Baby Teeth: A Novel

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Because the entire narrative would have been different if one of two SIMPLE things had happened: If Suzette had had the common sense to a) video record her daughter’s bad behavior to show her husband as proof or b) if she’d actually tried her hand at disciplining her. Her thoughts and actions are those of a much older person, not those of an isolated, mute seven year old. Perhaps if the child was portrayed as older, capable of higher level of thought it might have been more palatable for me. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs.

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Suzette, due lack of confidence in herself, from her life with a cold, uncaring mom, never stands up to Alex when what this family and demented child needed, was a united front from her parents, people who would put their foot down, and also would do anything to try to really help Hannah, rather than put the blame on any institution or person who would find fault with Hannah, where it rightly belonged. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 77 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Hanna is seven years old and silent which make her thoughts and consuming love for her father all the more chilling. Hanna is creepy, and this book is a fast read but most of the actions felt "gratuitous" and there for shock value to move the story along. He gets to be the fun parent, while Suzette has to deal with a defiant child and day-to-day child rearing.Baby Teeth could fall under a few different genres, but with the overall themes that are heavily present throughout, this book is best classified as a domestic thriller and a psychological thriller. Baby Teeth mostly focuses on the mother-daughter relationship but the theme of family dynamics is brought up all throughout the plot. Baby Teeth’s well thought-out characters deliver a thought-provoking plot about children’s mental health, a topic that is still very much still stigmatised today.

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suzette is a great dramatic counterpoint to hanna, and since the “creepy kid” is the constant in books like this, it is the parent’s reactions that determine where the book goes, so it’s all on her. Alex is a loving husband but once they have their child Hannah and realize that she has some problems, Alex puts Hannah first in everything. Daddy: humming and happy, oblivious to the actual pain his adorable Hanna causes on others around her. in what is either a chilling declaration of intent or a genius marketing strategy, the author has dedicated this book to her father, which cracked me up. While there are not twists and turns that you may expect from a typical thriller, Baby Teeth makes you think and is jaw-dropping the entire way through.It wasn’t, though the end result of the book was one of the better parts of the plot, so at least there’s that, right? I’m not normally a horror fan, but the synopsis for this caught my eye, and I decided to take a chance on the book.