Sharp Teeth

Sharp Teeth is described by Nick Hornby as: "stomach-churningly violent in places, and tender, and satisfyingly complicated...it's as ambitious as any literary novel, because underneath all that fur, it's about identity, community, love, death , and all the things we want our books to be about." I definitely agree on two points in that it is complicated and violent. It is very complicated, insofar that you are basically playing a guessing game with the author on what is really happening and you don't find out until the very end. I like guessing games. I like when an author feels you are smart enough to work the puzzle out and put the pieces together without explaining the details, which I think this author came off well with doing. The second point, that being the violence, I definitely liked. I am not usually into the violent stuff, but this one was just done so well that I couldn't tear my eyes away from the horrifying scenes. The writing in this book was so unique and his own style that I just fell in love. I love authors who are willing to take a risk in their writing to do something different. I get tired of people just writing so straight-forward and the same ole same ole, so that when I started reading this, I was like that little kid that got his/her first two-wheeled bike. He made it flow easily, smoothly, and quickly from one scene to the next. The characters were fascinating, the subject so great. The one thing that did annoy me, was that everyone had a name, but Anthony's girlfriend didn't. I was super annoyed with it because it didn't make sense as to why he'd leave her this unidentifiable person. This is why it only gets 4 stars. Don't be like she is just gal, a nobody really. She played a major role, she was a person, a three-dimensional being. (If she did have a name and I totally missed it when I re-read through, I apologize and take what I just said back)