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The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
4.0
This one could easily become one of my favorite YA reads this year. It has everything I like: An interesting main character, a plot full of mystery and murder and queer characters treated respectfully. I´m not much of horror stories myself, but this one was just nice. I´ve been the entire duration of my reading with that sense of oppression (also felt by Silas, and by pretty much everyone who got to be on that orphanage) of knowing something bad would happen... and it did.
This book is a series of cathastrophic misfortunes for which I still don´t know how Silas and Daphne saved themselves, because each and every adult portrayed here is worse than the previous one. As a matter of fact, when they managed to leave the orphanage and everything seemed to be calm, 20 pages before the book ended, I was still paranoid thinking, okay, it can still end badly for the main characters. I think the author nailed the atmosphere. And I also like what he did with the Veil sickness and how he portrayed the blatant discrimination against certain characters just for being different to what society expected of them.
This book is a series of cathastrophic misfortunes for which I still don´t know how Silas and Daphne saved themselves, because each and every adult portrayed here is worse than the previous one. As a matter of fact, when they managed to leave the orphanage and everything seemed to be calm, 20 pages before the book ended, I was still paranoid thinking, okay, it can still end badly for the main characters. I think the author nailed the atmosphere. And I also like what he did with the Veil sickness and how he portrayed the blatant discrimination against certain characters just for being different to what society expected of them.