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Teeth in the Mist

Dawn Kurtagich (Goodreads Author)

3.69 · Rating details · 827 ratings · 277 reviews

Before the birth of time, a monk uncovers the Devil's Tongue and dares to speak it. The repercussions will be felt for generations...

Sixteen-year-old photography enthusiast Zoey has been fascinated by the haunted, burnt-out ruins of Medwyn Mill House for as long as she can remember--so she and her best friend, Poulton, run away from home to explore them. But are they reall ...more

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Nov 01, 2019 Jesse (JesseTheReader) added it

I read this for an experiment I did on my YouTube channel where my best friend picked out my tbr. This book was straight up CREEPY. I liked having several different story lines to follow throughout this book. It made it an exciting experience and I liked seeing how it all came together in the end. The one thing that I feel iffy about is that it felt like this book was too busy. I tend to like books that are that way, because it keeps me excited, but I think there is a limit and this one passed t ...more

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Sep 03, 2019 Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ Martin rated it really liked it

Shelves: audio, hardback, ha-scary-tbr, horror-etc, own

Buddy Read With Ladies Of Horror Fiction Group.

I have the hardback and love the pics and writing style per usual but they got me to listen to the Audible and OMG! This book is creepy good on Audio!!! The sound effects, the creepy demon voices, the whispers!! Perfect for getting your creep on!! 🎃🧟‍♀️

Happy Reading!

Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾 ...more

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Sep 11, 2018 Dawn Kurtagich rated it it was amazing · (Review from the author)

Shelves: i-wrote-this

September 2019: for those lovely readers asking, yes I do want to give you the sequel to TEETH! Stay tuned!

(09/11) The cover went live today! So much love--thank you bookish fiends so much! <3

(09/17) ARCs are in!

(03/26) There is currently a Goodreads Giveaway running! ...more

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Aug 25, 2019 Shaina rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2019, books-of-the-month, borrowed, br, eerie-spooky-gothic-weird-creepy, myth, events, kindle, my-own-1001-book-list, historical-fiction

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Well, like her previous book, though intriguing and appealing to the eye; this was also hard to follow and disjointed. There are big ideas and concepts that don’t seem to lead much of anywhere. Something will seem to happen only to be easily fixed or ignored. The timelines didn’t bother me but the writing just kept throwing me off to where I had to go back and see where I had left off with that character. It was the same for me in the other book.
I did really find it interesting and I wonder if ...more

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Sep 11, 2019 Bark rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, audiobook, ladiesofhorrorfiction, dark-fiction

“You wield power no woman aught. You should be burned ALIVE!”

I listened to Teeth in the Mist on audio and the production is truly fantastic and creepy but I have also heard the paper version includes lots of little extras and artwork that you miss out on if listening only to the audio. As I’m a wee bit confused and feeling a little dazed after my listening, as if I just awoke from a fuzzy nightmare, I may go ahead and splurge for the hardcover and give it a reread and see if I can clarify some t “You wield power no woman aught. You should be burned ALIVE!”

I listened to Teeth in the Mist on audio and the production is truly fantastic and creepy but I have also heard the paper version includes lots of little extras and artwork that you miss out on if listening only to the audio. As I’m a wee bit confused and feeling a little dazed after my listening, as if I just awoke from a fuzzy nightmare, I may go ahead and splurge for the hardcover and give it a reread and see if I can clarify some things or if I were meant to feel this way. Either way I don’t regret listening to this disturbing tale!

I don’t even know where to begin with this book. There’s a lot to it and words are failing me. There are three timelines but the book mainly focuses on two of them but know that the third is very, very important. Listening to the audio, I found myself getting tripped up in the timelines. There are two girls who make a treacherous trip up a mountain to a sinister looking and for sure haunted house and I kept mixing up who was who and who was with who and their backstories but that may just be me and my faulty brain or because it was on audio. Honestly, I don’t think this a book you can listen to while doing much else. It needs your 100% focus.

There are some great characters here, strong-willed girls with tempers and creative curses and painful backstories. I don’t want to go into the plot too much but when mentions of Faustus, spells, witches, ghosts, curses and the glowing red eyes of a black ram (who may or not be related to Black Phillip!) kept appearing I had no idea where this book was leading me but I sure as hell wanted to follow it anywhere. If you’re a person who sometimes judges a book by the title and cover and doesn’t read the blurb, like myself, you may think this is a monster-fest sort of book. It is not that at all. It is an atmospheric creepfest of the creepiest order. The audio production only enhances that and I LOVED the experience. It takes some extremely surprising turns into the darkest of corners and I refuse to spoil any of them and likely couldn’t explain any of them if I tried.

I’m going with a four for this first reading and may change my rating on a reread. Or not. ...more

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Jun 24, 2019 megs_bookrack marked it as to-read

Shelves: ya-thriller-horror-to-read

My copy just arrived!!

She thick and she gorgeous! There are some really cool pages in here too. Some black pages with white text as well as pictures. This just jumped WAYYYYY up the TBR list!

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Mar 20, 2019 Ellen Gail rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, kindle, historical-fiction, conflicted-feels, retellings

Both haunting and baffling, Teeth in the Mist falls somewhere between two and three stars. And I have simultaneously zero thoughts and every thought possible about it.

“Tempt a girl to evil using evil. How quaint your faith must seem to you. To bend it so.”

Let's start with the positives: a BIG one is originality. Yes, it's a loose interpretation of Dr. Faustus, but it's an elaborate and ambitious tale of it's own. Dawn Kurtagich is fucking fearless, unafraid of mixing three timelines, letters ...more

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May 29, 2020 Candace Robinson added it

I really, really loved And the Trees Crept In, so I had to read this bad boy! It was another very atmospheric read but this time with past and present POVs!

Let me start with Roan! I seriously loved her POV, and that one was a five star read for me! Her story was addicting, and there was all kinds of weird crap going on, and the romance parts were on point! Rapley was so adorable and lovely! Just brilliant!

I didn't connect with Zoey's POV chapters as much, only because I'm kind of confused by the ...more

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May 08, 2020 Amy Imogene Reads rated it it was ok

Shelves: read-in-2020, ya-speculative

2.5 stars

This review is going to be such a bummer, because I was so freaking pumped for this and love this author's previous books.

Concept: ★★★★
Plot/Logic: ★★
Enjoyment: ★

Given how ?!?!?!? I felt while reading this, I'm not rephrasing the summary here—welcome to a reaction review.

Teeth in the Mist was supposed to be so cool. We've got 3 different timelines of women all tied to this ancient house in the remote UK. There's a demonic angle, and in amazing Kurtagich style there were a bunch of docu ...more

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Oct 14, 2019 Julie Zantopoulos rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2019, own-it

This was NOT an easy read but it was a really interesting one. This book is a mix of House of Leaves in YA form and the exorcist...maybe? It's about the devil, it's about blood magic, and it's about generational terrors. This is a VERY dark YA novel, a very bloody and gruesome one but it did work for me.

Trigger warnings for death of a parent, abuse by parent, torture, branding, drowning, cutting, blood magic, sexual assault, parental neglect, the depiction of stillborn death and death of childr ...more

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Jun 26, 2019 Mogsy (MMOGC) rated it liked it

Shelves: audiobook, retellings, review-copy, young-adult, horror, historical-fiction

3 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum https://bibliosanctum.com/2019/06/30/...

I’ve read all of Dawn Kurtagich’s YA horror novels so far and Teeth in the Mist is probably the most elaborate but also the toughest to get into. A loose retelling of the legend of Faust who sells his soul to the devil for knowledge and power, the novel weaves together past and present to tell the stories of sixteen-year-old Zoey Root, a modern-day high school student, as well as Roan Eddington, a young woman who lived nea 3 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum https://bibliosanctum.com/2019/06/30/...

I’ve read all of Dawn Kurtagich’s YA horror novels so far and Teeth in the Mist is probably the most elaborate but also the toughest to get into. A loose retelling of the legend of Faust who sells his soul to the devil for knowledge and power, the novel weaves together past and present to tell the stories of sixteen-year-old Zoey Root, a modern-day high school student, as well as Roan Eddington, a young woman who lived nearly 170 years before.

In 1851, Roan finds herself moving into Mill House, a remote mansion in the Welsh mountains owned by her new guardian Dr. Maudley following the death of her father. It is said that the house is haunted by the ghost of its architect’s wife, who was burned at the stake as witch. When Roan arrives, she discovers others around her age at the mansion, including Rapley, Maudley’s adopted son, as well as Emma and Seamus, Irish siblings who are also wards of the doctor. Together they find that Mill House is also home to something more sinister with roots to an ancient secret.

Shifting gears to the present day, Zoey has always held a fascination for the burned-out ruins of Medwyn Mill House, and not only because of its atmosphere and intriguing history. Years before, her father made a research trip there to learn more about the circumstances behind his birth, only to return a shadow of himself, having lost his mind and most of his memory. Like him, Zoey also possesses supernatural gifts—which come at a high cost. By retracing the steps her father took, she is determined to find out what happened in the hopes of getting some answers for them both.

Spread out in between Zoey and Roan’s perspectives is also a third point-of-view, presented to us in the form of diary entries written by a sixteenth century woman named Hermione. Newly married to a man with plans to construct the largest water mill in the area, her writings reveal clues from the past about the unsettling provenance of Mill House.

All these disparate and complicated threads are pulled together in an organized enough manner, though I won’t lie, it made for a rather dull, sluggish beginning. The first half of the novel sought to establish the three characters, separated by the centuries. It’s difficult to tell at first how their storylines are related, but in time their connections are revealed, and mainly, they have to do with Mill House and the man who built it. Then, of course, there are the allusions to Faust and his infamous deal with the devil. In addition to exploring this theme, the early plot also attempts to expand upon the classic story by moving beyond the basics.

Still, despite the lackadaisical pacing of the first half, Teeth in the Mist intrigued me with the interplay between its three timelines. Dawn Kurtagich is fast becoming a well-known name in YA horror, not only establishing herself as an authority when it comes to creating atmospheric settings but also a creative genius when it comes to presentation—as in how to play with the structure and format of a story to make it compelling and fun for the reader. For example, these methods were used in her last novel And the Trees Crept In to a great extent, where coming across disjointed prose and different font sizes and styles on the same page in order to portray the unraveling sanity of the main character was fairly common. It’s meant to pull you in and make you feel more immersed, and it’s very effective.

I also think the story picks up in the second half, as the links between the three women became more apparent and dynamic. Because of the constant shifts, however, I didn’t feel that Teeth in the Mist was quite as creepy or moody, possibly because keeping up with all the moving parts was also a lot more demanding on my attention and drained my mental energy.

Still, overall I enjoyed the book. I’ve had several busts this year already when it comes to horror YA, and at the very least I wasn’t disappointed in Teeth in the Mist even though it is probably not Kurtagich’s best. That honor still belongs to The Dead House, but I will still rabidly look forward the author’s books and I’m eager to see what she’ll write next. ...more

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Oct 22, 2019 Trina (Between Chapters) rated it did not like it

Shelves: 2019, horror, supernaturals, young-adult, audiobooks, historical

The audiobook was a fantastic production. Multiple skilled narrators, music, sound effects. You can tell it was crafted with passion.

Unfortunately, I hated the actual story. Just like her first book, there are parts that didn't feel necessary to the story. Too many focus points meant too many open threads at the end. I didn't enjoy how the 4 timelines wove together, not enough payoff for me.

I think I would have enjoyed this more if it had focused on only 1 pov, as the isolation of And The Trees ...more

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Aug 05, 2019 Laurie rated it it was amazing

All hail the new queen of goth romance and YA horror! This book is that rarest of things - something truly unique (it harkens back to goth classics of literature like Jane Eyre and Rebecca but is infused with a witchy, feminist sensibility that completely reconfigures the genre). READ THIS BOOK IN PHYSICAL FORM or you'll miss the GENIUS use of font/page color/graphics to build atmosphere and tension (one of my favorite things about this author's writing). And the romance - sweet lord, Dawn Kurta ...more

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Jul 16, 2018 Ellie (faerieontheshelf) marked it as to-read

BASED ON FAUSTUS AIIIYEEE

“epic horror-fantasy” okay this is my favourite genre crossed with my least favourite genre because I’m an actual pansy? And this actually sounds terrifying?

also I’m not fond of the cover - the publisher could’ve done so much better and we all know this, there was floods of potential

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Oct 05, 2019 Kimberly rated it liked it

Shelves: atmospheric, haunting, paranormal, psychological-horror, witch, books-i-own, death, occult, supernatural, wow

3.5 Stars.

TEETH IN THE MIST, by Dawn Kurtagich is a dark, atmospheric tale that focuses on three separate timelines: The 1500's, the 1850's, and present. I had no problem in following along the different characters/years, and enjoyed the one set in the 1850's the most. The characters were the most "focused" on in this part, so they stood out the best. I loved the attitudes, suspicions, questions raised, and .... abilities that were brought into play.

For the majority of this book, I would have sa ...more

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Jul 26, 2019 Latasha rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-books, books-i-own, horror, tosh-s-picks-2019

4.5 stars

OMG!! THIS AUDIO BOOK! forget yesterday, you needed this audio book last month! The cast of narrators is so freaking amazing. they REALLY get into reading this phenomenal story. the added sound effects and ambient noises is like sprinkles on top of the best birthday cake ever.
there is multiple stories going on at once, the story of Roan and Zoey mostly. they are tied together by Mill House. There is some other characters but they are the 2 main story lines. Between the narrators ...more

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May 03, 2019 Cass rated it really liked it

a little boring in the middle but it really picked up at the end

v v good

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Nov 08, 2019 Kitkat rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

There's got to be a sequel to this amazing book! I loved this book so much! It reminded me of The Dead House and The asylum by Madeline Roux. I need a sequel. PLEASE!! AAAHHH I loved this book so much!

Okay, I loved the audiobook! the voice actor was amazing and the music in it was beautiful. It took me forever to listen to it but I loved it so much!

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Jan 22, 2019 Rory Power added it

CREEPY and INTRICATE and SO WELL DONE you want this one

roan is...... my daughter i love her

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Jun 27, 2019 Kelsea added it

Shelves: reviewed, audiobook

This is a tough book for me to rate, because I feel torn about it.

On one hand, it is ABSOLUTELY creepy, just as promised. For most of the book, I read a paper ARC and listened to the audiobook at the same time and let me tell you - the audiobook is performed phenomenally well! It is full cast and includes creepy whispers, background music, sound effects, and excellent narration. Listening definitely upped the creep factor for me. But the paper book boasts its own special features. It has old-tim This is a tough book for me to rate, because I feel torn about it.

On one hand, it is ABSOLUTELY creepy, just as promised. For most of the book, I read a paper ARC and listened to the audiobook at the same time and let me tell you - the audiobook is performed phenomenally well! It is full cast and includes creepy whispers, background music, sound effects, and excellent narration. Listening definitely upped the creep factor for me. But the paper book boasts its own special features. It has old-timey letters, word poetry (creative use of spacing, etc.), different fonts, illustrations, and more. I've heard the finished copy has even more of these. So I can't really recommend one format over the other - this is one where I think it's really worthwhile to get both (or buy one and borrow one from the library), for the full experience! If you've read and listened to any of the Illuminae books, you'll understand what I mean.

I buddy read this with two friends and we were all pretty creeped out throughout. Let me tell you. Listening to this book on headphones, alone in a dark room at night with low lighting... eeek! Didn't help that my baby cried and I had to go get her from down the dark hall. Heh. My friends had similarly creepy experiences and thoughts while reading.

From there, well - there are three timelines, each with a different POV character. That is a very, very hard writing element to pull off, and I commend Kurtagich for tackling it. She does a fairly good job. Roan's story is the main POV, with Zoey's secondary and Hermione's brief and dispersed, though diary entries only. Each perspective was distinct and I didn't have any trouble keeping them straight (which is always a risk with this type of story).

However, that's not to say the story isn't confusing. There is a LOT going on and a lot of characters. It's definitely worth slowing down or paying really close attention at the start, when you're gaining your bearings as a reader. This is by no means a simple read. It's really easy to miss things, so this is best read/listened to without other distractions.

On to the story itself. I was pulled in by the mystery and enjoyed uncovering the plot! The characters were interesting and suited both the plot and each respective time frame. A lot happens and there are so many elements to the story.

The parts I had the hardest time with were all at the end. There were some things in the book that were just... too skeevy for me. Especially in a YA book. And I found the ending confusing. To me, the ending felt like the end of a first book in a series, where you expect the rest of the wrap-up to happen in a sequel. As far as I know, Teeth in the Mist is standalone? But if anyone has information otherwise, let me know, because that would change the reading experience for me.

Overall, if you couldn't tell already from my overuse of the word, creepiness is the main strength of the book. Dawn Kurtagich is really, really good at it. Her writing is excellent and I also appreciate that she's tackled an incredibly difficult story format and done so well. I will definitely read more from her in the future, even if her tastes run darker than mine. If you're looking for something that'll give you the feel of a scary story told by the campfire on a dark night, you'll love the vibes of this book.

Free advanced copy provided by The NOVL / Little Brown Young Readers in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. ...more

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Sep 28, 2019 Patty (IheartYA) rated it liked it

Odd, strange, unusual. Dark, sinister, twisted. Confusing. I wanted to like this so much, but it didn't make much sense. The writing style is like a puzzle box full of corner pieces, impossible to put together and get the full picture. The premise had heart, the artwork and effects were a unique touch, and the creep factor was definitely there, so that is why I am generously giving 3 stars. (I hadn't realized this book was by the same author of As The Trees Crept in. That book was disjointed but ...more

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Aug 01, 2019 Samm | Sassenach the Book Wizard rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2019

Cool. I'm not gonna sleep tonight. All I'll see is a shadow in the corner of my room on a rocking chair! The audiobook gave me the eeby geebies with the devil whispering and stuff. I read my first HORROR! I read Sawkill but it was more of a paranormal mystery. This was a HORROR and I liked it!

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Sep 23, 2019 Cassandra (Thebookishcrypt) rated it really liked it

Shelves: on-my-shelves, review-copies, arcs, doubles-on-my-shelves, books-from-rep-boxes, summer-2019-haul, audiobooks

*ARC provided by author and publisher in exchange for an honest review*
"You are the torch in my night, ____."
(Name removed due to spoilers but ugh that line made me choke with emotion.)
TW: Self-harm
My.
Mind.
Is.
Blown.
Dawn never ceases to amaze me. I'm always overwhelmed -lowkey intimidated-when it comes to books weaving more than one time period at a time but I should've known Dawn would make me get over it.
This book follows Roan in 1851 and Zoey in the present. There are also letters from a thir *ARC provided by author and publisher in exchange for an honest review*
"You are the torch in my night, ____."
(Name removed due to spoilers but ugh that line made me choke with emotion.)
TW: Self-harm
My.
Mind.
Is.
Blown.
Dawn never ceases to amaze me. I'm always overwhelmed -lowkey intimidated-when it comes to books weaving more than one time period at a time but I should've known Dawn would make me get over it.
This book follows Roan in 1851 and Zoey in the present. There are also letters from a third character before Roan's time but I'll leave them a mystery.
Roan is one of the newest wards at Mill House (a property on an infamous mountain) and I loved how Dawn tackled her story line. We weren't given her full backstory off the bat, but we had to work for our morsels of information to her past. It made me want to keep reading just for that but it also helped that everything else intrigued me to no end.
Zoey is in search for answers after a family member visits Mill House and comes back a different person. She makes it her mission to follow in their footsteps and things start happening after that. I loooooooved ZOEY!!!!!! My goodness, I loved her voice so much that I would follow her story for the rest of her life if I could. I couldn't pinpoint why I loved her so much but I was attached and I wasn't about to question it.
I couldn't relate to Roan the way I did with Zoey but I appreciated them both equally. Both of their story lines were too interesting to ignore.
Quick disclaimer, I listened to the audiobook while I followed along with the hardcover and I'll tell you this now- that is the BEST way to experience this book! Since the physical book is written in mixed media format (journal entries, letters, illustrations, text messages, etc.), you'd be missing out if you only listened to it. This is officially my number 1 favorite audiobook ever and I don't see any other taking its place. The ambiance and the voices were absolutely breathtaking. The amount of work that was put into it was mind-blowing. I don't even know what I'm going to do now... I don't want to go back to 'normal' audiobooks haha.
This book demanded my complete attention whenever I cracked its spine open and my heartbeat never failed to accelerate in every scene. Even when nothing was happening, I couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was around the corner. Dawn is an expert at hooking you and never letting you go until she sees fit.
The only reason this wasn't a full 5 stars for me was because it didn't really pick up until past the halfway point and that bummed me out a little bit. Don't get me wrong. I was intrigued from the very first page, but the pacing wasn't as fast as I'd have liked it to be.
I was also more interested in Zoey's point of view for the first half, but once I hit the end of part 3 -out of 6- both POV's had my full attention.
Other than that, this book was too beautiful and disturbing for words. I can't remember the last time I was this disturbed, if ever, and I am not surprised. Dawn is one of my favorites for a reason!
Oh, and one last thing...
THAT ENDING!!!!!
AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
I. NEED. A. SEQUEL!!!!!!!!

4.8/5 stars! ...more

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Oct 12, 2019 Andy rated it liked it

Shelves: 2019-read

3.5/5

This was a fucking weird ass book. But you must expect that with Dawn Kurtagich. I read her other book The Dead House and it was equally as creepy. Both are also told in a very interesting format. The full cast audio for Teeth in the Mist was incredible, especially the male narrators.

We follow three young women separated by time, but their stories manage to intersect regardless. Zoey has always been obsessed with witches and the abandoned Medwyn Mill House. She takes her best friend, Poult ...more

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May 31, 2019 Shanah rated it it was amazing

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When I read the last sentence, I closed the book and stared at it in my lap for a solid minute. All I could think was “What the hell did I just read?”…. but in the best way possible! This book was HIGHLY addicting. Maybe even bordering on obsessive and hypnotic! None of which I was expecting. This book was such a surprise!

Let me first warn you that this book was REALLY hard to get into. I almost DNF’d it with For this review and many others, please visit - https://bionicbookwormblog.wordpress.com

When I read the last sentence, I closed the book and stared at it in my lap for a solid minute. All I could think was “What the hell did I just read?”…. but in the best way possible! This book was HIGHLY addicting. Maybe even bordering on obsessive and hypnotic! None of which I was expecting. This book was such a surprise!

Let me first warn you that this book was REALLY hard to get into. I almost DNF’d it within the first 40 pages because I was so dang confused! So I’ll start with explaining the basics in the hopes that it clears things up for you and makes it an easier start. We get 3 “perspectives” that span from the 1500’s until current day. First we have Zoey, who is our present day perspective. She sees dark figures and has abilities to “conjure” along with her father. But their conjuring comes at a price. Her’s is truth and blood. Her fathers was memory. After visiting a place called Mill House he lost all his memories and now lives in assisted care and doesn’t even remember his family. So Zoey sets out to investigate Mill House in the hopes that she can cure her father. Perspective two is Roan in the 1800’s. After her father, who taught her dark magic, dies, she travels to a place called Mill House to be the ward of Dr Maudley. She doesn’t know this man, or even why her father left her in his care. But when strange things happen and people go missing, she wonders if her training as a child has something to do with it. Perspective three is Hermoine, set in the 1500’s. Her perspective comes in the form of diary entries. She and her husband founded and built Mill House. As it turns out, strange happenings have been going on for centuries. All of these women have a connection. Something dark in common. And this book brings the whole thing together.

Let me also warn you – this book is DARK! I mean reallllly dark….. and I loved every minute of it! It’s a retelling of the legend of Faust. A German tale of a man who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and a long life. But this book takes it to a level that I could never expect! There was madness, magic, languages, abilities, symbols, missing people, priests, torture, death, and so much more! If this could be made into a movie I still don’t think that it would live up to what I imagined in my head while reading this. It was creepy, dark, and generously twisted…… I’m not kidding! I really wish that I could explain in some detail the things that happened but, I wouldn’t want to spoil a single delicious detail. I know I just finished this, but I almost want to go back and reread a few parts because it was just so creepy!!!

And then there’s the format! I absolutely can’t wait until this is published and I can take a look at the final product! Sprinkled throughout are pictures (that were not included in the ARC version), drawings, and letters. I can only imagine that seeing pictures would increase the creep factor! Fans of Ransom Riggs will LOVE this! And then another interesting format was Zoey’s perspective. For the most part, we learned of her tale through journal entries and transcriptions of the videos she took while at Mill House. This reminded me SO much of The Blair Witch Project movie. The snapshots of what she was seeing, journal entires with what she was feeling, the conflict between friends, the madness and distrust…. Each perspective gave us something totally different and brought so many layers to this story. Between the enormity of the plot itself, the span of time, and the different ways this story was told, this is one of the most layered and complicated books I’ve ever read! And being that these three women were from very different periods of time, the author did a great job with the differences in language, dress, and social interaction.

I really wish I could say more! I could go on forever about this book but I don’t want to ruin the reading experience for anyone! I finished this in less than 48 hours…. I couldn’t stop reading and I NEEDED to know what was happening!

Thank you so much to Little Brown and Hachette Book Group Canada for the chance to read this in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own and are uninfluenced. ...more

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Aug 30, 2019 Tonya (Rustic Book Reviews) rated it it was amazing

I noticed I rated this a 4 star... After thinking on this and I keep wanting to reread and I talk to everyone about this book - I am changing it to a 5 star. This book was great.

Trigger Warning: Demonic sounds in the audiobook, Death, Gore, Creepy factors, Cutting, self-harm.

I took a few days to dwell on this one! I really enjoyed the book but I had to take a moment and wrap my head around the timelines and how they all came together. I am going with a 4.5 star on this. I think the timelines th ...more

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Jun 21, 2019 Amber (The Book Bratz) rated it liked it

Shelves: 2019-reads, reviewed, young-adult, horror

The full review + more can be found at The Book Bratz

*Trigger Warning: This book does contain a scene with self harm.*

I'm on a horror novel kick lately, so I was super excited when my library got a copy of Teeth in the Mist. I've seen so many people say how creepy and dark and fantastic this book was so I couldn't wait to get my teeth into it. (Ha, see what I did there? Teeth.) I've loved Dawn's previous novels so I figured I was hitting a home run with Teeth in the Mist but quite honestly, I'm ...more

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Jun 30, 2019 Sam (she_who_reads_) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

If you’re looking for a really creepy and gruesome horror novel- then look no further! I listened to the audiobook and let me tell you- it is phenomenally well done! Lots of spooky sound effects, whispering demonic voices...basically don’t listen to this alone at night 😂 I will say, I wish I also had a physical copy to read along with because not only does the physical copy have illustrations and other little extras, but I truely had a hard time keeping up with everything that occurred at the en ...more

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Nov 07, 2019 Laura Thomas rated it really liked it

I’ve been struggling on how to write my review for this. So much I can’t tell. There are a few different POVs to follow and I did get a bit confused there. Other than those bumps in the road, I couldn’t put this down. It had a brooding, dream like quality to the telling.

I’m all for books with an isolated setting and anticipated some hard times for these characters. Hard was putting it mildly. Whether reading about the past events or current ones, they were in for a world of hurt. Medwyn Hill cou ...more

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Sep 12, 2018 Figgy marked it as to-read

Shelves: need-it-now

2019?!?!?!

Oh well, maybe I'll be more on top of my TBR pile by then.

(Who am I kidding... anyone?)

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Dawn Kurtagich is a writer of creepy, spooky and psychologically sinister YA fiction, where girls may descend into madness, boys may see monsters in men, and grown-ups may have something to hide. Her debut YA novel, THE DEAD HOUSE, was called "an evil and original story" by bestselling author R.L Stine and ""...a haunting new thriller..." by Entertainment Weekly. Her second novel, AND THE TREES CR ...more