A review by mpginter
Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

trauma manifests in different ways, but the way this teacher

was so willing to believe a teenagers lies that so obviously fed her paranoia

sort of took me out of it. there’s a really long section where a teacher reads a deeply inappropriate essay by a teenager and unfortunately, as i have been a teacher myself, i had a hard time putting myself in the teachers shoes and just kept imagining how i would react if a student submitted something like that to me, especially

claiming to know her fears so well

. the teachers pov then says she found the essay

mostly disturbing because it felt like an adult wrote it, not a teenager. but she’s wrong. the fact that she thinks this only highlights her own trauma and immaturity

. idk, i think i would have enjoyed this more if the thesis, like so many other books like this, wasn’t

teenager girls are just evil and mean sometimes. it just makes me wonder what type of women the author surrounds herself with because wtf.