A review by couldbestephen
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

fast-paced

2.0

In some ways I’m glad this was just a short novel, because if I had to sit through a whole 300 page book to get to the disappointing ending, I wouldn’t have. I would have DNFed this book. 5 friends with history meet at haunted house, become victimized by ghosts. Very tropey, not developed well, and the writing style was pretentious. Very purple prosey. And as someone who loves a bit of extravagant, artistic writing, it hurt to see it not utilized well here. The characters were flat. Besides the main character being depressed and a relationship breaker, everything else about her was told to us by other characters explaining to her who she is. The other characters fall into uninteresting tropes, tropes which the author calls out, but want to really address.