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Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
4.0

Audible Audiobook/Hardcover

This needs to be read in book form as you listen to the audiobook. The voice actor pronounces everything as you’re looking up the words on google. I just listened to the audiobook at first & it wasn’t good enough.

I love the preciousness of the characters. It was one big toxic relationship & I was hoping more of them would die. I also love books that make me need a dictionary to get through (unironically.) Our main girl can see spirits & we’re taken on a ride of Japanese folklore.

The main couple plan to get married in a haunted mansion, at night. They all used to be ghost hunters or stayed in haunted houses or something. They are at a home where a bride had herself buried alive to wait for her dead fiancé to come home. Every year since then, a young girl has been sacrificed by burying her alive. They know their friend can see spirits, but they ignore her when she tells them they need to leave. They just stay around until everyone is keyed up & arguing & getting violent.

Most of them needed to die—well, at least two of them.