Such Sharp Teeth
A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside in this gripping, incisive USA Today bestselling novel from the author of Cackle and The Return. Rory Morris isn't thrilled to be moving back to her hometown, even if it is temporary. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant, estranged from the baby's father, and needs support, so Rory returns to the place she thought she'd put in her rearview. After a night out at a bar where she runs into Ian, an old almost-flame, she hits a large animal with her car. And when she gets out to investigate, she's attacked. Rory survives, miraculously, but life begins to look and feel different. She's unnaturally strong, with an aversion to silver--and suddenly the moon has her in its thrall. She's changing into someone else--something else, maybe even a monster. But does that mean she's putting those close to her in danger? Or is embracing the wildness inside of her the key to acceptance? This darkly comedic love story is a brilliantly layered portrait of trauma, rage, and vulnerability.
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This had so much potential and it just flopped.
Too much family drama, not enough werewolf.
Honestly this shouldn't be tagged as horror, because there is absolutely nothing scary or horror filled in this book. The scariest scene in the book is how awful our main character's mother is and how she allowed for all of her boyfriends to sexually abuse her daughter. Which, this is brought up only a handful of times and serves no real purpose to the story.
Rory's character is described as this "cool" woman that goes out and fucks a bunch of men and has one night stands. And I was like, "okay, now that she's a werewolf, she's gonna need some sort of meat to eat, so let's just eat all of these douchebaggy dudes that hit on her". (Or, you know, go after her mom's douchey ex-boyfriends.) No, that would have made the story interesting. And then we would have had a decent werewolf book.
This started out as potentially being 4 stars, then 3 as I passed the halfway mark, but fuuuuuuuuuck, that cliche, sapping ending. For how raw this book tried to be, it just completely fell flat. Additionally, too much of this doesn't make sense. Sure, Rory doesn't have answers, but I'm talking about contradicting things like all she wants to eat is meat, but then can drink booze and mixed drinks/beer without reaction. But she can't have other foods? But then can eat eggs. Or pizza. It's just ... not explained well enough. She also smokes like a chimney but that doesn't bother her, either. What's more annoying is that she never questions it - or barely anything at all, which is super unrealistic, and makes her harder to connect with the reader, at least for me.
Rory overall comes across as a sociopath to me. She's manipulative of Ian and only cares about herself. She finds out he what, took someone else out for a drink. GOD FORBID. I would have understood her reaction if there had been a kiss or other advance, but she completely wrote Ian off based on one sided information RIGHT after he admitted he couldn't be with her if she ghosted him again. So she ghosts him again. This needed a situation that is more suspicious for me to believe such a reaction. Additionally, she takes people's advice, then goes against it. She makes out with someone else to 'get back' at Ian. She's spoiled, has no emotion other than lust and anger, and I really ended up sick of her.
Let's not even get started on how the hospital would have 100% turned her away from a BIRTHING looking like she was on drugs. For fuck's sake. Too much was dumb and happens only so the plot can progress in the cliche way the author wanted, do not recommend.
Rory overall comes across as a sociopath to me. She's manipulative of Ian and only cares about herself. She finds out he what, took someone else out for a drink. GOD FORBID. I would have understood her reaction if there had been a kiss or other advance, but she completely wrote Ian off based on one sided information RIGHT after he admitted he couldn't be with her if she ghosted him again. So she ghosts him again. This needed a situation that is more suspicious for me to believe such a reaction. Additionally, she takes people's advice, then goes against it. She makes out with someone else to 'get back' at Ian. She's spoiled, has no emotion other than lust and anger, and I really ended up sick of her.
Let's not even get started on how the hospital would have 100% turned her away from a BIRTHING looking like she was on drugs. For fuck's sake. Too much was dumb and happens only so the plot can progress in the cliche way the author wanted, do not recommend.
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