Baby Teeth: A Novel

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So I’m going to take the easy way out and neither recommend this book or not recommend this book.... I’m going to leave it up to you, because this book evoked some pretty seriously strong reactions in people.... so if you choose to read it, read it knowing there is some disturbing content and it is 100% not for everybody.... this sapphic vampire novel-in-verse is soft and sweet, tender and dark, and helplessly sad. the desire-filled romance evokes a specific type of fresh, earthy, heartfelt sapphic wonder which i absolutely adore. Upon first glance, this book seems angsty, dramatic, and queer-friendly. As I read on, I became more and more disappointed. For those not looking for spoilers, do not read on. Before reading this book, I was intrigued by the idea of a lesbian vampire romance written by a queer author. I am from Washington State in the United States, so I am all for vampire-centered romance because of Stephanie Meyer's books that came out during my teenage years. In addition to this, Meg Grehan may have taken inspiration from the Irish writer, Sheridan Le Fanu who wrote Carmilla, in the early 1800s, which created the first written representation of lesbian vampire romance in Ireland. Hanna is seven years old and lives with her mom, Suzette and father, Alex. She has never spoken a word until one day she tells her mom she is a witch. The story takes a crazy turn. All throughout this book I was left wondering what was really happening with this child. Perhaps my only complaint is that I think Hanna was a little too young for some of the things she was doing. I think it would have been a bit more believable had she been a little older. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.

For those of you who do not know, Baby Teeth is the story of Hanna, a little girl who is determined to kill her mother. This is a book about a demented, cruel, entirely too precocious to be realistic, mute seven year old girl. It's about a mom who has no confidence in herself and a dad who is willingly oblivious to any fault in his child, placing his child before his wife, when there is any question about the child acting out. The ending could suggest a sequel, especially because it seems like the book ended when there was so much more to learn...when finally things were going somewhere.

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i will say that the poetic style is quite repetitious. some phrases are sometimes repeated like a chant, like a prayer. i could appreciate this because i think it matches the narrator's emotionally-loaded state of mind, but the repetition might bother some people. Due to Hanna being non-communicative and combative, Suzette is forced to keep her home and provide all of the child's schooling and care. This is not a fun read. It’s gripping, but it’s really hard for me to imagine a child who hates her mother so much. I’ve read stories of kids who are physically and emotionally abused by a parent, and still the kid professes love for his or her parent. So to have a child so young purposely trying to do anything she can to destroy a non-abusive mother is extremely foreign to me. Collateral Awards of the 76th Venice Film Festival". La Biennale di Venezia. 7 September 2019 . Retrieved 27 February 2020.

Zoje Stage Thank you so much, Renee! Maybe not surprisingly, it's a bit of a long story. I'll give you the highlights... I gave it 3 stars because it was entertaining but not perfect. I will round up to 3,5 stars because the author deserves it.Baby Teeth is a very satisfying read. More psychological thriller than horror, it’s a finely crafted exploration of the breakdown of the family unit . . .” I nearly didn’t finish this book. I found it to be THAT ridiculous with nothing remarkable about the writing style to keep me hooked. But, as we readers often do, I just HAD to trudge on to see if my mind would be magically changed in the end. It wasn’t, though the end result of the book was one of the better parts of the plot, so at least there’s that, right? 2 stars ** I wondered if a seven-year-old was capable of some of the acts committed. Could a child be that diabolical and manipulative? I think this is one of those books that if you look at it closely, yes you will probably see a lot of things that push the believability envelope…right off the table. However, it ended up not mattering if things were all possible or believable…. I was pulled right into the story. What would you do if your child hated you? Really and truly hated you? Hated you so much , in fact, that she wanted to eliminate you?