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Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

3 reviews

leahkarge's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Car accident, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Misogyny, and Vomit

little_bean's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

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

4.75

Grabbed this randomly at Barnes and it was an amazing surprise. I was worried it was going to read like a cheesy YA romance novel but it was extremely well balanced and more focused on the MC coping with the string of events going on than the actual fact that she had been turned into a werewolf.
I felt it was well paced with a fairly satisfying ending. A few things weren't wrapped up in the best way in my opinion, but I wasn't left wanting either. 
Overall, my favorite book of the year so far. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gaslighting, Gore, Body horror, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Physical abuse, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Car accident, and Medical content

michaelion's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

You tease me with a threesome mention and don't make it gay?! How dare!!!

This could've been werewolf Jennifer's Body! (And I include that as a spoiler because just after I asked myself "Who bit her? Who turned her?" I flipped to the last page to see what the last line of the book is and... well... spoilers for that.)

There's clearly a lot of love for the werewolf genre but the story was just fine. I didn't make the connection to the larger themes until after the sort-of climax. And I mean way after. Like, I was reading the last paragraph of the book. And no, I don't mean the last page of the story, I mean the last paragraph of the Acknowledgements section.

Usually, writers (of books, tv, and movies) put in a plot line including sexual assault as a gimmick, like "Look at me, I can mention a super serious topic so you, the audience, have to take me serious now too." Harrison doesn't do that here, and the conversations between Rory, Mia, and Cyndi are treated with care and respect, but the connection between transforming and raging and healing from previous anger wasn't really there for me, until I read that last bit about how The Body Keeps the Score was an influence.

I have never really been a werewolf girlie, but I did watch Teen Wolf all the way through even when it got bad. Those are some of the most exciting and fun parts of the book, even when it gets a little spooky scary ew that's gross.

It's also kinda written like there was room given for a sequel? If that's the case, the book is good enough that I would read that too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Body horror, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Car accident, Death of parent, Violence, Vomit, Physical abuse, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Infidelity