![]() I'm guessing that out of the 128 pages, 28 was story. Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of devastating twists.A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains. I love my descriptions, but there is a limit, and this book went way over it, making it seem as if the vivid descriptions were the plot while the 'ghost story' was just a minor thing. It was tiring listening to this, and had I been reading, I would've stopped. Kudos to the author for taking the time to find at least one, but most of the time three or more descriptives for a man's face, his hair, or the color of something, the texture, etc. Cassandra Khaws Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of devastating twists.A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a bride and its walls. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only sentences that do not have a description is the dialogue.Įven though most of these descriptions are really vivid, creepy, and amazing, there are too many and they buried the story. ![]() There is limited backstories for the characters, but a tad bit more about the house and the 'haunting', but the story itself is hidden underneath layers and layers of descriptions. Five friends who love ghost stories rent a mansion with a dark history of a wedding gone bad because two of those friends want to wed in a haunted house. I was in search of a new Canadian-authored Halloween book to read during October, and had trouble finding something, as I typically do. ![]()
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