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What Big Teeth

Rose Szabo

3.44 · Rating details · 4,515 ratings · 1,275 reviews

Rose Szabo's thrilling debut is a dark and thrilling novel about a teen girl who returns home to her strange, wild family after years of estrangement.

Eleanor Zarrin has been estranged from her wild family for years. When she flees boarding school after a horrifying incident, she goes to the only place she thinks is safe: the home she left behind. But when she gets there, s ...more

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Feb 05, 2022 Cindy rated it liked it

There’s a unique quality to the writing and the gothic atmosphere the author sets up throughout the story. My favorite part is the grotesque way that certain characters’ powers are depicted during the climax. I wish there had been a stronger direction with the plot and more development with the family members, as the majority of it ended up being overly dependent on one character (Arthur) - this made it feel like it should have been Arthur’s story rather than the protagonist’s or even her family ...more

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Dec 04, 2020 Nilufer Ozmekik rated it it was amazing

This is bizarre, ultra disturbing, mind shattering, shocking!

After seeing this impressively beautiful but also extremely terrifying cover that gives you churning stomach, shaking hands, flabbergasted mental state : you truly expect something evil comes out to haunt you down!

You’re not mistaken my friends, this book froze my blood, I keep trembling since I read the impactful prologue! Somebody has wider teeth to create a true bloody massacre!

This book is creepier than entire Tim Burton movies ...more

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Feb 11, 2021 Tim rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: reviewed, read-2021, 2020s, horror

It had to happen. 2021 was obviously going too good in terms of my reading. I'd already hit 10 books, two of which were 5 star reads (which I don't give out that frequently). While most of the books were 3 star reads, there was nothing particularly bad. It was looking like a pretty great reading year with not a bad book in sight.

Then I read this.

Let me state this flat out. I. Hate. This. Book. Very few books manage to actively make me mad while reading them, congrats book, you're one of the fe ...more

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Feb 03, 2021 Nenia ✨ I yeet my books back and forth ✨ Campbell rated it really liked it

Shelves: doth-the-goth, pnr-uf, ya-ya-land, les-arcs-de-triomphes

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Sometimes when I'm reading a book, I imagine the characters with real people, but this was a book I pictured in animation because it has the sort of phantasmagorical surrealism that can only really be achieved in the abstract. WHAT BIG TEETH has mixed reviews because it is a densely stylistic book that copies the moody, brooding atmosphere of 1970s Gothic melodramas and exploitation horror films, and the two books I can really think of t ...more

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May 05, 2021 Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ Martin rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: beautiful-cover, own, mel-s-mysterious-mansion-scare-2021, unhauled, 3-stars, hardback-own, horror-gothic-etc, young-adult

I don’t freaking know!!

I don’t buy very many books any more that I haven’t read through the library first. Once in a blue moon and I’m even skipping book boxes until I stop all together. BUT, this was one of those beautiful covers with an awesome synopsis.

And I’m not saying the book was bad! I loved the hell out of the characters and the weirdassness, but I don’t half know what was going on. Plus, I finally just wanted it to end, when before I was very intrigued.

I don’t think I’m going to eve ...more

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Sep 15, 2020 Melanie marked it as to-read

Shelves: fantasy, horror, ghosts, young-adult

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May 01, 2021 Katie Colson rated it really liked it

**3.5**
What a weirdo. Hecka Addams Family vibes. And you KNOW we love some Addams Family in this house.
It reads like a fairytale of a family where some of them can turn into wolves, one is basically a bog person, some can make people do things with their minds/words. It is all quite odd and honestly a pretty great time.
I didn't end up thinking about it after it was over because none of the characters really stuck with me. But the premise and oddities of the over all story were so cool that I had ...more

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Dec 22, 2020 Amy Imogene Reads rated it liked it

Shelves: read-in-2021, ya-fantasy, arcs-reviewed, ya-speculative, ya-historical-fiction

3.5 stars

This debut is filled with teeth, ominous undertones, and horror-set vibes. A very interesting debut, even if it didn't jive for me personally.

Concepts: ★★★★★
Writing style ★★
Use of speculative elements: ★★★ 1/2
Pacing: ★★★
Overall Enjoyment: ★★★ 1/2

Eleanor Zarrin has been away at boarding school for many, many years. But it's time to come home—she has no choice. What greets her at home is her family...shapeshifters, eldritch horrors mixed with human features, the family friend who eats not ...more

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Aug 23, 2020 Tricia Levenseller rated it it was amazing

Shelves: horror

I should read more horror, because I really enjoy it. And this one was fabulous! Don’t miss it when it releases next year!

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Dec 30, 2020 h o l l i s rated it it was ok

Shelves: ebook, finished-in-december-2020, full-of-characters-me-no-likey, what-the-what, arc, family-focused, grief-or-loss, plot-is-twisty, crime-mystery, ya

This wasn't quite what I was expecting after being hooked by that absolutely incredible cover and then, very quickly after, by the pitch.

I honestly don't quite know what this was. It's such a hodge podge of so many things, and almost feels like twelve different stories in one -- a bizarre mix of everything in the pantry plus the kitchen sink -- and so sometimes I would love a taste, other times I would wonder who thought to mix such things together and why, and then even still I would just be hu ...more

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Jan 11, 2021 Chelsea Humphrey marked it as dnf-lost-interest

Shelves: netgalley, from-publisher, bookstagram-made-me-do-it

DNF @ 39%

I can tell that this one isn't going to be for me, and I don't want to press on just for the purpose of writing a poor review when it could be the perfect read for someone else. My issues mainly lie in the fact that I'm so incredibly confused with what is going on and the purpose behind the story. Hopefully, this gorgeous cover will reel in the reader who will appreciate this book.

*Many thanks to the publisher for providing my review copy. ...more

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Mar 05, 2022 megs_bookrack rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2022-mt-tbr-challenge

**2.5-stars rounded up**

Here's the thing, normally when I finish a book, I like to let it stew for a while before I write my review.

Generally, I will rate a book, write a couple of quick thoughts and return at a later time to compose a full review; giving myself permission to alter that initial rating.

It doesn't happen often, but sometimes I will raise or lower the rating depending on how the story has impacted me more long-term.

Unfortunately, What Big Teeth is the type of story that I feel lik ...more

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Jun 14, 2021 Ellie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, fantasy, stand-alone-novels, debuts, historical-fantasy, ya-lit, gloriously-atmospheric, gothic-or-gothic-esque, fabulism, lgbtqia

This is such a gloriously atmospheric book, complete with old creaking houses perching on towering cliffs over damp seas, squabbling werewolf families and the looming threat of something stranger and older.

Having just run away from boarding school, heroine Eleanor returns home to her strange family and their grand old house tucked away in thick forests on the coast of Maine. Going into the book, I assumed it was a contemporary fantasy, but I believe it's actually historical? It's hard to place, ...more

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Mar 15, 2021 Hilly ♡ rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: horror-gothic

2.5 stars

My love is a haunted house, a ghost possessing his own body, a fire that burns itself alive.

Since last year, after reading Wilder Girls, I’m always on the lookout for something that sounds sciency and weird on that same level. This book is in fact compared to WG (spoiler alert: that’s a total lie). Plus it sounded like a good time (and it was at first), but in the end it didn’t impress me at all. It leaves you groping in the dark for the majority of it with nothing to grab onto. You 2.5 stars

My love is a haunted house, a ghost possessing his own body, a fire that burns itself alive.

Since last year, after reading Wilder Girls, I’m always on the lookout for something that sounds sciency and weird on that same level. This book is in fact compared to WG (spoiler alert: that’s a total lie). Plus it sounded like a good time (and it was at first), but in the end it didn’t impress me at all. It leaves you groping in the dark for the majority of it with nothing to grab onto. You don’t even understand half of what is going on in the family, and then when the main conflict is finally presented to you it doesn’t feel satisfying enough. It’s cliché and drawn-out and boring. From my perspective this book was a slow and tortuous journey that seemed interesting till it revealed its lack of an organized plot.

What I liked about this book was the atmosphere and imagery because I thought they were original. The quirky characters are also interesting and unpredictable in a good way. Almost all of them are unapologetically queer, which made things even better. I liked how that played into the family drama. Though I can’t say I have a favorite; I especially didn’t like the main character and how she thinks she is better than anyone else. Her relationship with Arthur is so freaking annoying I couldn’t stop rolling my eyes. I couldn’t stand the fact that he’s much older than the teens but all of them are in love with him even with that age difference. He’s described as adult-looking with a bald head, so that’s where my problems with the romance got bigger and insurmountable. Sometimes with fantasy I can get over the age gap, but in this book it made me very uncomfortable. The main character remembers when as a child she used to play piano with him ffs #nothankyou. But even without this issue the romance is just full-on cringey. It includes “I’m not like other girls” moments (also alluding to her sister there, wooow) and isn’t that just fun.

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Jan 26, 2021 DeannaReadsandSleeps rated it did not like it

Thanks a bunch to Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, the Fierce Reads team, and Netgalley for my copy of What Big Teeth!

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What immediately drew me to this book was its absolutely stunning cover. A beautiful cover will always grab my attention, and the premise was full of promise that I was sure to enjoy.

But I didn’t.

In fact, this was unfortunately one of the most frustrating books I’ve read in a long time.

Something about Eleanor makes her an outsider in a family of monsters, enough to make so Thanks a bunch to Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, the Fierce Reads team, and Netgalley for my copy of What Big Teeth!

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What immediately drew me to this book was its absolutely stunning cover. A beautiful cover will always grab my attention, and the premise was full of promise that I was sure to enjoy.

But I didn’t.

In fact, this was unfortunately one of the most frustrating books I’ve read in a long time.

Something about Eleanor makes her an outsider in a family of monsters, enough to make some of them fear her. That in itself was fascinating, but because she’s been estranged for years and a major event in her memory has been blocked out, she doesn’t know anything. ANYTHING. For almost the entirety of the book Eleanor is lost, confused, and terrified. Every decision she makes is questionable and her thought process is jumbled from start to finish. Along with that, many of the cast of characters we’re introduced to aren’t greatly explored. Some act like children, some we are given very little on though their impact is lasting in the story, which again, was frustrating, some we never quite learn anything about, some are described but not explained….I know you can’t always look at monstrous characters and expect them to act within a typical human standard, and that's fine! But I needed more than strange, quirky traits. These are characters that surround our protagonist for the entirety of the novel and I can barely tell you anything about them.

Even moments that are supposed to provide clarity can still leave you with a lot of questions because of the way its given to us.

It’s a whole lot of a little bit here, and little bit there, a tiny plot line there, a small memory here…but none of the puzzle pieces really come together in a coherent way.

Frustrating.

Then there was the unwelcome surprise of homophobia that, to me, seemed left mostly unchallenged?? Why? I’m hoping I misread it.

I spent the majority of this book in a cycle of confusion and, you guessed it, frustration. It was a bummer because I was really looking forward to it. I think Rose Szabo is talented and they can create some really unique worlds! Unfortunately, this one was just not for me. Hopefully their next book will be my cup of tea. ...more

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Jan 31, 2021 Angela Staudt rated it really liked it

Thank you to BookishFirst and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

What Big Teeth has to be the strangest book I’ve ever read. I honestly have never read anything like this, and the dark and bizarre atmosphere had me flipping pages to figure out what was going on. First off, let’s just take a moment to admire one of the creepiest, but most amazing covers out there. The cover is what first drew me in to this book and after the first chapter which was so weird, I knew this was Thank you to BookishFirst and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

What Big Teeth has to be the strangest book I’ve ever read. I honestly have never read anything like this, and the dark and bizarre atmosphere had me flipping pages to figure out what was going on. First off, let’s just take a moment to admire one of the creepiest, but most amazing covers out there. The cover is what first drew me in to this book and after the first chapter which was so weird, I knew this was going to be a wild ride.

Eleanor Zarrin, the main character, runs away from boarding school back home to her family in the woods. An incident happened at school, so she did the only thing she could she went back home. Right away we find out her family is not a normal family. She has been gone for years and her family acts like nothing has changed. Oh, and her family? The weirdest, strangest, most bizarre family ever, but I just loved how weird they were. Eleanor’s grandfather, father, sister, and cousin are all wolves, well they shapeshift into wolves. Eleanor’s grandmother is a witch, and her mother spends 90% of her day in a bathtub because she has polyps all over her body. Eleanor’s aunt does not speak at all and spends her days cleaning and cooking for everyone. The strange, but likeable family friend Arthur, always seems to be around and never leaves the property. Her family is a family of monsters. I think the best part about this family is that they are all normal in their eyes, they kind of remind me of the Addam’s family. No one bats an eye when grandfather turns half into a wolf to eat dinner, or that her mother sits in a tub wherever she is.

Shortly after returning home Eleanor’s grandmother dies and her dying words were for Eleanor to keep the family safe and don’t let any strangers in. No one in the family really likes Eleanor, but she wants to do what her grandmother asked so she starts taking control of the household. Her family seems somewhat disappointed in her because she isn’t a wolf like them, but she does have something strange about her. Eight years ago, her grandmother saw her do something and sent her away and to never come back. Since being home, we get to slowly figure out what Eleanor did eight years ago, as well as, what incident occurred at the boarding school.

Honestly, this book was a whirlwind full of just very strange things happening. I think it wasn’t until after fifty percent of the way through that i started to understand where things were going. The story did wrap itself up in a good way and I felt like a lot of my questions were answered. I just had trouble with needing more information throughout the book. I am not kidding when I say so many bizarre things happen in this book, but a lot of it is never in depth. It just occurs and then is never brought up again. I spent the majority of this book confused and frightened, but somehow it worked for me. It was over the top, and I still don’t really know what the point of the story was, but I did enjoy it. If the purpose was to be a completely off the wall book that had me completely intrigued to read it almost entirely in one sitting then it did the job.

I don’t even know if my review made sense, but if you want a totally peculiar book full of crazy and weird characters and an even weirder plot, I would highly suggest What Big Teeth.

3.5 stars rounded up to 4 stars.
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Mar 26, 2021 Valliya Rennell rated it it was ok

Shelves: d-horror-thriller, c-retelling, c-stand-alone, x-reviewed-books, a-2-5-stars, b-young-adult

2.5 stars
**This is a spoiler-filled review**

Yeah what was this? Full disclosure, it did get progressively better but overall it left me going "huh?". We follow Eleanor Zarrin, who just ran away from her school and is going back to see her old family home in a suburban small-town. The Zarrin family has secrets though, for one, they're werewolves. When due to mysterious circumstances, Eleanor is put in charge of the house, she starts making all the wrong choices and discovers that there is so much ...more

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May 16, 2021 Ashley Daviau rated it liked it · review of another edition

Before we get into things, can we just take a second to appreciate how amazing this cover is? I also loved that it was written by a non binary author, I’m always looking to diversify my reading with LGBTQIA+ authors because some of the best damn books I’ve read have come from those voices and they need to be uplifted. That being said, I’m right in the middle with this one, I didn’t love it but I didn’t hate it either. Some parts were incredibly interesting and at times I was thoroughly enjoying ...more

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Aug 08, 2021 Mir rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy

The first 75 pages were amazing: creepy, ominous, poetic, intriguing.

Then she started trying to explain the actual plot and it made little sense and I didn't care at all how it turned out.

By the end I was totally confused that the author seemed to think "family sticks together" was a message supported by this hot mess of jerks who are cruel and threatening and physically violent to one another. ...more

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Nov 28, 2021 Renae rated it really liked it

Shelves: genre-horror, read-in-2021

A "GOOD" BOOK WITH A DOUBLE PORTION OF UNCHECKED BIGOTRY

On one hand, WhatBig Teeth is an astonishingly good horror novel about intergenerational trauma and family secrets. On the other hand, it’s blatantly homophobic. So although I absolutely loved this book…I feel bad about doing so.

First, what I liked. Rose Szabo’s debut novel is a beautifully written paranormal/horror tale that feels like a YA answer to last year’s Mexican Gothic, and it would be a good readalike for those who enjoy Rory Powe ...more

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Apr 26, 2021 Eva B. rated it did not like it

Shelves: young-adult, that-cover-though, queer-leads

This is one of the weirdest books I've ever read, and not in a good way. I found Eleanor to be an incredibly dull lead and the rest of the family far too underdeveloped to interest me. Arthur's story was really the only one that intrigued me, and even then I didn't really care. The prose was nice though. ...more

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Mar 20, 2021 Carole (Carole's Random Life) rated it really liked it

Shelves: reviewed, ya, bookish-first, 2021

This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.

I enjoyed this book quite a bit! I marked this book as currently reading weeks ago but it really only took me a few days to read it once I had time to sit down with it. I have to admit that one of the main reasons I wanted to read this book was the fabulous cover. The story sounded promising so I was eager to give it a try. Once I started reading this book, I was hooked and ended up having a fantastic time with it.

Eleanor goes back h This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.

I enjoyed this book quite a bit! I marked this book as currently reading weeks ago but it really only took me a few days to read it once I had time to sit down with it. I have to admit that one of the main reasons I wanted to read this book was the fabulous cover. The story sounded promising so I was eager to give it a try. Once I started reading this book, I was hooked and ended up having a fantastic time with it.

Eleanor goes back home to her family after being away at school at the start of the story. It becomes immediately apparent that Eleanor's family isn't your normal family. Her grandfather and several other members of the family turn into wolves and her mother spends most of her time in a tub. I immediately had so many questions that I needed answers to which kept me turning the pages as fast as I could.

The book is told from Eleanor's point of view. Eleanor was an interesting character. I liked her but I wanted to know more than I felt like she was sharing. I wanted to know why Eleanor left the family to go to school in the first place but the big mystery for me was finding out what Eleanor was and what she could do. I had similar questions about some of the other family members and Arthur who was more of a family friend.

This book was rather weird. I like weird books so that worked out well for me but I am not sure that this will be the right book for every reader. I really liked the writing and found myself pulled in the story right away. I liked the fact that anything could happen at any time and I was on the edge of my seat just waiting to see what would happen.

I would recommend this book to readers looking for something different. I had a great time with this book and look forward to reading more of this author's work in the future.

I received a review copy of this book from Macmillan Children's Publishing Group via Bookish First.

Initial Thoughts
I liked this book. It was a little weird but I like weird so it all worked. ...more

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Feb 01, 2021 Alex (The Scribe Owl) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, urban-fantasy, young-adult, blog-tour, paranormal, arc, kindle, gothic, dark-fantasy

See this review and more at my blog, The Scribe Owl!

Thank you to Xpresso Book Tours for an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

3.5/5 stars

I've read a lot of books, but let me tell you--this is one of the most bizarre books I've read! And that's not a bad thing. I love books that are so out there that I've never read anything like it before! For someone who can't handle a horror novel, I love a creepy gothic read. This book fulfilled that perfectly! The atmosphere, the urban fantasy worldbuildin ...more

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Dec 13, 2020 Fal rated it really liked it

Shelves: lgbtq, netgalley-tbr, reviewed, gothic, young-adult

An eery gothic experience, Szabo weaves an unsettling story of generational evils, grotesque people and actions, and the ones we let in our lives. It's horror, but Lite. There are many reasons to read this, but the atmosphere and setting was the icing on the cake - the Zarrin's secluded house, the surrounding woods, and the family who sent her away. What Big Teeth follows Eleanor returning to her estranged family after a mysterious incident forces her to leave her fancy boarding school. When one ...more

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May 23, 2020 Karen marked it as to-read · review of another edition

*throws money down aggressively*

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Nov 02, 2020 A Book Shrew rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: arc-reads

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... What an utterly bizarre book. Like, without a doubt, probably the oddest thing I've read all year.

Full review at A Book Shrew

I dipped into this expecting a dark horror, especially given that fabulous cover. However, while the first few pages held some absolute god-tier haunted house imagery, things got weird pretty quick. The best word that comes to mind when I think about this book: kooky. A creepy, kooky, quirky story. Once I figured out that this was more The Addams Family than a ...
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... What an utterly bizarre book. Like, without a doubt, probably the oddest thing I've read all year.

Full review at A Book Shrew

I dipped into this expecting a dark horror, especially given that fabulous cover. However, while the first few pages held some absolute god-tier haunted house imagery, things got weird pretty quick. The best word that comes to mind when I think about this book: kooky. A creepy, kooky, quirky story. Once I figured out that this was more The Addams Family than anything else, things made a lot more sense. This is very much, for the first half, at least, a family of monsters going about their day to day lives in the wake of a family loss.

Zarrin family roll call! We've got Eleanor, who has come back after years away. She seems to be the normal one of the bunch, but something isn't quite right. Then we've got the wolves: dad, grandpa, sister and cousin to Eleanor. They are shapeshifters who are terribly impolite and get into more scraps than should be acceptable. Mother spends all her time in bathtubs, which keeps the polyps on her body in control. Grandma is a witch, dabbling in fortune telling and poisonous plants. Auntie is a huge, silent woman who handles the cooking and cleaning, and Arthur is a family friend. Always around when you need him and never eating or aging.

As far as main characters go, Eleanor was a bit of a tough pill to swallow sometimes. In some instances she came across as kind of ... naïve? Of course, you have to consider her history when you judge her. Her grandmother sent her away to boarding school for eight years. She wasn't allowed to come home during holidays, and she wrote a hundred letters without receiving a single response. Then she comes back home and no one is particularly warm to her. So when you take all that in, no one can exactly blame her for believing every word of the one character with the flashing neon sign above her head saying Don't Trust Me. She has the best interests of her family at heart, and she latches onto the chance to be able to take care of them after so long away, but it often came across as too try-hard. Honestly, as far as main characters go, I am rather indifferent to her.

The plot felt like it took a long time to ground itself and get onto the right path. The inciting incident for this story is when Eleanor witnesses her grandmother's death, but the implications it has don't seem to be felt until much later. Even at the halfway mark, I still wasn't sure on where the narrative was going, since we just kept turning up more secrets that never seemed to amount to much. It was still engaging, but in hindsight it wasn't all that interesting, especially when the main character keeps being shoved aside.

The love interest situation was really just a cause for concern. Or bewilderment. We are given very little of a handle on Arthur throughout. We're unclear on his age, his height, his appearance. All we know is he has smoky glasses and half of the family is in love with him. No, I'm not kidding. On top of Eleanor being interested in Arthur, her sister, cousin and father all chase after him. It's explained later on, but it just made the weird even weirder.

I've written this review out and I still don't know if I've given this the right words. Was it so weird it was good? Or absolutely awful? Instead, we'll land smack dab in the middle. ...more

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Mar 19, 2021 Charlie ~ Happy Pride Month! rated it it was ok

Shelves: dnf

DNF at 30 percent

I simply can't with this book. For three reasons. The plot, characters, and overall flow/writing style

Plot
First off, the plot is so boring.I could predict everything if I wanted to, and it was just so choppy. It was this happened, then that then that. There was no flow, no ease to the writing. It was very unoriginal and I was very excited for this book. Thanks hype, you let me down again. I wanted some dramatic twist that would hook me, keep me reading. And it tried, oh yes it ...more

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Feb 21, 2021 Sarah Jayyn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: horror, gothic-novel, favorites, beautiful-covers, fantasy, young-adult, lgbtq, 2021, intersectional-feminism, loquacious-dog-books

🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁 (five stars as rated in Eleanor's mother's bathtub)

What exactly is Eleanor Zarrin? Born into a family of *mostly* werewolves, one would think she'd follow suit. And yet, she has no fur or snout or shape-shifting ability to speak of. She is no witch like her aunt. Nor is she water dweller like her mother. In fact, no one at all seems sure of exactly what Eleanor is, least of all Eleanor herself. But she's about to find out.
And my, oh my,
what big teeth she has...

What's this, a Gothic horror ...more

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Apr 07, 2022 Fabian rated it liked it

Inventive, it contains enough Tim Burtonisms as to entice the casual reader. Ready for Hollywood, this one! (Only because the plot is foreseen entirely by the first third of the narrative!)

This is The Munsters meets Encanto... (and oh so PG-13!)

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Dec 03, 2021 Shannara rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Took me a while to decide what to rate this one. I wasn’t really all that into it in the beginning, but as things slowly started to ramp up and the mysteries took hold, I got more and more into the story.

It’s well written and the audiobook was a good listen. I enjoyed the narrator’s voice more and more as it got exciting closer to the end. There is such an eerie feeling throughout the read and it only becomes creepier as things continue. Honestly, I really got into this once we start exploring ...more

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About Rose Szabo

Rose Szabo

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Rose Szabo is a nonbinary writer from Richmond, VA, where they live with an assortment of people and animals and teach writing at VCU. They have an MA in English from the University of Maine and an MFA in creative writing from VCU. Their work has been published in See the Elephant and Quaint magazines. What Big Teeth is their first novel.

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“My love is a haunted house, a ghost possessing his own body, a fire that burns itself alive. A light almost too bright to look at, but I forced myself to look as long as I could.” — 12 likes

“I sat with that for a long time. I thought of every person I had met, wondering how many of them had wolves inside them and just had never pulled them out. Or perhaps more horrible: how many of them, in a moment of fear, reached inside themselves for something to save them, and came up empty.” — 10 likes

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