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

dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

Hard to articulate how I feel about this one lads. I couldn't put it down, but also the writing felt very juvenile, the plot predictable and the dialogue just anachronistic enough that it took me out at times. I feel like if this was given to me ten years earlier when I found Fight Like a Girl/The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls for the first time I would've lapped it right up though.

EDIT: this is just a book that makes me say "if I was a teen librarian, this book would be the absolute top of the recommendation pile for any edgy troubled kids that come to my desk. too bad i'm nearly 30 and not a teen librarian, so i'm not really getting much out of it." 
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