Baby Teeth – "Gloriously queer" (Kirkus starred review)

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"Grehan evocatively conjures Immy’s tragic sense of isolation and hard-won self-acceptance."
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Financial Times

The blood

Feeds the hunger

That threatens everything

It starts when Claudia offers her a yellow rose.

Immy has been in love before - many times, across many lifetimes. Les mer

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The blood

Feeds the hunger

That threatens everything

It starts when Claudia offers her a yellow rose.

Immy has been in love before - many times, across many lifetimes. But never as deeply, as intensely as this.

Claudia has never been in love this before either. But then, this is her first time with a vampire.

The forbidden thirst for blood runs deep in Immy. And within her mind clamour the voices, of all the others she has been, their desires, and their wrongs.

A unique verse novel by the award-winning author of The Deepest Breath and The Space Between.

Detaljer

Forlag: Little Island
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
ISBN: 9781912417902
Utgivelsesår: 2022
Format: 20 x 13 cm
Priser: Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2023

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"Grehan evocatively conjures Immy’s tragic sense of isolation and hard-won self-acceptance."
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Financial Times

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'Grehan is not the first Irish writer to push the boundaries of vampire fiction ... Yet Grehan delves much deeper into the risky relationship between vampire and lover, as a means of exploring modern LGBTQ identity for her
young adult readership.'
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Pet O'Connell, The Echo

"By linking vampirism to themes of queer desire and community as well as repeating personal cycles, Grehan freshens an old trope, building both a central romance and lifetimes-long connections that are by turns realistically sweet and thorny."
Publishers Weekly, starred review

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"Grehan’s verse novel skilfully charts uncertainty, temptation and the course of a strange, desperate love."
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Imogen Russell Williams, The Guardian

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"Emotionally rich and gloriously queer."
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Kirkus, starred review

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"A fresh, dark take on the vampire myth and desire, Baby Teeth shows vampires haunted by their pasts and memories, where immortality is not one long life but a broken patchwork of different experiences. It will twine around your heart and bite, ever so gently. I adored it.”
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Helen Corcoran

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"Delicious and unsettling."
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Claire Hennessey, The Irish Times

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"An intense, immersive read from one of Ireland’s most interesting and innovative young writers."
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Sarah Webb, Irish Independent

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"It’s personal. Powerful. Passionate."
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Hanna-Rose Sullivan, Paper Lanterns

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'Beautifully crafted.'
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Kirkus, 'Best of 2022: Our Favourite Teen & YA Books' list

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"Absolutely beautiful."
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Down the Rabbit Hole

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"This enchanting work is an excellent addition to LGBTQIA+ and verse novel collections."
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School Library Journal

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"Grehan keeps the vampiric vibes flowing with this unique, darkly beautiful and emotional read."
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CultureFly

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"...queer vampire stories are still relatively uncommon, and this will be welcomed."
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Booklist

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"This book is heady, it pulls you into it, capturing so beautifully love and longing, particularly between women. A moving story of what it is to be accepted for who you are completely." ***** reader review
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Swear by the Books

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"Baby Teeth is an unexpected LGBTQ+ novel in verse; it takes elements of horror and mixes them with romance, resulting in a changeling of a book that reimagines vampire myths for the twenty-first century.
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Foreword Reviews