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Boys with Sharp Teeth
Boys with Sharp Teeth | Jenni Howell
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We Were Liars meets The Raven Boys in this mind-bending YA debut about dark revenge, twisted desire, and the sinister secrets lurking behind the walls of an elite boarding school. "A darkly delicious spiral where each page makes you crave more." ?CG Drews, author of Don't Let The Forest In "A stunningly lush, utterly compelling, darkly beautiful debut!" ?Ginny Myers Sain, New York Times bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies Seventeen-year-old Marin James has spent her entire life living in the shadow of the exclusive Huntsworth Academy. And when her cousins dead body is found in a creek on school property, Marin knows exactly whos to blame: Adrian Hargraves and Henry Wu, the enigmatic yet dangerously alluring leaders of the school's social elite. Swapping her ripped jeans for a crisp prep school skirt, Marin infiltrates Huntsworth to seek justice. But her quest is quickly muddied by a confusing attraction to her new life, and to the two dysfunctional and depraved boys who somehow understand her better than anyone ever has. When Marin uncovers an otherworldly secret the boys are hiding within Huntsworth's ivied gates, the lines between right and wrong, love and hate, and nightmare and reality begin to crumble -- and nothing is as it seems. Welcome to Huntsworth Academy.
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PuddleJumper
Boys with Sharp Teeth | Jenni Howell
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Panpan

This has been on my ARC backlog for awhile and I thought it was about queer vampires. It isn't. That's on me.

It's a dark academia murder mystery which wasn't very well done. The book is messy. The ideas are good but they got lost in confusing and dense prose.

It lacked depth and the ending was very unsatisfactory.

Thanks to #NetGalley for the #ARC

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Faranae The cover looks like it should be about queer vampires, in fairness, especially with that title. 3w
PuddleJumper @Faranae I'm so glad I'm not the only one that thinks that 3w
MsRadioSilence You‘re telling me it‘s NOT queer vampires??? Im with you and Faranae, how dare they use a queer vampire cover then! 3w
PuddleJumper @MsRadioSilence I think the middle one is supposed to be the FMC but it doesn't read that way at all. I was so into the cover for sad vampire boys 🤣 3w
Faranae @PuddleJumper @MsRadioSilence We've been denied sad queer vampire boys and I PROTEST! 3w
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BookwormAHN
Boys with Sharp Teeth | Jenni Howell
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Pickpick

This was good and weird even for dark academia and once you think you know how it's going to end it does a complete 180. Jamie lies her way into an expensive private school so she can figure out who killed her cousin.
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PuddleJumper I've got this on my ARC backlog, hoping to get to it in October. Dark academia can be a tricky genre 4w
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Librarianaut
Boys with Sharp Teeth | Jenni Howell
Mehso-so

If you are looking for a moody, broody, atmospheric realistic horror-esque boarding school story, this is for you. I loved the way it felt a bit otherworldly while being completely modern, too.

Librarianaut Aaack!! My Litsy interface is not working! I didn‘t mean to tag this so-so…i actually loved it!! 6mo
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AmandaBlaze
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Pickpick

'Boys With Sharp Teeth' is a YA dark academia novel. Marin disguises herself as Jamie Vane to find out who murdered her cousin. The novel was well-written with some beautiful passages. However, I found it hard to engage at points. One of the main themes is the darkness within, how much of herself is Marin willing to give to find Sam's killer(s). 4 stars.

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