Hi friends! So today I'm going to be doing a review on "The Spirit Bares Its Teeth" by Andrew Joseph White. This review is going to be short and sweet (like the title suggests) and spoiler free (however there will be the Goodreads synopsis in this and sometimes it can contain spoilers so please keep that in mind!)
"Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.
London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet - eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen - year - old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he'll be married by the end of the year. It doesn't matter that he's needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; that he is a boy, not the girl the world insists on seeing.
After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness - a mysterious disease sending violet - eyed women into madness - and shipped away to Braxton's Sanitorium and Finishing school. The facility is cold, the instructors merciless, and the students either bloom into eligible wives or disappear. So when the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton's innards and expose its rotten guts to the world - as long as the school doesn't break him first.
I received this book as an ARC from Netgalley, however all opinions are my own.
So the reason I wanted to read this book is because I'm trying to consume as much LGBTQIA+ media this year and honestly, I applied for all of the books Andrew had available. As you saw in my last review, I felt a bit meh about "Hell followed with us" so I didn't know how I was going to feel about this one but wanted to give his writing another chance. Friends, I am so happy I did. I LOVED this book so much. Before I get into the review, I would like to say, if you're going to read this book PLEASE look up the trigger warnings. The author does put the TWs in the start of the book also but I was not expecting it to be as graphic as it was. I surprisingly love horror, I love when a book grips you and does not let you go and this is exactly what this book did to me. The atrocities that happened in this book felt so awful because they felt so real. Whenever the MC felt panic, I felt panic, whenever the MC felt sadness, I felt sadness. It was really easy to emphasize with the characters in the book, and I found it so hard to put down. I definitely would recommend this to anyone who wants a good gritty YA horror to read, especially if you're in the LGBTQIA+ community like myself.
I gave this book a 5/5 star rating on Goodreads!
This book is already out!
What did you think of this book? Who were your favourite or least favourite characters? Do you have any books you'd recommend for me to read and do a review on? Please let me know down in the comments below!
Have a wonderful day!
Love, Doe!
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