Reviews tagging 'Blood'

What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo

34 reviews

hookerkitty's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia, Physical abuse, and War

_p0ssum_'s review

4.25

Wow this is not what I expected but I definetly don't hate it. Some scenes I didn't like ( Eleanor and Arthur romance plot ) but if you read it fully and understood it makes more sense ( kinda ). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, and Child death

Minor: Homophobia, Miscarriage, and War

dellybear's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is fantastic. It's very mysterious. I can typically guess where a plot is going and what the twists will be but this book kept me interested and guessing the whole time. It has wonderful themes of fitting back into a family you don't remember and how love can twist people into doing highly questionable things. The author's name is Rose Szabo, not Harry, and they are nonbinary. This was their first novel and they knocked it out of the park.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, and Blood

Minor: Infidelity

red_king_137's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

nytephoenyx's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I absolutely loved What Big Teeth. It’s unlike anything I’ve read before. It’s supernatural horror but not quite a fairytale retelling and not quite a werewolf book and… I don’t know. It was dark and a bit grotesque and kept me guessing. I really enjoyed it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Homophobia, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pregnancy and War

Author is transgender and identifies as nonbinary, using they/them pronouns. Certain editions of their books use their deadname (like this one - StoryGraph has it right, but the physical copy was printed with the author’s deadname).

starreddust's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Abandonment

Minor: Homophobia and Fire/Fire injury

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, and Violence

Minor: Homophobia

yaoipaddle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

I almost dropped this book, but I'm glad I kept reading. It has a slow and slightly frustrating start. The main character takes a long time for me to like her. Not a long time to be "flawless" (Neither she nor anyone else in the book is), but a long time for me to not feel like smacking her and telling her to realize what the heck is going on.

It took me until about a quarter of the way through the book to keep wanting to read and about 40% of the way through I really got into it and zoomed through. The book starts slow and a lot of stuff is kind of sprinkled throughout. It feels semi worth it in the end to me, but I still think the beginning was really rough.

I'd recommend this book if you like gothic stories and elements of fantasy. If you like Gillian Flynn books where everyone kind of sucks but there's still intrigue and enjoyment to get even from the characters that piss you off.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia

bookishvicky's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.5

I enjoyed the weirdness of this book, but I feel like I was confused for most of it—it’s fun to be in the dark, but it gets boring and frustrating after a while. I also wish we got more of Rhys and the wolves in general. This was a fun read, albeit puzzling and at times grating (you can only skirt around a question so much until it feels like not even the author knows the answer). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Minor: Animal death and Child death

sssssoup's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Homophobia, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol