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A review by bookishfaye
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Thank you Netgalley for providing me with an e-arc for review!
I adored Andrew Joseph White’s first novel, Hell Followed With Us, & have been anxiously anticipating this novel & was so so so excited to be approved for an arc of it! I absolutely loved this, it told such a dark & moving story beautifully, the representation in here with transness & autism is so so good just as I expected it would be, & the commentaries on transness were very powerful in this & I just loved my reading experience. This book is definitely very dark so mind your triggers going into it.
I adored Andrew Joseph White’s first novel, Hell Followed With Us, & have been anxiously anticipating this novel & was so so so excited to be approved for an arc of it! I absolutely loved this, it told such a dark & moving story beautifully, the representation in here with transness & autism is so so good just as I expected it would be, & the commentaries on transness were very powerful in this & I just loved my reading experience. This book is definitely very dark so mind your triggers going into it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Deadnaming, Confinement, Death, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Blood, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Body horror, Medical content, Miscarriage, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Gore, and Grief