
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
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Raphael Corkhill
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
A blood-soaked and nauseating triumph that cuts like a scalpel and reads like your darkest nightmare.
New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with the transgressive gothic horror of our time!
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 trans, autistic Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife.
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 Finishing School and Sanitorium. When the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton’s innards and expose its guts to the world—so long as the school doesn’t break him first.
Featuring an autistic trans protagonist in a historical setting, Andrew Joseph White’s much-anticipated sophomore novel does not back down from exposing the violence of the patriarchy and the harm inflicted on trans youth who are forced into conformity.
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This book is brutally honest without engaging in torture porn and is a thrilling experience. I do not know if it would hit someone who does not view the world through this lens as hard, but I hope it would instill a spirit of empathy. The horrific practices centered around a fantastical premise still happen for different reasons, even today.
But take care, this books trigger warnings should be taken very seriously.
an excellent body horror experience
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I love this book smm
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Big fan of AJW, Loved Every Moment Of This!
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LOVE LOVE LOVE
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Was read wonderfully
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horrifically good
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I love this book and author so much
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Good book, relevant story. Good narrator. The rabbit/subconscious device got a little laborious. Worth reading, though.
Solid horror book.
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However, in terms of content, I found a large part of the book to be a diatribe on how it feels to be a man in a woman's body, searching for way way to be expressed. This Was represented in about 80% of the novel. The other 20% was the horror story.
This made me wonder if the author is capable of writing about anything other than their personal journey. There are a lot of young authors these days that fill their pages with their own personal identity story, book after book after book. I hope that is not the case with this author. The talent is too strong.
On par with Wolfgang von Goethe
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as a queer trans person myself, I've never felt so represented in a story. the way each is explained and worded is so beautifully exact to how I myself feel. I can't recommend this book enough
perfect queer horror
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