Book: Such Sharp Teeth
Author: Rachel Harrison
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #20 (A book with a character who does Pilates or Lagree) and the 52 Book Club Challenge Prompt #35 (A character with a secret identity).
Rory Morris has moved back to her hometown to help her pregnant twin sister, Scarlett. It’s supposed to be temporary.
But when she hits a large animal with her car and goes stumbling out into the darkness, she is attacked. And now nothing will ever be the same.
She survives, but realises she is changing. She is strong, craves meat, and avoids silver. She tries to dismiss the signs but she can’t help but wonder if this could actually be happening to her.
Are her loved ones in danger? Or can she find a way to lean in to her wildness? Can her life go back to the way it was? Or will it change forever?
Oh, I loved this. It is funny, sharp and very well told.
Rory is a compelling main character, whose wit and sense of humour make me wish I was friends with her. The dialogue is one of the best parts, especially when you listen to the audiobook.
But besides being very entertaining, there are also so many parallels that can be drawn with non-supernatural women’s experiences.
The idea of becoming “monstrous” once a month, following a lunar-type cycle, which I could relate to both menstruation and perimenopause (not once a month but “monstrous” in general).
The wondering if she should tell someone, because would anyone believe her? How many times are women not believed despite the evidence? And the fact that evidence is hard to deliver.
The feeling of solitude within trauma.
The uncertainty about being vulnerable with someone new.
It is also a story about love and acceptance – of ourselves, of others, and the secrets we choose to share.
It is also a story of life, the choices we make, and the circumstances beyond our control that turn things in a different direction.
There’s a very apt line in there that says something like: instead of imagining all the things your life can no longer be, imagine what it could be.
And it’s so simple but so true, especially when you feel that life hasn’t turned out how you expected.
This is a book that makes you think alongside its excitement, jokes, and laughs. And I think that’s what made me enjoy it so much.
Highly recommended!
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