aonoalien 's review for:

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

DID NOT FINISH: 42%

---

I have nothing nice to say about this book. Everything about it made me mad. Dear author: not everything has to be a metaphor. We get it, you know big, flowery words. Unfortunately, nothing you wrote had substance. You spent 90% of the book describing things and yet I couldn't tell you what anything looked like. Because everything had to be a feeling. I REALLY had to force myself to trek on when she wrote "Glib as the first words out of a babes' milk-wet mouth." WHAT ARE YOU SAYING??? WHO CARES??? TELL ME THE TONE. I was so taken out of the scene the whole time that when the spooky stuff did show up, it had no impact on me. The author described the worst things, not to mention none of the characters were likeable or relatable in any way. I couldn't have cared less about these people.

No substance to this book. I couldn't even really tell you what happened in my 52 pages of forced, frustrated reading.