5 stars! This was completely fucked. Jawbone is a non-linear weird girl horror lit that was as haunting as it was captivating. It's told in broken bits of therapy appointments, conversations between the two BFFs, and from multiple POVs - none who are reliable in any way due to trauma, mental health, and dysfunctional, toxic relationships.

This book wormed its way under my skin and oozed into parts of my brain I wish I could wring it from. There are parts that I hated with every fiber of my being, and yet, with the prose the way it was, and the characters as damaged as they were, and with the horrifying imagery, I was hooked.

I ended up listening to this because the stylistic choices in the writing, which worked perfectly for this, was too hard for my brain to process when it went pages and pages without a paragraph break. I wish I had kept my physical copy cause there are so many parts I want to highlight and annotate. Definitely going to repurchase a copy and maybe I'll end 2025 like I began it.

Reading this completely fucked story.

Trigger and content warnings
Toxic friendship, Kidnapping, Body horror,Child death, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Animal death, Rape, Alcohol