mind a little longer for sure