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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I didn't like Cackle, so I was skeptical going into this book, but very pleasantly surprised. The characters were likeable and felt like whole people. The plot was engaging with little mysteries and things to keep you in suspense. The prose was lovely and some of the more difficult topics were handled elegantly with a good final message. Fantastic werewolf stuff and enough body horror to make it feel like a Halloween read, but nothing gratuitous or overly disturbing. Very glad I gave Rachel Harrison another shot.
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.
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