A review by seobookworm
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Like any good horror novel, sleep does not come easily after finishing it. I thought I knew where the story was going and yet I still managed to be caught off guard by the sheer unending horrors at the end.

I also think it's an insanely brilliant choice to put body horror through the lens of being trans, where the horror is people perceiving your body not as what it really is to start, rather than the classic take of you being horrified by your body. 

Because that's just reality for so many people and good horror done right is like scifi -- it puts you in a fantastical situation to illustrate something fundamentally wrong with our world. And this was damn good horror.
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