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A review by jdieperink
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
5.0
I’d like to thank the Trans Rights Readathon, Andrew Joseph White, and a well timed library hold for getting me out of my reading slump.
It’s chock full of things that need content warning, brutal, horrific, explicitly gruesome, poetic, beautiful, and will make your whole being ache.
Horror isn’t really my jam so I have to work myself up to it, but so far both this and Hell Followed With Us have been so so so worth it.
It’s chock full of things that need content warning, brutal, horrific, explicitly gruesome, poetic, beautiful, and will make your whole being ache.
Horror isn’t really my jam so I have to work myself up to it, but so far both this and Hell Followed With Us have been so so so worth it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Deadnaming, Misogyny, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Gaslighting, and Abandonment
Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria