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A review by krayreads
Boys With Sharp Teeth by Jenni Howell
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
thank you to netgalley and macmillan audio for providing an ALC in exchange for an honest review!
**i didn't enjoy the audiobook to this. i felt like the narrator's voice was too mature for a YA novel! and her voice was flat and sounded just as bored as i was reading this book lol.**
no one is more devastated than me by this book or this rating. take into account that part of my rating/experience may be because i generally don't read ya anymore. but i had really high hopes for this one because of the premise and cover.
first off, this read like a ya fanfiction of the secret history. it tried hard to grasp the same dark academia and philosophical nature of that book but it failed spectacularly. the characters were pretentious and one dimensional, the main character, marin, was beyond annoying. she was incredible arrogant and useless, yet of course every male character in here was obsessed with her (yawn). i was tired of her repetitive inner monologue. she faked her way into an expensive private academy (which i had to extend my suspension of disbelief to fathom that an institution that highly regarded would allow a student to stay after a check for their tuition bounced lol), to get revenge for the death of her cousin. disregarding the fact that her suspicions of three specific students caused his death were based on very little evidence, she was also the worst person who could have possibly gone undercover for this. she would try to get close to them and found herself falling for them but in her head she kept telling herself that she hated them, that they were all murderers. i couldn't stand it.
the beginning had me intrigued but once i got about 30% into this book, the pacing was soooooo slow. the timespan covers around a month at this school but it felt like an entire academic year. that's how slow it was. and it was just boring! you hardly even meet other students in this school. it's almost as if they're the only students on campus. nothing important or significant happened until the last third of the book. things started to pick up and suddenly, shit is happening everywhere yet none of it was making any real sense. the reveal comes and to me, PERSONALLY, it was absolutely ridiculous and predictable! i found the paranormal aspects to be more annoying than shocking. don't even get me started with the ending. all that work for no payoff.
disappointed in this. towards the end, it almost felt like i was just hate reading it lol.
**i didn't enjoy the audiobook to this. i felt like the narrator's voice was too mature for a YA novel! and her voice was flat and sounded just as bored as i was reading this book lol.**
no one is more devastated than me by this book or this rating. take into account that part of my rating/experience may be because i generally don't read ya anymore. but i had really high hopes for this one because of the premise and cover.
first off, this read like a ya fanfiction of the secret history. it tried hard to grasp the same dark academia and philosophical nature of that book but it failed spectacularly. the characters were pretentious and one dimensional, the main character, marin, was beyond annoying. she was incredible arrogant and useless, yet of course every male character in here was obsessed with her (yawn). i was tired of her repetitive inner monologue. she faked her way into an expensive private academy (which i had to extend my suspension of disbelief to fathom that an institution that highly regarded would allow a student to stay after a check for their tuition bounced lol), to get revenge for the death of her cousin. disregarding the fact that her suspicions of three specific students caused his death were based on very little evidence, she was also the worst person who could have possibly gone undercover for this. she would try to get close to them and found herself falling for them but in her head she kept telling herself that she hated them, that they were all murderers. i couldn't stand it.
the beginning had me intrigued but once i got about 30% into this book, the pacing was soooooo slow. the timespan covers around a month at this school but it felt like an entire academic year. that's how slow it was. and it was just boring! you hardly even meet other students in this school. it's almost as if they're the only students on campus. nothing important or significant happened until the last third of the book. things started to pick up and suddenly, shit is happening everywhere yet none of it was making any real sense. the reveal comes and to me, PERSONALLY, it was absolutely ridiculous and predictable! i found the paranormal aspects to be more annoying than shocking. don't even get me started with the ending. all that work for no payoff.
disappointed in this. towards the end, it almost felt like i was just hate reading it lol.