Overall, I wanted to like 'Nothing But Blackened Teeth' more than I did, but that's not to say I didn't have a good time reading it.
It's a short read, being a novella - took me only a few hours to get through, including interruptions - and the prose itself was strong and visceral. I loved the setting, the concept, the cheeky use of tropes and inversions thereof. The only reason this isn't a four-star review (or even a five-star) is because of the way it ended.
I'm all for leaving things to the imagination, but the ending did feel abrupt and poorly explained. As in... not really explained at all, actually. I won't spoil it, but I was left wishing for more.
I think this book would have done a much better job stretched out into a novel. Give us more of the terror, the madness, the doubt. Give us more of an explanation, even if it's the wrong one. Just, 'more', overall.
3/5 stars.
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Overall, I wanted to like 'Nothing But Blackened Teeth' more than I did, but that's not to say I didn't have a good time reading it.It's a short read, being a novella - took me only a few hours to get through, including interruptions - and the prose itself was strong and visceral. I loved the setting, the concept, the cheeky use of tropes and inversions thereof. The only reason this isn't a four-star review (or even a five-star) is because of the way it ended.I'm all for leaving things to the imagination, but the ending did feel abrupt and poorly explained. As in... not really explained at all, actually. I won't spoil it, but I was left wishing for more.I think this book would have done a much better job stretched out into a novel. Give us more of the terror, the madness, the doubt. Give us more of an explanation, even if it's the wrong one. Just, 'more', overall.3/5 stars.
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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 7, 2023
Overall, I wanted to like 'Nothing But Blackened Teeth' more than I did, but that's not to say I didn't have a good time reading it.
It's a short read, being a novella - took me only a few hours to get through, including interruptions - and the prose itself was strong and visceral. I loved the setting, the concept, the cheeky use of tropes and inversions thereof. The only reason this isn't a four-star review (or even a five-star) is because of the way it ended.
I'm all for leaving things to the imagination, but the ending did feel abrupt and poorly explained. As in... not really explained at all, actually. I won't spoil it, but I was left wishing for more.
I think this book would have done a much better job stretched out into a novel. Give us more of the terror, the madness, the doubt. Give us more of an explanation, even if it's the wrong one. Just, 'more', overall.
3/5 stars.
It's a short read, being a novella - took me only a few hours to get through, including interruptions - and the prose itself was strong and visceral. I loved the setting, the concept, the cheeky use of tropes and inversions thereof. The only reason this isn't a four-star review (or even a five-star) is because of the way it ended.
I'm all for leaving things to the imagination, but the ending did feel abrupt and poorly explained. As in... not really explained at all, actually. I won't spoil it, but I was left wishing for more.
I think this book would have done a much better job stretched out into a novel. Give us more of the terror, the madness, the doubt. Give us more of an explanation, even if it's the wrong one. Just, 'more', overall.
3/5 stars.
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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 26, 2021
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Joshua Ryan
I am at a loss how this was published.
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Samantha VB
Not scary and difficult to follow.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 1, 2021Verified Purchase
Samantha VB
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 1, 2021
But when it wasn't moving forward, when it was stuck like a stalled car in the same moment with the things happening disjointed and for no reason at all, I hated it. They talk about telling ghost stories and extinguishing a candle at the end of each one, for which a room is already set up with lit candles. But this isn't the room they use!! No, they wonder the house and pick another for some strange reason I couldn't work out. This being the biggest example of what I mean, but there are smaller ones. Their conversations, the way the characters move in each chapter, it's all so disjointed, nothing links together. Maybe it's an attempt to make the reader feel as disoriented as the characters, in which case it definitely works... But a little to well. I found myself scrambling to figure out what the hell was happening, who was addressing who and what the hell they were talking about.
The story falls short and its not scary or atmospheric. It had so much potential to be amazing, I'm really disappointed.
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Lo84
Great story but could of been so much better
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 22, 2021Verified Purchase
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Didn't live up to the hype.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 26, 2022Verified Purchase
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A book to inspire fear… that the author will publish again
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 30, 2021Verified Purchase
