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What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo

29 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

thisiscourt's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

2.0

I was expecting a much different story when I picked this up. Unfortunately there was not enough exposition for me to ever get attached to any characters. I know it was supposed to be mysterious, but some explanation was needed. We were dropped into the middle of a story and given no reason to care about Eleanor or the people around her or even the house. There was no real motivation for any of the characters’ actions, and especially Eleanor. I never understood the purpose of the Arthur character. The storyline of the friend at school was never really resolved or given importance. The switching between Eleanor’s and Persephone’s perspectives was incredibly confusing and unnecessary. The chapters were very long and could’ve benefitted from better pacing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

bridge_to_narnia's review against another edition

Trigger warnings. Not in a ‘this is scary horror’ kind of way, but in a ‘oh the author writes like a bigot’ kind of way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Violence

ctara2123's review against another edition

Homophobia and it was kinda boring. The characters were as bland as toast.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Cannibalism, and Murder

linnybear's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

This book is trying so hard to be something it is not and it's very obvious. It's almost like the author had a couple good ideas and tried to tie them together but was helf back by their own writing (which I think is a final proof that having creative writing education doesn't make you a good writer). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Homophobia

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

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

hngisreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Bullying

laguerrelewis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Harry Szabo cements themself as one to watch with this killer debut. An excellent story about being an outsider, family, generational trauma, and love, this had me enthralled from beginning to end and in awe of their writing. Do yourself a favor and experience it for yourself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide attempt