Teeth has been described as a modern day fairytale and yes, I suppose that's an apt enough description for it. The book starts with the main character, Rudy, moving to an island where they have magical fish which can keep people alive and it only gets weirder from there. He befriends a merman fishboy by the name of Teeth and the rest of the story is about the problems of that friendship. Well, I say 'befriends'. The relationship is actually hinted to be much stronger than that and one of the stranger parts of the book is the fact Rudy seems to lack any concern about being in love with a fishboy. Well, that and the fish rape.
Yeah. There's fish rape in this. Just go with it.
Anyway, my point is Teeth is a weird book. It's surprisingly dark in parts by which I mean, the darker side doesn't really mesh well with the rest of the story. Having said that, the story on the whole is really dark so maybe it's the writing style which doesn't work so well. Either way, I enjoyed the darkness but something wasn't quite right. Also the main character was never quite horrified enough by what was happening to Teeth so maybe that was part of the issue too.
This is a dreamy little book though and one I think it's very easy to enjoy if you like that sort of thing. The characters are more realistic than most tend to be in this style of fantasy/fairytale and that is quite impressive in itself. The blurb is a little vague but essentially, if you love fantasy stories with a fairytale-esque feel then I see no reason why you shouldn't enjoy this book
Overall Score:
.5
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